- Fondly remembered as Clarence, James Stewart's guardian angel ("angel second class"), in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
- Interred at Forest Lawn, Glendale, California, USA, in the Great Mausoleum, Holly Terrace entrance, Hall of Inspiration, directly across from W.C. Fields.
- Active on Broadway from 1901-1938 (early in his career credited as Travers Heagerty, his birth name).
- Henry Travers' two cousins on his mother's side of the family, Thomas H. Hornibrook and his son Samuel W. Hornibrook, were killed by the Irish Republican Army on April 27, 1922, in County Cork, Ireland, during an anti-Protestant campaign to punish suspected informers. There was no evidence the two men were informers. Their bodies were never recovered.
- Appears in seven Oscar Best Picture nominees: Dark Victory (1939), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Random Harvest (1942), Madame Curie (1943), The Bells of St. Mary's (1945), The Yearling (1946) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946), with Mrs. Miniver being the only winner.
- He has appeared in five films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The Invisible Man (1933), Ball of Fire (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).
- Of Irish extraction.
- Cousin of Rob Wagner, silent film director, screenwriter and editor and publisher of Rob Wagner's Script, a Hollywood literary magazine.
- Educated at Berwick on Tweed Grammar School in Northern England where he got involved in amateur dramatics.
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