Cecil Parker
Highest Rated: 100% The Ladykillers (1955)
Lowest Rated: 29% Lady L (1965)
Birthday: Sep 3, 1897
Birthplace: Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
Cecil Parker is a British actor who, over the course of his career, made the transition between leading man to character actor, playing a series of stuffy, pompous upper crust Englishmen. Parker served in World War I, receiving an injury that left his head positioned in a rightward tilt. He began pursuing a career on the stage after his discharge, making his theatrical debut in 1922 and his on-screen debut in 1933. In the 1930s, Parker appeared mainly in supporting roles, frequently working with comic actor/director Tom Walls, and he had a small but memorable role as an adulterer in the Alfred Hitchcock mystery "The Lady Vanishes." In the late 1940s, Parker played a small number of roles, including the lead character in 1947's "Captain Boycott." As the '50s wore on, Parker gained weight and lost hair, consigning him to the character roles for which he would become known. Parker appeared in two of the best-loved Alec Guinness comedies directed by Alexander Mackendrick for Ealing Studios: 1951's "The Man in the White Suit" and 1955's "The Ladykillers." He occasionally appeared in Hollywood films, but he's probably best-recognized by American audiences for his role as the doomed captain whose shipwreck strands the family in the 1960 Disney film, "Swiss Family Robinson." His final role was in "Oh! What a Lovely War," Richard Attenborough's anti-war satire of the conflict in which Parker himself had served 50 years before.
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Cecil Parker
Filmography
Movies
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What Happened at Campo Grande? | British Ambassador (Character) | - | 1967 |
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A Study in Terror | Prime Minister (Character) | - | 1966 |
29% |
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Lady L | Sir Percy (Character) | - | 1965 |
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Guns at Batasi | Fletcher (Character) | - | 1964 |
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Carry on Jack | First Sealord (Character) | - | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Comedy Man | Thomas Rutherford (Character) | - | 1964 |
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Heavens Above! | Archdeacon Aspinall (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Brain | Stevenson (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Swingin' Maiden | Sir Giles Thompson (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Iron Maiden | Sir Giles Thompson (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Amorous Mr. Prawn | Gen. Sir HamishFitzadam (Character) | - | 1962 |
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On the Fiddle | Group Capt. Bascombe (Character) | - | 1961 |
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's | Professor Canford (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petticoat Pirates | C-in-C (Character) | - | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Under Ten Flags | Col. Howard (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Follow That Horse! | Sir William Crane (Character) | - | 1960 |
82% |
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Swiss Family Robinson | Captain Moreland (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A French Mistress | John Crane (Character) | - | 1960 |
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare | The Chairman (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Happy Is the Bride | Arthur Royd (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Navy Lark | Cmdr. Stanton (Character) | - | 1959 |
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I Was Monty's Double | Colonel EF Logan (Character) | - | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Make Mine a Double | Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser (Character) | - | 1959 |
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A Tale of Two Cities | Jarvis Lorry (Character) | - | 1958 |
100% |
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Indiscreet | Alfred Munson (Character) | - | 1958 |
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Paradise Lagoon | Lord Loam (Character) | - | 1957 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | True as a Turtle | Dudley Partridge (Character) | - | 1957 |
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23 Paces to Baker Street | Bob Matthews (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Plain Sailing | Dudley Partridge (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | It's Great to Be Young | Frome (Character) | - | 1956 |
97% |
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The Court Jester | King Roderick I (Character) | - | 1955 |
100% |
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The Ladykillers | Claude (Character) | $22.2K | 1955 |
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The Constant Husband | Llewellyn (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | For Better, For Worse | Anne's Father (Character) | - | 1954 |
63% |
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The Detective | The Bishop (Character) | - | 1954 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Isn't Life Wonderful? | Father (Character) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Believe in You | Henry Phipps (Character) | - | 1952 |
100% |
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The Man in the White Suit | Alan Birnley (Character) | $8.3K | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | His Excellency | Sir James Kirkman (Character) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tony Draws a Horse | Dr. Howard Fleming (Character) | - | 1951 |
56% |
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Under Capricorn | The Governor (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dear Mr. Prohack | Arthur Prohack (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Amazing Mr. Beecham | Benjamin Beecham (Character) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The First Gentleman | Prince Regent (Character) | - | 1948 |
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Quartet | Colonel Peregrine (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Weaker Sex | Geoffrey Radcliffe (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hungry Hill | Copper John (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Woman in the Hall | Sir Halmar Barnard (Character) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Captain Boycott | Capt. Charles C. Boycott (Character) | - | 1947 |
80% |
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Caesar and Cleopatra | Britannus (Character) | - | 1945 |
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Dangerous Moonlight | Specialist (Character) | - | 1941 |
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The Saint's Vacation | Rudolph Hauser (Character) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ships With Wings | German Air Marshal (Character) | - | 1941 |
90% |
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The Stars Look Down | Stanley Millington (Character) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sons of the Sea | Cmdr. Herbert (Character) | - | 1939 |
89% |
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The Citadel | Charles Every (Character) | - | 1938 |
98% |
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The Lady Vanishes | Eric Todhunter (Character) | - | 1938 |
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Storm in a Teacup | Provost William `'Willie'` Gow (Character) | - | 1937 |
100% |
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Dark Journey | Captain of Q-Boat (Character) | - | 1937 |
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The Man Who Lived Again | Dr. Gratton (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dishonor Bright | Vincent Crane (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jack of All Trades | Sir Chas. Darrington (Character) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Crime Unlimited | Assistant Commissioner (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lady in Danger | Piker (Character) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Cuckoo in the Nest | Claude Hickett (Character) | - | 1933 |
TV
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No Score Yet | 87% | The Avengers | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El Santo | Lord Gillingham (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Spy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | The Lawyer (Character) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Studio One | Unknown (Character) | 1953 |