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Cecil Parker

Cecil Parker

Birthday: 1897-09-03 | Place of Birth: Hastings, Sussex, England, UK

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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1966
A Man Could Get Killed

as    Sir Huntley Frazier

1965
Lady L

as    Sir Percy

1964
Carry On Jack

as    First Sealord

1964
The Brain

as    Stevenson

1963
Heavens Above!

as    Archdeacon Aspinall

1961
On the Fiddle

as    Group Capt. Bascombe

1960
Swiss Family Robinson

as    Captain Moreland

1960
Under Ten Flags

as    Colonel Howard

1960
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

as    Professor Canford

1959
The Night We Dropped a Clanger

as    Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser

1959
The Navy Lark

as    Cmdr. Stanton

1959
The Wreck of the Mary Deare

as    Inquiry Chairman

1958
Indiscreet

as    Alfred Munson

1958
I Was Monty's Double

as    Colonel E.F. Logan

1958
A Tale of Two Cities

as    Jarvis Lorry

1956
23 Paces to Baker Street

as    Bob Matthews

1955
The Court Jester

as    King Roderick I

1954
Father Brown

as    The Bishop

1951
The Man in the White Suit

as    Alan Birnley

1949
Dear Mr. Prohack

as    Arthur Prohack

1949
Under Capricorn

as    The Governor

1947
Captain Boycott

as    Capt. Charles C. Boycott

1947
Hungry Hill

as    Copper John

1946
Caesar and Cleopatra

as    Britannus

1942
Dangerous Moonlight

as    Specialist

1941
The Saint's Vacation

as    Rudolph Hauser

1939
Sons of the Sea

as    Cmdr. Herbert

1938
The Citadel

as    Dr. Charles Every

1938
The Lady Vanishes

as    Eric Todhunter

1937
Storm in a Teacup

as    Provost William Gow