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Harry Davenport 1866 - 1949

Harry Davenport of Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States was born on January 19, 1866 in Canton, Bradford County, PA, and died at age 83 years old on August 9, 1949 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA. Harry Davenport was buried at Kensico Cemetery 273 Lakeview Ave, in Valhalla, Westchester County, NY.

Harry Davenport

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States

January 19, 1866

Canton, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, 17724, United States

August 9, 1949

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States

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Movies Meet Me in St. Louis 1944 The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941 The Enchanted Forest 1945 The Cowboy and the Lady 1938 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer 1947 That Forsyte Woman 1949 Saleslady 1938 My Sin 1931 That Uncertain Feeling 1941 Princess O'Rourke 1943 Too Many Husbands 1940 The Thin Man Goes Home 1944 Show more Harry Davenport (actor 1866-1949) He is best known for playing Dr. Meade in the Civil War epic "Gone with the Wind," 1939's Academy Award winner for Best Picture and the highest-grossing film for 1939. Harry Davenport He is known for Gone with the Wind (1939), You Can't Take It with You (1938), and Foreign Correspondent (1940). He married Alice Davenport at the age of 23. 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. Born: January 19, 1866, Canton, PA Died: August 9, 1949 (age 83 years), Los Angeles, CA Grandchildren: Arthur Rankin, Jr., Dirk Wayne Summers, Children: Dorothy Davenport, Arthur Rankin, Ned Davenport, Kate Davenport, Ann Davenport Place of burial: Kensico Cemetery, NY Spouse: Phyllis Rankin (m. 1896–1934), Alice Davenport (m. 1893–1896)
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1866

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January 19, 1866

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Canton, Bradford County, Pennsylvania 17724, United States

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Ethnicity & Family History

Early life Harry Davenport was born January 19, 1866, in Canton, Pennsylvania, where his family lived during the holidays. He also grew up in Philadelphia. Harry came from a long line of stage actors; his father was thespian Edward Loomis Davenport and his mother, Fanny Vining Davenport, was an English actress and a descendant of the renowned 18th-century Irish stage actor Jack Johnson. His sister was actress Fanny Davenport.
Professional Career

Film career Davenport in 1911 Harry Davenport was one of the best-known and busiest "old men" in Hollywood films during the 1930s and 1940s. He started his film career at the age of 47, debuting in the 1913 silent short film Kenton's Heir. The next year, he starred in Fogg's Millions co-starring Rose Tapley. The film became the first in a series of silent comedy shorts.[citation needed] In addition, he also directed some silent features and many shorts between 1915 and 1917, including many of the films in the Mr. and Mrs. Jarr series.[7] Harry Davenport played Dr. Meade in Gone with the Wind (1939). Some of his other film roles are a lone resident in a ghost town in The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941), filmed on location in Death Valley, and the aged Louis XI of France in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) with Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara and Cedric Hardwicke. He also had supporting roles in Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Foreign Correspondent (1940), William A. Wellman's western The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) and in Kings Row (1943) with Ronald Reagan. Davenport also played the grandfather of Judy Garland in Vincente Minnelli's classic Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) and the great-uncle of Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947). His last film, Frank Capra's Riding High (1950), was released after his death. Harry Davenport appeared in over 160 films. Asked why he made so many films at his age, he replied: I hate to see men of my age sit down as if their lives were ended and accept a dole. An old man must show that he knows his job and is no loafer. If he can do that, they can take their pension money and buy daisies with it. Actors' Equity Association In 1913, he co-founded, along with actor Eddie Foy, the Actors' Equity Association, an American labor union for actors. The original organization, known as the White Rats, was spearheaded by Davenport. After a nine-month stretch, the actors' group united in defiance of the appalling treatment of actors by theater owners such as the Shubert family and David Belasco, among others, by refusing to appear on stage by striking. The actions of the association caused the closure of all the theatres on Broadway, the only exception being theaters owned by George M. Cohan's company.
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August 9, 1949

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Heart Attack.

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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States
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Kensico Cemetery 273 Lakeview Ave, in Valhalla, Westchester County, New York 10595, United States
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