Cecil Parker
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1897-09-02
Day of Death
1971-04-20 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
Hastings, Sussex, England, UK
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").
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Known For
Acting
(2002)
Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
as Self (archive)
(1969)
Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sir John
(1967)
The Magnificent Two
as British Ambassador
(1966)
Circus of Fear
as Sir John
(1966)
A Man Could Get Killed
as Sir Huntley Frazier
(1965)
A Study in Terror
as Prime Minister
(1965)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Mayor
(1965)
Lady L
as Sir Percy
(1964)
Guns at Batasi
as Fletcher
(1964)
Carry On Jack
as First Sealord
(1964)
The Comedy Man
as Thomas Rutherford
(1963)
The Iron Maiden
as Sir Giles Thompson
(1963)
Heavens Above!
as Archdeacon Aspinall
(1962)
The Brain
as Stevenson
(1962)
The Amorous Prawn
as Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam
(1961)
On the Fiddle
as Group Capt. Bascombe
(1961)
On the Fiddle
as Gr/Cpt Bascombe
(1961)
Petticoat Pirates
as C-in-C
(1960)
Swiss Family Robinson
as Captain Moreland
(1960)
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
as Professor Canford
(1960)
Under Ten Flags
as Colonel Howard
(1960)
A French Mistress
as John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School
(1960)
(1959)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Inquiry Chairman
(1959)
The Night We Dropped a Clanger
as Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser
(1959)
The Navy Lark
as Cmdr. Stanton
(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
(1958)
Happy Is the Bride
as Arthur Royd
(1957)
The Admirable Crichton
as Lord Henry Loam
(1957)
True as a Turtle
as Dudley Partridge
(1956)
23 Paces to Baker Street
as Bob Matthews
(1956)
It's Great to be Young!
as Frome, Headmaster
(1955)
The Ladykillers
as Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'
(1955)
The Court Jester
as King Roderick I
(1955)
The Constant Husband
as Llewellyn
(1954)
Father Brown
as The Bishop
(1954)
For Better, for Worse
as Anne's Father
(1953)
Isn't Life Wonderful!
as Charles, the boy's father
(1952)
The Magic Box
as 1st Platform Man
(1952)
His Excellency
as Sir James Kirkman
(1952)
I Believe in You
as Henry Phipps
(1951)
The Man in the White Suit
as Alan Birnley
(1950)
(1949)
Under Capricorn
as The Governor
(1949)
The Chiltern Hundreds
as Benjamin Beecham
(1949)
Dear Mr. Prohack
as Arthur Prohack
(1948)
Quartet
as Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")
(1948)
The Weaker Sex
as Geoffrey Radcliffe
(1948)
The First Gentleman
as The Prince Regent
(1947)
The Woman in the Hall
as Sir Halmar Barnard
(1947)
Captain Boycott
as Capt. Charles C. Boycott
(1947)
Hungry Hill
as Copper John
(1946)
The Magic Bow
as Luigi Germi
(1945)
Caesar and Cleopatra
as Britannus
(1941)
Dangerous Moonlight
as Specialist
(1941)
Ships with Wings
as German Air Marshal
(1941)
The Saint's Vacation
as Rudolph Hauser
(1940)
The Stars Look Down
as Stanley Millington
(1940)
Under Your Hat
as Sir Jeffrey Arlington
(1939)
Sons of the Sea
as Cmdr. Herbert
(1938)
The Lady Vanishes
as Eric Todhunter
(1938)
The Citadel
as Dr. Charles Every
(1938)
Housemaster
as Sir Berkeley Nightingale
(1938)
It Might Be You
as Dr. Smith
(1937)
Storm in a Teacup
as Provost William Gow
(1937)
Dark Journey
as Captain Of Q-Boat
(1936)
The Man Who Changed His Mind
as Dr. Gratton
(1936)
Jack of All Trades
as Sir Chas. Darrington
(1936)
(1936)
Dishonour Bright
as Vincent Crane
(1935)
The Guv'nor
as Bank Director
(1935)
Foreign Affaires
as Lord Wormington
(1935)
Me and Marlborough
as Colonel of the Greys
(1935)
Crime Unlimited
as Assistant Commissioner
(1935)
Her Last Affaire
as Sir Arthur Harding
(1934)
Lady in Danger
as Piker
(1934)
Dirty Work
as Gordon Bray
(1934)
(1934)
Little Friend
as Mason
(1934)
The Office Wife
as Lawrence Bradley
(1934)
The Silver Spoon
as Trevor
(1933)
A Cuckoo in the Nest
as Claude Hickett
(1933)