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H. B. Warner

February 24, 2023

Henry Byron Warner (born Henry Byron Lickfold,[1] 26 October 1876 – 21 December 1958) was an English film and theatre actor. He was popular during the silent era and played Jesus Christ in The King of Kings. In later years, he successfully moved into supporting roles and appeared in numerous films directed by Frank Capra. Warner's most recognizable role to modern audiences is Mr. Gower in the perennially shown film It's a Wonderful Life, directed by Capra. He appeared in the original 1937 version of Lost Horizon as Chang, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

H. B. Warner
Film Fun, 1919
Born
Henry Byron Lickfold[1]

(1876-10-26)26 October 1876
St John's Wood, London, UK
Died21 December 1958(1958-12-21) (aged 82)
Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placeChapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles, California
OccupationActor
Years active1896–1958
Spouse(s)
Mrs. Fred R. Hamlin
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(m. 1907; died 1914)​

Rita Stanwood
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(m. 1915; div. 1933)​
Children3
Parent

Early life

Born in St John's Wood, London, England in 1876, H. B. Warner was educated at Bedford School. His father, Charles Warner, was an actor, and although Henry initially thought about studying medicine, he eventually performed on the stage. He had an older sister, Grace Warner (1873-1925), who was a stage actress and manager.[2]

Stage

Warner's stage debut came in It's Never Too Late to Mend when he was 21. He acted in several plays before coming to the United States for the 1905–1906 season.[3] His Broadway credits include Silence (1924), You and I (1922), Danger (1921), Sleeping Partners (1918), Out There (1917), and Blackbirds (1912).[4]

Film

Warner began his film career in silent films in 1914 when he debuted in The Lost Paradise. He played lead roles in the silent era and also appeared in numerous Broadway plays. His greatest success was the role of Jesus in Cecil B. DeMille's silent epic The King of Kings in 1927. He received good reviews for this role, but with the advent of sound era, he turned toward supporting roles, mostly because of his age. He usually was cast in dignified roles in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s. He played in the 1930 version of Liliom (as the Heavenly Magistrate), in Five Star Final (1931, as Michael Townsend), in Grand Canary (1934, as Dr. Ismay), and the 1935 version of A Tale of Two Cities as Gabelle. He portrayed the strict judge in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). He appeared in the original 1937 version of Lost Horizon as Chang, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Among his later films were You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Rains Came (1939), and The Corsican Brothers (1941). In It's a Wonderful Life (1946), he played an atypical role as the drunken druggist. Occasionally, Warner was seen in sinister roles as in the 1941 film version of The Devil and Daniel Webster, in which he played the ghost of John Hathorne. Also that year, he played the villainous role of Mr. Carrington in Topper Returns. He had a cameo in Sunset Boulevard (1950), directed by Billy Wilder, in which he played himself, playing cards with some other former silent film stars, including Buster Keaton and Anna Q. Nilsson. He had a cameo role in Cecil B DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956). His last film role was an uncredited cameo in Darby's Rangers (1958).

Personal life

Warner was married twice, first to the former Mrs. F. R. Hamlin, who died in 1914, and from 1915 until 1933 to Marguerite L. 'Rita' Stanwood.[5] On 21 December 1958, Warner died in Los Angeles, California of a heart attack, and is interred in a private vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, California.

For his contributions to the motion picture industry, Warner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard.[6]

