Known For
Acting
Born
Sep 02, 1897
Died
Apr 20, 1971
Place of Birth
Hastings, Sussex, England, UK
Credits
93 titles
Cecil Parker
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Self (archive)
Oh! What a Lovely War
Sir John
The Magnificent Two
Sir John
Circus of Fear
Sir John
A Man Could Get Killed
Sir Huntley Frazier
Lady L
Sir Percy
A Study in Terror
Prime Minister
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
The Mayor
Guns at Batasi
Fletcher
The Comedy Man
Thomas Rutherford
Sherlock Holmes
Carry On Jack
First Sea Lord
The Iron Maiden
Sir Giles Thompson
Heavens Above!
Archdeacon Aspinall
The Amorous Prawn
Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam
The Saint
Lord Gillingham
The Brain
Stevenson
Petticoat Pirates
C-in-C
On the Fiddle
Group Capt. Bascombe
The Avengers
Glover
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
Professor Canford
Swiss Family Robinson
Captain Moreland
Citizen James
Himself
Under Ten Flags
Colonel Howard
The Aquanauts
Dr. Cattermole
A French Mistress
John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School
Follow That Horse!
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Inquiry Chairman
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser
The Navy Lark
Cmdr. Stanton
I Was Monty's Double
Colonel E.F. Logan
Indiscreet
Alfred Munson
Happy Is the Bride
Arthur Royd
A Tale of Two Cities
Jarvis Lorry
The Admirable Crichton
Lord Henry Loam
True as a Turtle
Dudley Partridge
It's Great to be Young!
Frome, Headmaster
23 Paces to Baker Street
Bob Matthews
The Court Jester
King Roderick I
The Ladykillers
Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Lawyer
The Constant Husband
Llewellyn
For Better, for Worse
John Purves
Father Brown
The Bishop
Isn't Life Wonderful!
Charles, the boy's father
I Believe in You
Henry Phipps
His Excellency
Sir James Kirkman
The Magic Box
1st Platform Man
The Man in the White Suit
Alan Birnley
Tony Draws a Horse