Cecil Parker
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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
Credits
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
as Captain Moreland
The Ladykillers (1955)
as Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
as Eric Todhunter
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
as Britannus
The Court Jester (1955)
as King Roderick I
The Man in the White Suit (1951)
as Alan Birnley
Under Capricorn (1949)
as The Governor
Indiscreet (1958)
as Alfred Munson
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
as Sir John
The Weaker Sex (1948)
as Geoffrey Radcliffe
A Study in Terror (1965)
as Prime Minister
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
as Inquiry Chairman
The Admirable Crichton (1957)
as Lord Henry Loam
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
as The Mayor
Heavens Above! (1963)
as Archdeacon Aspinall
The Citadel (1938)
as Dr. Charles Every
23 Paces to Baker Street (1956)
as Bob Matthews
Crime Unlimited (1935)
as Assistant Commissioner
Lady L (1965)
as Sir Percy
Dark Journey (1937)
as Captain Of Q-Boat
I Was Monty's Double (1958)
as Colonel E.F. Logan
Guns at Batasi (1964)
as Fletcher
Carry On Jack (1964)
as First Sea Lord
The Brain (1962)
as Stevenson
Under Ten Flags (1960)
as Colonel Howard
The Constant Husband (1955)
as Llewellyn
The Magic Box (1952)
as 1st Platform Man
A Man Could Get Killed (1966)
as Sir Huntley Frazier
For Better, for Worse (1954)
as John Purves
Little Friend (1934)
as Mason
The Guv'nor (1935)
as Bank Director
The Chiltern Hundreds (1949)
as Benjamin Beecham
Circus of Fear (1966)
as Sir John
A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
as Jarvis Lorry
Storm in a Teacup (1937)
as Provost William Gow
Ships with Wings (1941)
as German Air Marshal
On the Fiddle (1961)
as Group Capt. Bascombe
The Iron Maiden (1963)
as Sir Giles Thompson
Father Brown (1954)
as The Bishop
The Magic Bow (1946)
as Luigi Germi
Quartet (1948)
as Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
as Dr. Gratton
Happy Is the Bride (1958)
as Arthur Royd
Dangerous Moonlight (1941)
as Specialist
The Comedy Man (1964)
as Thomas Rutherford
A French Mistress (1960)
as John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School
Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
as Arthur Prohack
The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
as Professor Canford
Hungry Hill (1947)
as Copper John
The Navy Lark (1959)
as Cmdr. Stanton
Captain Boycott (1947)
as Capt. Charles C. Boycott
Men of Yesterday (1936)
Actor
The Stars Look Down (1940)
as Stanley Millington
The First Gentleman (1948)
as The Prince Regent
I Believe in You (1952)
as Henry Phipps
His Excellency (1952)
as Sir James Kirkman
Old Iron (1938)
as Barnett
The Magnificent Two (1967)
as Sir John
It's Great to be Young! (1956)
as Frome, Headmaster
The Saint's Vacation (1941)
as Rudolph Hauser
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making (2002)
as Self (archive)
Isn't Life Wonderful! (1953)
as Charles, the boy's father
Her Last Affaire (1935)
as Sir Arthur Harding
The Blue Squadron (1934)
as Bianchi
The Night We Dropped a Clanger (1959)
as Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser
Housemaster (1938)
as Sir Berkeley Nightingale
The Golden Cage (1933)
Actor
The Amorous Prawn (1962)
as Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam
The Woman in the Hall (1947)
as Sir Halmar Barnard
The Silver Spoon (1934)
as Trevor
Me and Marlborough (1935)
as Colonel of the Greys
Petticoat Pirates (1961)
as C-in-C
Dirty Work (1934)
as Gordon Bray
Sons of the Sea (1939)
as Cmdr. Herbert
Tony Draws a Horse (1950)
Actor
The Office Wife (1934)
as Lawrence Bradley
Under Your Hat (1940)
as Sir Jeffrey Arlington
A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
as Claude Hickett
Follow That Horse! (1960)
Actor
True as a Turtle (1957)
as Dudley Partridge
Foreign Affaires (1935)
as Lord Wormington
It Might Be You (1938)
as Dr. Smith
Lady in Danger (1934)
as Piker
Dishonour Bright (1936)
as Vincent Crane
Jack of All Trades (1936)
as Sir Chas. Darrington