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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Cecil Parker Biography / Wiki
| Name | Cecil Parker |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Hastings, Sussex, England, UK |
| Date of Birth | 1897-09-03 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
| Deathday | 1971-04-20 |
Cecil Parker Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Pure Hell of St. Trinian’s | Professor Canford | 1960-12-22 | The fourth form monsters’ latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breath… |
| Dear Mr. Prohack | Arthur Prohack | 1949-09-07 | A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett’s novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and… |
| The Navy Lark | Cmdr. Stanton | 1959-01-01 | An Inshore Minesweeping Unit has been forgotten by the Navy after World War II on the peaceful island of Boonsley and they have adapted to their circu… |
| Tony Draws a Horse | 1950-06-01 | The free-spirited wife of a proper British doctor leaves him after an arguement over the anatomically correct drawing of a horse on the wall drawn by … | |
| The Ladykillers | Claude, alias ‘Major Courtney’ | 1955-12-08 | Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicia… |
| The Admirable Crichton | Lord Henry Loam | 1957-06-11 | Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals – at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still b… |
| I Was Monty’s Double | Colonel E.F. Logan | 1958-10-21 | The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German’s about his intentions befo… |
| The Comedy Man | Thomas Rutherford | 1964-09-03 | A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognit… |
| A French Mistress | John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School | 1960-08-25 | The boys of Melbury Primary School are plunged into turmoil when the new French Master turns out to be a Mistress! Madelin Leforge’s (the French Mistr… |
| Isn’t Life Wonderful! | Charles, the boy’s father | 1954-11-10 | Around the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It … |
| The Night We Dropped a Clanger | Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser | 1959-10-10 | The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing… |
| I Believe in You | Henry Phipps | 1952-03-05 | A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of “The Blue Lamp”(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers an… |
| His Excellency | Sir James Kirkman | 1952-01-22 | A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony… |
| Heavens Above! | Archdeacon Aspinall | 1963-05-20 | A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and p… |
| The Amorous Prawn | Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam | 1962-11-26 | While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in or… |
| Follow That Horse! | 1960-07-11 | A race horse swallows a microfilm and is pursued by the major superpowers spy agencies…. | |
| It’s Great to be Young! | 1956-12-26 | IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposi… | |
| The Weaker Sex | Geoffrey Radcliffe | 1948-10-11 | A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II…. |
| True as a Turtle | Dudley Partridge | 1957-02-01 | Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one da… |
| Indiscreet | Alfred Munson | 1958-07-16 | Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, whil… |
| The Man in the White Suit | Alan Birnley | 1951-08-07 | The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune sell… |
| Crime Unlimited | Assistant Commissioner | 1935-09-01 | A young police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves…. |
| For Better, for Worse | Anne’s Father | 1954-06-20 | In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5…. |
| 23 Paces to Baker Street | Bob Matthews | 1956-05-18 | Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child… |
| Storm in a Teacup | Provost William Gow | 1937-02-25 | A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter…. |
| Hungry Hill | Copper John | 1947-01-07 | Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune…. |
| On the Fiddle | Group Capt. Bascombe | 1961-10-10 | Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedl… |
| Petticoat Pirates | C-in-C | 1961-11-01 | Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audl… |
| Captain Boycott | Capt. Charles C. Boycott | 1947-08-26 | Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boyco… |
| The Brain | Stevenson | 1962-09-05 | A millionaire businessman’s brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer… |
| The Magnificent Two | British Ambassador | 1967-07-05 | Two salesmen travel to a small South American Country to peddle their wares. However the country is in the middle of a major conflict between the Gove… |
| Happy Is the Bride | Arthur Royd | 1958-03-04 | In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else… |
| The Woman in the Hall | Sir Halmar Barnard | 1947-10-27 | Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money – visiting the houses… |
| The Chiltern Hundreds | Benjamin Beecham | 1949-09-27 | Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generati… |
| The First Gentleman | The Prince Regent | 1948-03-15 | The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg…. |
| Dangerous Moonlight | Specialist | 1941-06-26 | Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his me… |
| Father Brown | The Bishop | 1954-06-08 | Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul…. |
| The Saint’s Vacation | Rudolph Hauser | 1941-05-09 | While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box…. |
| Sons of the Sea | Cmdr. Herbert | 1939-12-23 | The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target…. |
