Cecil Parker

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: Acting

Born: Hastings, Sussex, England, UK, 1897-09-02

Died: 1971-04-20

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	The Golden Cage		0
2	1933	A Cuckoo in the Nest	Claude Hickett	50
3	1934	The Silver Spoon	Trevor	0
4	1934	The Office Wife	Lawrence Bradley	0
5	1934	Little Friend	Mason	35
6	1934	Lady in Danger	Piker	58
7	1934	Dirty Work	Gordon Bray	0
8	1934	The Blue Squadron		0
9	1935	Me and Marlborough	Colonel of the Greys	53
10	1935	Crime Unlimited	Assistant Commissioner	58
11	1935	The Guv'nor	Bank Director	73
12	1935	Her Last Affaire	Sir Arthur Harding	60
13	1935	Foreign Affaires	Lord Wormington	0
14	1936	Men of Yesterday		0
15	1936	The Man Who Changed His Mind	Dr. Gratton	60
16	1936	Dishonour Bright	Vincent Crane	0
17	1936	Jack of All Trades	Sir Chas. Darrington	55
18	1937	Storm in a Teacup	Provost William Gow	75
19	1937	Dark Journey	Captain Of Q-Boat	64
20	1938	Housemaster	Sir Berkeley Nightingale	0
21	1938	The Lady Vanishes	Eric Todhunter	74
22	1938	The Citadel	Dr. Charles Every	63
23	1938	It Might Be You	Dr. Smith	0
24	1939	Sons of the Sea	Cmdr. Herbert	68
25	1940	The Stars Look Down	Stanley Millington	64
26	1940	Under Your Hat	Sir Jeffrey Arlington	53
27	1941	The Saint's Vacation	Rudolph Hauser	55
28	1941	Dangerous Moonlight	Specialist	64
29	1941	Ships with Wings	German Air Marshal	40
30	1945	Caesar and Cleopatra	Britannus	61
31	1946	The Magic Bow	Luigi Germi	53
32	1947	Hungry Hill	Copper John	54
33	1947	Captain Boycott	Capt. Charles C. Boycott	67
34	1947	The Woman in the Hall	Sir Halmar Barnard	60
35	1948	The First Gentleman	The Prince Regent	60
36	1948	The Weaker Sex	Geoffrey Radcliffe	60
37	1948	Quartet	Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")	62
38	1949	Dear Mr. Prohack	Arthur Prohack	60
39	1949	Under Capricorn	The Governor	61
40	1949	The Chiltern Hundreds	Benjamin Beecham	50
41	1950	Tony Draws a Horse		0
42	1951	The Man in the White Suit	Alan Birnley	69
43	1952	The Magic Box	1st Platform Man	63
44	1952	His Excellency	Sir James Kirkman	60
45	1952	I Believe in You	Henry Phipps	64
46	1953	Isn't Life Wonderful!	Charles, the boy's father	56
47	1954	Father Brown	The Bishop	64
48	1954	For Better, for Worse	Anne's Father	56
49	1955	The Constant Husband	Llewellyn	69
50	1955	The Ladykillers	Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'	73
51	1955	The Court Jester	King Roderick I	73
52	1956	23 Paces to Baker Street	Bob Matthews	68
53	1956	It's Great to be Young!	Frome, Headmaster	62
54	1957	True as a Turtle	Dudley Partridge	70
55	1957	The Admirable Crichton	Lord Henry Loam	69
56	1958	A Tale of Two Cities	Jarvis Lorry	67
57	1958	Happy Is the Bride	Arthur Royd	62
58	1958	Indiscreet	Alfred Munson	66
59	1958	I Was Monty's Double	Colonel E.F. Logan	69
60	1959	The Navy Lark	Cmdr. Stanton	65
61	1959	The Night We Dropped a Clanger	Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser	52
62	1959	The Wreck of the Mary Deare	Inquiry Chairman	63
63	1960	Follow That Horse!		0
64	1960	A French Mistress	John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School	57
65	1960	Under Ten Flags	Colonel Howard	54
66	1960	Swiss Family Robinson	Captain Moreland	69
67	1960	The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's	Professor Canford	62
68	1961	On the Fiddle	Group Capt. Bascombe	53
69	1961	On the Fiddle	Gr/Cpt Bascombe	53
70	1961	Petticoat Pirates	C-in-C	62
71	1962	The Brain	Stevenson	56
72	1962	The Amorous Prawn	Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam	63
73	1963	Heavens Above!	Archdeacon Aspinall	63
74	1963	The Iron Maiden	Sir Giles Thompson	64
75	1964	Carry On Jack	First Sealord	59
76	1964	The Comedy Man	Thomas Rutherford	71
77	1964	Guns at Batasi	Fletcher	71
78	1965	The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders	The Mayor	58
79	1965	A Study in Terror	Prime Minister	63
80	1965	Lady L	Sir Percy	58
81	1966	A Man Could Get Killed	Sir Huntley Frazier	38
82	1966	Circus of Fear	Sir John	52
83	1967	The Magnificent Two	Sir John	31
84	1969	Oh! What a Lovely War	Sir John	68
85	2002	Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making	Self (archive)	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	Studio One	Dr. Hans Hojda	50
2	1948	Studio One	A newspaper publisher	50
3	1950	Robert Montgomery Presents	Sir Simon de Canterville	56
4	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	The Lawyer	77
5	1960	The Aquanauts	Dr. Cattermole	55
6	1960	Citizen James	Himself	76
7	1961	The Avengers	Glover	77
8	1962	The Saint	Lord Gillingham	73
9	1964	Sherlock Holmes		64

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