Filmography

 
Warner, 1920
 
In the 1916 silent drama The Beggar of Cawnpore, Warner portrayed a British army doctor in India reduced to wild-eyed beggary by morphine addiction.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Fisher, James; Londré, Felicia Hardison (2009). The A to Z of American Theater: Modernism. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 506. ISBN 9780810868847. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  2. ^ Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912-1976 vol. 4 Q-Z p.2508 (Grace Warner's bio) - from editions originally published annually by John Parker; 1976 edition by Gale Research Company...Retrieved 23 September 2014
  3. ^ Briscoe, Johnson (1907). The Actors' Birthday Book: First -third Series. An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty-first. Moffat, Yard. p. 235. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  4. ^ "("H.B. Warner" search results)". Playbill Vault. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  5. ^ Silent Film Necrology 2nd edition page 552 c.2001 by Eugene M. Vazzana(H.B. Warner obit) Retrieved 23 September 2014
  6. ^ Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Henry Byron Warner born Henry Byron Lickfold 1 26 October 1876 21 December 1958 was an English film and theatre actor He was popular during the silent era and played Jesus Christ in The King of Kings In later years he successfully moved into supporting roles and appeared in numerous films directed by Frank Capra Warner s most recognizable role to modern audiences is Mr Gower in the perennially shown film It s a Wonderful Life directed by Capra He appeared in the original 1937 version of Lost Horizon as Chang for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor H B WarnerFilm Fun 1919BornHenry Byron Lickfold 1 1876 10 26 26 October 1876St John s Wood London UKDied21 December 1958 1958 12 21 aged 82 Woodland Hills Los Angeles California U S Resting placeChapel of the Pines Crematory Los Angeles CaliforniaOccupationActorYears active1896 1958Spouse s Mrs Fred R Hamlin m 1907 died 1914 wbr Rita Stanwood m 1915 div 1933 wbr Children3ParentCharles Warner father Contents 1 Early life 2 Stage 3 Film 4 Personal life 5 Filmography 6 See also 7 References 8 External linksEarly life EditBorn in St John s Wood London England in 1876 H B Warner was educated at Bedford School His father Charles Warner was an actor and although Henry initially thought about studying medicine he eventually performed on the stage He had an older sister Grace Warner 1873 1925 who was a stage actress and manager 2 Stage EditWarner s stage debut came in It s Never Too Late to Mend when he was 21 He acted in several plays before coming to the United States for the 1905 1906 season 3 His Broadway credits include Silence 1924 You and I 1922 Danger 1921 Sleeping Partners 1918 Out There 1917 and Blackbirds 1912 4 Film EditWarner began his film career in silent films in 1914 when he debuted in The Lost Paradise He played lead roles in the silent era and also appeared in numerous Broadway plays His greatest success was the role of Jesus in Cecil B DeMille s silent epic The King of Kings in 1927 He received good reviews for this role but with the advent of sound era he turned toward supporting roles mostly because of his age He usually was cast in dignified roles in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s He played in the 1930 version of Liliom as the Heavenly Magistrate in Five Star Final 1931 as Michael Townsend in Grand Canary 1934 as Dr Ismay and the 1935 version of A Tale of Two Cities as Gabelle He portrayed the strict judge in Mr Deeds Goes to Town 1936 He appeared in the original 1937 version of Lost Horizon as Chang for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Among his later films were You Can t Take It With You 1938 Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 The Rains Came 1939 and The Corsican Brothers 1941 In It s a Wonderful Life 1946 he played an atypical role as the drunken druggist Occasionally Warner was seen in sinister roles as in the 1941 film version of The Devil and Daniel Webster in which he played the ghost of John Hathorne Also that year he played the villainous role of Mr Carrington in Topper Returns He had a cameo in Sunset Boulevard 1950 directed by Billy Wilder in which he played himself playing cards with some other former silent film stars including Buster Keaton and Anna Q Nilsson He had a cameo role in Cecil B DeMille s The Ten Commandments 1956 His last film role was an uncredited cameo in Darby s Rangers 1958 Personal life EditWarner was married twice first to the former Mrs F R Hamlin who died in 1914 and from 1915 until 1933 to Marguerite L Rita Stanwood 5 On 21 December 1958 Warner died in Los Angeles California of a heart attack and is interred in a private vault at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles California For his contributions to the motion picture industry Warner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6600 Hollywood Boulevard 6 Filmography Edit Warner 1920 In the 1916 silent drama The Beggar of Cawnpore Warner portrayed a British army doctor in India reduced to wild eyed beggary by morphine addiction The Lost Paradise 1914 as Reuben Warren The Ghost Breaker 1914 as Warren Jarvis The Market of Vain Desire 1916 as John Armstrong Shell 43 1916 as William Berner The Raiders 1916 as Scott Wells The Beggar of Cawnpore 1916 as Dr Robert Lowndes The Vagabond Prince 1916 as Prince Torio The Danger Trail 1917 as John Howland Wrath 1917 as Feodor The Seventh Sin 1917 as The Grand Duke God s Man 1917 as Arnold L Hommedieu For a Woman s Honor 1919 as Captain Clyde Mannering The Man Who Turned White 1919 as Captain Rand A Fugitive from Matrimony 1919 as Stephen Van Courtlandt Haunting Shadows 1919 as John Glenarm The Pagan God 1919 as Bruce Winthrop The Gray Wolf s Ghost 1919 as Doctor West The White Dove 1920 as Sylvester Lanyon One Hour Before Dawn 1920 as George Clayton Felix O Day 1920 as Felix O Day Uncharted Channels 1920 as Timothy Webb Jr Dice of Destiny 1920 as Jimmy Doyle When We Were 21 1921 as Richard Carewe Zaza 1923 as Bernard Dufresne Is Love Everything 1924 as Jordan Southwick Whispering Smith 1926 as Whispering Smith Silence 1926 as Jim Warren The King of Kings 1927 as Jesus Sorrell and Son 1927 as Stephen Sorrell French Dressing 1927 as Phillip Grey Man Made Women 1928 as Jules Moret Romance of a Rogue 1928 The Naughty Duchess 1928 as Duke de St Maclou Conquest 1928 as James Farnham The Doctor s Secret 1929 as Richard Garson Stark Mad 1929 as Prof Dangerfield The Divine Lady 1929 as Sir William Hamilton The Trial of Mary Dugan 1929 as District Attorney Galway The Gamblers 1929 as James Darwin The Argyle Case 1929 as Hurley The Show of Shows 1929 as The Victim Guillotine Sequence Tiger Rose 1929 as Dr Cusick Wedding Rings 1929 as Lewis Dike The Green Goddess 1930 as Major Crespin The Furies 1930 as Oliver Bedlow The Second Floor Mystery 1930 as Inspector Bray Wild Company 1930 as Henry Grayson On Your Back 1930 as Raymond Pryor Liliom 1930 as Chief Magistrate The Princess and the Plumber 1930 as Prince Conrad of Daritzia A Woman of Experience 1931 as Major Hugh Schmidt The Reckless Hour 1931 as Walter Nichols Five Star Final 1931 as Michael Townsend Expensive Women 1931 as Melville Raymond Charlie Chan s Chance 1932 as Inspector Fife The Menace 1932 as Inspector Tracy A Woman Commands 1932 as Col Stradimirovitsch Unholy Love 1932 as Dr Daniel Gregory Cross Examination as Gerald Waring Tom Brown of Culver 1932 as Dr Brown The Crusader 1932 as Phillip Brandon The Phantom of Crestwood 1932 as Priam Andes The Son Daughter 1932 as Sin Kai Supernatural 