Am I the only one who prefers the Young Henry, Sr. to the Indy of the movies? I know that sounds crazy but, Owen's Henry is a really brilliant, open minded, intellectual guy. He's a Victorian man, but also rather funny when he wants to be, he's not totally stuck up, and does seem to have that Richard Burton-esque quality about him that Connery had wanted the character to have.
He's not the best father or husband, but the character is like a walking tome of knowledge, and was very open minded for his time. And for as inattentative as he is most of the time, Travels with Father and LC show us he really does love Indy, and some of the other movies show us he also really does love Anna, perhaps moreso than she loved him.
We didn't see Henry be tempted by affairs in the Chronicles as Anna was, and he got angry when Indy dared to mention her in Winds of Change, and even in LC, you can tell he's angry when Indy claims that Anna never understood Henry's quest for the Grail. Her death is still a sore spot for him all those years later, even if he moved on to Elsa and perhaps other women.
I actually kind of wanted to have Henry feature more--To me he was just as fascinating a character as Young Indy, and even "Older" Indy (Harrison).
Indy on the other hand, at least in the movies is a 2 dimensional everyman sort of character; Not very spiritual (or at least not openly so) unlike his father, and even though he's a professor, he doesn't seem to be much of an intellectual, whereas his father clearly is both in the Chronicles and LC. He actually seems to look down on those academic, book worm types like his father. Of course, Indy in the movies is really interesting in his own way, but in the space of a 2 hour adventure film there's no real room for major character growth or exploration.