Harry Davenport Movies and Career Information

Harold George Bryant "Harry" Davenport (January 19, 1866 – August 9, 1949) was an American film and stage actor. He appeared in a number of roles in many famous films from the early 1900s to the late 1940s. His specialty was playing grandfathers, judges, doctors, and ministers. He is perhaps best known for playing Dr. Meade in Gone With the Wind (1939). Davenport was born in New York City and grew up in Philadelphia. He came from a long line of stage actors, where his father was the famed thespian Edward Loomis Davenport and his mother, Fanny Vining, was a descendant of the renowned 18th-century Irish stage actor, Jack Johnson. His sister was actress Fanny Davenport. He made his stage debut at the age of five in the play Damon and Pythias. He started his film career at the age of 48. His film debut came in 1914 with silent film Too Many Husbands, in which he played a man trying to keep his love-struck nephew away from a young woman he had raised as his daughter. Later that same year, he starred in Fogg's Millions co-starring Rose Tapley. The film would go on to become the first in a series of silent comedy shorts. In addition, he also directed eleven silent features during the