Birth Name: James Bateman
Date of Birth: September 21, 1935
Place of Birth: Germantown, Pennsylvania
Date of Death: September 14, 2009
Place of Death: Malibu, California
Ethnicity: Irish, with some German, English, distant Dutch
Henry Gibson was an American actor. His father was of Irish descent. His mother had Irish, German, English, and distant Dutch, ancestry.
Henry’s paternal grandparents were John J. Bateman and Margaret E. Gallagher. John was born in New York, to Irish parents. Margaret was born in Pennsylvania, to Irish parents.
Henry’s maternal grandparents were Hugh Gilbert Cassidy (the son of Lewis Cochran Cassidy and Sarah T. Truman) and Mary Dorothea Fagan (the daughter of Louis Estell Fagan and Mary Dorothea Colahan).
Source: Henry’s father on the 1900 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org