Harry Davenport

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)