Cecil Parker
Birthday: 1897-09-03 | Place of Birth: Hastings, Sussex, England, UKCecil Parker (3 September 1897 – 20 April 1971) was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969. Born Cecil Schwabe in Hastings, Sussex, he began his theatrical career in London in 1922 after serving in World War I. He made his first film appearance in 1928 and subsequently became a familiar face in British, and occasionally American films, until his death. He appeared less often on television, but many of his films have remained popular and are often shown. He acted in two adaptations of A. J. Cronin's novels, The Citadel (1938) and The Stars Look Down (1940), in addition to appearing in The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Under Capricorn (1949), both of the later films were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other roles were in 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956), Dangerous Moonlight (1941), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), and I Was Monty's Double (1958), as well as the comedies A French Mistress (1960), The Ladykillers (1955), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Court Jester (1955), Indiscreet (1958) and I Believe in You (1952). Parker was also the original Charles Condomine in the West End production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, a role subsequently played on Broadway by Clifton Webb and in the 1945 film by Rex Harrison. He often played a touchy senior officer or British upper-class character, and his last two films were true to form: The Magnificent Two (1967) with the British comedy double act Morecambe and Wise and Richard Attenborough's version of Oh! What A Lovely War (1969). He played an evil, scheming butler on one episode of The Avengers ("The £50,000 Breakfast"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Cecil Parker , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Acting
Role
as Self (archive)
as Sir John
as Sir John
as Sir Huntley Frazier
as Sir Percy
as First Sealord
as Fletcher
as Stevenson
as Thomas Rutherford
as Archdeacon Aspinall
as Sir Giles Thompson
as C-in-C
as Group Capt. Bascombe
as Captain Moreland
as Colonel Howard
as John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School
as Professor Canford
as Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser
as Cmdr. Stanton
as Inquiry Chairman
as Alfred Munson
as Colonel E.F. Logan
as Jarvis Lorry
as Dudley Partridge
as Lord Henry Loam
as Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'
as King Roderick I
