George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life) top ten movie dads. George Bailey (It's a Wonderful Life) George Bailey is a fictional character and the protagonist in Frank Capra's 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life". The character is a building and loan banker who sacrifices his dreams in order to help his community, to the point where he feels life has passed him by. Eventually, due to a cruel business rival's manipulations, Bailey falls into despair so deep that he contemplates suicide, until his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody, gives him a valuable perspective on the worth of his life. The character was listed ninth on the American
Bedford Falls (It's a Wonderful Life) mid-December 2015 the small Scottish village of Birgham has been unofficially twinned with Bedford Falls, even having their road signs amended to include the reference. Bedford Falls (It's a Wonderful Life) Bedford Falls (or Pottersville) is the fictional town in which Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short story "The Greatest Gift" and RKO Pictures' 1946 film adaptation, "It's a Wonderful Life," are set. In 1945, Frank Capra visited Seneca Falls in the state of New York to look for inspiration for the town of Bedford Falls. The two towns are very similar as they are both mill towns, they both