It's a Wonderful Life Cast
Meet the Cast
George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart)
A Man With a Plan Small-town boy George Bailey has got big plans. He wants to go to college, travel the world, design cities—be a regular Renaissance man, like Leonardo da Vinci or, uh, James Fra...
Mary Hatch (Donna Reed)
A Crush Mary Hatch is the prettiest girl in town. And she lo-o-o-ves George Bailey.Smart as a whip, with a sassy personality and a great sense of humor, Mary is the realist to George's romantic. Sh...
Clarence (Angel) (Henry Travers)
I Got No WingsGeorge really lucks out in the guardian angel assignment lottery. He doesn't get saddled with some punk angel like John Travolta's Michael. Clarence Odbody ends up being George's pers...
Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore)
Bad to the Bone "Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster." That's the best description we've read of He...
Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell)
Uncle Billy is everybody's weird uncle. Weird in a positive, absentminded way, not weird in a "we suspect him of plotting against the government" way. He's an amusing eccentric—a likable characte...
Peter Bailey (Samuel S. Hinds)
Pa Bailey is a living incarnation of the old-timey "Father knows best" maxim. As George Bailey's dad, he's an honest man who founded the Bailey Brothers Building and Loan with Uncle Billy in order...
Harry Bailey (Todd Karns)
Harry Bailey is handsome, athletic, popular, and lucky. He might be a college grad and war hero, but he owes lots of that to his brother, George. As a kid, Harry accidentally crashes into an icy po...
Ma Bailey (Beulah Bondi)
We don't get to learn much about George and Harry's mother except that she's one of the people who prays for George on the night of his crisis. Her finest moment is when she helps George realize th...
Zuzu Bailey (Karolyn Grimes)
Zuzu Bailey is George's 6-year-old daughter. We don't see much of the kids in the movie, but one scene with Zuzu shows us how much she loves and depends on him. Sick in bed, she's sad about a flowe...
George's Other Children (Larry Simms, Carol Coomes, Jimmy Hawkins)
(Psst. Head on over to "Zuzu Bailey" for the deets on her.)Pete Bailey Pete Bailey is George's 9-year-old son, named for his grandpa. He's a typical kid who loves his dad and peppers him with quest...
Minor Characters
Angel Joseph and Senior Angel Franklin These guys are working some serious overtime. Joseph and the Senior Angel—who is called Franklin in the screenplay, though this name is never actually spoke...