1. Henry Stephenson generally portrayed amiable and wise gentlemen in many films of the 1930s and 1940s.
14 Facts About Henry Stephenson
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Henry Stephenson was born to British parents in Grenada, British West Indies and educated in England.
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Henry Stephenson appeared on British and American stages and made his Broadway debut in 1901, playing the messenger in A Message from Mars starring Charles Hawtrey.
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Henry Stephenson made his film debut in 1917 and appeared in a few silent films, but made his mark mostly as an elderly man in sound films.
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Henry Stephenson came to Hollywood for the film version of Cynara, starring Ronald Colman and with Stephenson reprising his role of John Tring.
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Henry Stephenson specialized in portraying wise, dignified and congenial British gentlemen in supporting roles.
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Henry Stephenson often played historical figures like Sir Joseph Banks in the Oscar-winning adventure film Mutiny on the Bounty and Florimond Claude, Comte de Mercy-Argenteau in Marie Antoinette.
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Henry Stephenson worked with film star Errol Flynn in the films Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade, The Prince and the Pauper, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, often as Flynn's paternal friend and superior.
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Henry Stephenson seldom played dark figures; among the exceptions was the snobbish Mr Bryant in Mr Lucky in 1943.
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Henry Stephenson appeared in several literary adaptions, for example as the friendly lawyer Havisham in Little Lord Fauntleroy and as Mr Brownlow in David Lean's film adaptation of Oliver Twist.
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Henry Stephenson made his last film in 1949, but appeared in two television series in 1951 before the end of his career.
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In 1950, after completing his role of Cardinal Gaspar de Quiroga in the play That Lady, Henry Stephenson retired from the stage.
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Henry Stephenson married the Australian-born actress Roxy Barton on 14 June 1906 at St Marylebone Parish Church in Marylebone in London.
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Henry Stephenson later wed the actress Ann Shoemaker, who had a daughter, Anne Hall, the song lyricist, by a previous marriage.