| The Magic Bow | Luigi Germi | 1946-09-20 | Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician’s romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert pl… |
| Jack of All Trades | Sir Chas. Darrington | 1936-12-30 | In this he’s on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a ba… |
| Under Your Hat | Sir Jeffrey Arlington | 1940-09-01 | In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular s… |
| The Court Jester | King Roderick I | 1955-12-24 | A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England…. |
| Under Ten Flags | Colonel Howard | 1960-09-15 | “Under Ten Flags” is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and he… |
| Dishonour Bright | Vincent Crane | 1936-09-21 | A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court…. |
| Under Capricorn | The Governor | 1949-09-08 | In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arr… |
| A Tale of Two Cities | Jarvis Lorry | 1958-02-07 | British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. … |
| The Man Who Changed His Mind | Dr. Gratton | 1936-09-11 | Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks lo… |
| The Constant Husband | Llewellyn | 1955-04-21 | Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his lif… |
| The Iron Maiden | Sir Giles Thompson | 1963-06-07 | The film follows Jack Hopkins (played by Michael Craig), an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss (played by Cecil Parker) i… |
| The Lady Vanishes | Eric Todhunter | 1938-10-07 | On a train headed for England a group of travelers is delayed by an avalanche. Holed up in a hotel in a fictional European country, young Iris befrien… |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | Britannus | 1945-12-11 | The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play…. |
| Dirty Work | Gordon Bray | 1934-12-07 | Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief…. |
| Foreign Affaires | Lord Wormington | 1935-11-21 | An ageing aristocrat schemes to secure his dwindling finances by any means – fair or foul!… |
| Quartet | Colonel George Peregrine | 1948-10-26 | Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: “The Facts of Life,” “The Alien Corn,” “The Kite,” and “The Colonel’s Lady.”… |
| A Man Could Get Killed | Sir Huntley Frazier | 1966-03-25 | An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon afte… |
| Swiss Family Robinson | Captain Moreland | 1960-12-21 | After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they … |
| The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Inquiry Chairman | 1959-11-17 | A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a resu… |
| Lady L | Sir Percy | 1965-12-17 | Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through… |
| Men of Yesterday | 1936-05-01 | A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion…. | |
| Carry On Jack | First Sealord | 1963-11-01 | Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing t… |
| Circus of Fear | Sir John | 1966-04-29 | A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder…. |
| The Stars Look Down | Stanley Millington | 1940-01-22 | The Stars Look Down is based on A. J. Cronin’s 1935 novel of the same name, about injustices in a mining community in North East England. While the n… |
| The Citadel | Dr. Charles Every | 1938-10-29 | Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the… |
| Me and Marlborough | Colonel of the Greys | 1935-07-22 | A woman disguises herself in men’s clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars…. |
| Little Friend | Mason | 1934-11-18 | A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents’ scandalous divorce case…. |
| A Cuckoo in the Nest | Claude Hickett | 1933-11-11 | A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married – to other people. The othe… |
| Lady in Danger | Piker | 1934-11-27 | Walls plays an Englishman who’s assigned the task of transporting a Queen(Yvonne Arnaud) of a revolution-torn country to England incognito. Hiding her… |
| Housemaster | Sir Berkeley Nightingale | 1938-01-31 | Three girls arrive at a stuffy English public school and cause all sorts of problems with both the staff and pupils…. |
| Ships with Wings | German Air Marshal | 1941-11-10 | Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Gre… |
| A Study in Terror | Prime Minister | 1965-10-01 | When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes’ sharp deductive is immediate… |
| Guns at Batasi | Fletcher | 1964-10-30 | An anachronistic martinet RSM on a remote Colonial African army caught in a local coup d’etat must use his experience to defend those in his care…. |
| Dark Journey | Captain Of Q-Boat | 1937-07-02 | Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espi… |
| The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders | The Mayor | 1965-05-26 | A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society…. |
| The Guv’nor | Bank Director | 1935-10-01 | The Guv’nor (released in the U.S. as Mr. Hobo) is a 1935 British comedy film starring George Arliss as a tramp who rides a series of misunderstandings… |
| On the Fiddle | Gr/Cpt Bascombe | 1961-10-10 | Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedl… |
| Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words | Alfred Munson (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2015-08-27 | A personal portrait of mythical and controversial actress Ingrid Bergman based on her many home movies and diaries…. |
| Oh! What a Lovely War | Sir John | 1969-03-10 | Satire about the First World War based on a stage musical of the same name, portraying the “Game of War” and focusing mainly on the members of one fam… |
| The Magic Box | 1st Platform Man | 1952-01-01 | Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i… |
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