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Harry Davenport

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American actor (1866-1949)

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Harold George Bryant Davenport was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six until his death. After a long and prolific Broadway career, he came to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he often played grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers. His roles include Dr.

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Gone with the Wind1939 · ★ 7.9
Little Women1949 · ★ 7.4
Meet Me in St. Louis1944 · ★ 7.0
You Can't Take It with You1938 · ★ 7.5
The Ox-Bow Incident1943 · ★ 7.7
The Hunchback of Notre Dame1939 · ★ 7.3
Foreign Correspondent1940 · ★ 7.0
Meet John Doe1941 · ★ 7.3
The Life of Emile Zola1937 · ★ 6.7
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer1947 · ★ 6.9
The Thin Man Goes Home1944 · ★ 7.1
That Uncertain Feeling1941 · ★ 6.6
All This, and Heaven Too1940 · ★ 7.2
Made for Each Other1939 · ★ 6.1
Kings Row1942
Marie Antoinette1938
The Farmer's Daughter1947
Courage of Lassie1946
Tales of Manhattan1942
Larceny, Inc.1942
The Bride Came C.O.D.1941
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet1940
The Cowboy and the Lady1938
They Won't Forget1937
Juarez1939
December 7th1943
One Foot in Heaven1941
Too Many Husbands1940
The Rage of Paris1938
Princess O'Rourke1943
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell1939
Kismet1944
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake1942
That Lady in Ermine1948
Down to the Sea in Ships1949
Wells Fargo1937
The Scoundrel1935
That Forsyte Woman1949
A Boy and His Dog1946
Adventure1945

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Harold George Bryant Davenport was an American film and stage actor who worked in show business from the age of six until his death. After a long and prolific Broadway career, he came to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he often played grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers. His roles include Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind (1939) and Grandpa in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944). Bette Davis once called Davenport "without a doubt [. . .] the greatest character actor of all time."

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United States
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Actors
Type
Actor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1866 to 1949 · aged 83
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