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Cecil Parker
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Cecil 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 …
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Cecil 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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Cecil Parker's Filmography
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Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
as Self (archive)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sir John
The Magnificent Two
as Sir John
Circus of Fear
as Sir John
A Man Could Get Killed
as Sir Huntley Frazier
Lady L
as Sir Percy
A Study in Terror
as Prime Minister
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Mayor
Guns at Batasi
as Fletcher
The Comedy Man
as Thomas Rutherford
Carry On Jack
as First Sea Lord
The Iron Maiden
as Sir Giles Thompson
Heavens Above!
as Archdeacon Aspinall
The Amorous Prawn
as Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam
The Brain
as Stevenson
Petticoat Pirates
as C-in-C
On the Fiddle
as Group Capt. Bascombe
On the Fiddle
as Gr/Cpt Bascombe
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
as Professor Canford
Swiss Family Robinson
as Captain Moreland
Under Ten Flags
as Colonel Howard
A French Mistress
as John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School
No Poster
Follow That Horse!
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Inquiry Chairman
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
as Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser
The Navy Lark
as Cmdr. Stanton
I Was Monty's Double
as Colonel E.F. Logan
Indiscreet
as Alfred Munson
Happy Is the Bride
as Arthur Royd
A Tale of Two Cities
as Jarvis Lorry
The Admirable Crichton
as Lord Henry Loam
True as a Turtle
as Dudley Partridge
It's Great to be Young!
as Frome, Headmaster
23 Paces to Baker Street
as Bob Matthews
The Court Jester
as King Roderick I
The Ladykillers
as Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'
The Constant Husband
as Llewellyn
For Better, for Worse
as John Purves
Father Brown
as The Bishop
Isn't Life Wonderful!
as Charles, the boy's father
I Believe in You
as Henry Phipps
His Excellency
as Sir James Kirkman
The Magic Box
as 1st Platform Man
The Man in the White Suit
as Alan Birnley
No Poster
Tony Draws a Horse
Under Capricorn
as The Governor
The Chiltern Hundreds
as Benjamin Beecham
Dear Mr. Prohack
as Arthur Prohack
Quartet
as Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
The Weaker Sex
as Geoffrey Radcliffe
The First Gentleman
as The Prince Regent
The Woman in the Hall
as Sir Halmar Barnard
Captain Boycott
as Capt. Charles C. Boycott
Hungry Hill
as Copper John
The Magic Bow
as Luigi Germi
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Britannus
Ships with Wings
as German Air Marshal
Dangerous Moonlight
as Specialist
The Saint's Vacation
as Rudolph Hauser
Under Your Hat
as Sir Jeffrey Arlington
The Stars Look Down
as Stanley Millington
Sons of the Sea
as Cmdr. Herbert
No Poster
Old Iron
as Barnett
No Poster
It Might Be You
as Dr. Smith
The Citadel
as Dr. Charles Every
The Lady Vanishes
as Eric Todhunter
Housemaster
as Sir Berkeley Nightingale
Dark Journey
as Captain Of Q-Boat
Storm in a Teacup
as Provost William Gow
No Poster
Jack of All Trades
as Sir Chas. Darrington
Dishonour Bright
as Vincent Crane
The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Dr. Gratton
No Poster
Men of Yesterday
No Poster
Foreign Affaires
as Lord Wormington
Her Last Affaire
as Sir Arthur Harding
The Guv'nor
as Bank Director
Crime Unlimited
as Assistant Commissioner
Me and Marlborough
as Colonel of the Greys
No Poster
The Blue Squadron
as Bianchi
Dirty Work
as Gordon Bray
Lady in Danger
as Piker
Little Friend
as Mason
No Poster
The Office Wife
as Lawrence Bradley
No Poster
The Silver Spoon
as Trevor
A Cuckoo in the Nest
as Claude Hickett