1933 as Dr Carl Houston Jennie Gerhardt 1933 as William Gerhardt Christopher Bean 1933 as Maxwell Davenport Sorrell and Son 1933 as Captain Stephen Sorrell Grand Canary 1934 as Dr Ismay In Old Santa Fe 1934 as Charlie Miller Behold My Wife 1934 as Hubert Carter Night Alarm 1934 as Henry B Smith Born to Gamble 1935 as Carter Mathews A Tale of Two Cities 1935 as Gabelle The Garden Murder Case 1936 as Major Fenwicke Ralston Rose of the Rancho 1936 as Don Pasqual Castro Moonlight Murder 1936 as Godfrey Chiltern Mr Deeds Goes to Town 1936 as Judge May Blackmailer 1936 as Michael Rankin Along Came Love 1936 as Dr Martin Lost Horizon 1937 as Chang Our Fighting Navy 1937 as British Consul Brent Victoria the Great 1937 as Lord Melbourne Girl of the Golden West 1938 as Father Sienna The Adventures of Marco Polo 1938 as Chen Tsu Kidnapped 1938 as Angus Rankeillor The Toy Wife 1938 as Victor Brigard Bulldog Drummond in Africa 1938 as Col J A Nielsen Army Girl 1938 as Col Armstrong You Can t Take It With You 1938 as Ramsay Arrest Bulldog Drummond 1938 as Colonel Nielsen Let Freedom Ring 1939 as Rutledge Bulldog Drummond s Secret Police 1939 as Colonel Nielson The Gracie Allen Murder Case 1939 as Richard Lawrence Bulldog Drummond s Bride 1939 as Colonel Nielson Nurse Edith Cavell 1939 as Hugh Gibson The Rains Came 1939 as Maharajah Mr Smith Goes to Washington 1939 as Senator Agnew New Moon 1940 as Father Michel Topper Returns 1941 as Mr Carrington The Devil and Daniel Webster 1941 as Justice John Hathorne City of Missing Girls 1941 as Captain McVeigh South of Tahiti 1941 as High Chief Kawalima The Corsican Brothers 1941 as Dr Enrico Paoli Crossroads 1942 as Prosecuting Attorney A Yank in Libya 1942 as Herbert Forbes The Boss of Big Town 1942 as Jeffrey Moore Hitler s Children 1943 as The Bishop Women in Bondage 1943 as Pastor Renz Action in Arabia 1944 as Abdul El Rashid Enemy of Women 1944 as Col Eberhart Brandt Faces in the Fog 1944 as Defense Attorney Rankins Rogues Gallery 1944 as Prof Reynolds Captain Tugboat Annie 1945 as Judge Abbott Strange Impersonation 1946 as Dr Mansfield Gentleman Joe Palooka 1946 as Sen McCarden It s a Wonderful Life 1946 as Mr Gower Driftwood 1947 as Rev J Hollingsworth High Wall 1947 as Mr Slocum The Prince of Thieves 1948 as Gilbert Head The Judge Steps Out 1949 as Chief Justice Hayes El Paso 1949 as Judge Fletcher Hellfire 1949 as Brother Joseph Sunset Boulevard 1950 as Himself The First Legion 1951 as Fr Jose Sierra Savage Drums 1951 as Maou Here Comes the Groom 1951 as Uncle Elihu Journey Into Light 1951 as Wiz the Wino The Ten Commandments 1956 as AmminadabSee also EditList of actors with Academy Award nominationsReferences Edit a b Fisher James Londre Felicia Hardison 2009 The A to Z of American Theater Modernism Rowman amp Littlefield p 506 ISBN 9780810868847 Retrieved 18 December 2016 Who Was Who in the Theatre 1912 1976 vol 4 Q Z p 2508 Grace Warner s bio from editions originally published annually by John Parker 1976 edition by Gale Research Company Retrieved 23 September 2014 Briscoe Johnson 1907 The Actors Birthday Book First third Series An Authoritative Insight Into the Lives of the Men and Women of the Stage Born Between January First and December Thirty first Moffat Yard p 235 Retrieved 18 December 2016 H B Warner search results Playbill Vault Retrieved 18 December 2016 Silent Film Necrology 2nd edition page 552 c 2001 by Eugene M Vazzana H B Warner obit Retrieved 23 September 2014 Hollywood Walk of FameExternal links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to H B Warner H B Warner at IMDb H B Warner at the Internet Broadway Database Photographs and literature Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title H B Warner amp oldid 1140044914, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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