Keeper of the Flame
1942
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Percy William Kilbride (July 16, 1888 – December 11, 1964) was an American character actor. He made a career of playing country "hicks," most memorably as Pa Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of feature films.
Percy Kilbride. Actor: Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm. He had a long career in theater before making movies, playing hundreds of roles, mostly rustic bumpkins, in stage and stock. His film career included two isolated early films: White Woman (1933) and Soak the Rich (1936).
Kilbride, who began acting at the age of 12, scored his greatest success in the role of a drawling, salty, slow‐grinning farmer called Pa Kettle. Mr. Kilbride was teamed with Marjorie Main as...
Percy Kilbride. Actor: Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm. He had a long career in theater before making movies, playing hundreds of roles, mostly rustic bumpkins, in stage and stock. His film career included two isolated early films: White Woman (1933) and Soak the Rich (1936).
The success of the novel spawned the 1947 film The Egg and I starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray, also co-starring Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride as Ma and Pa Kettle. Main was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role.
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Already widowed and now recovering from the accidental death of her beloved teenage son, famous opera singer Helen (Jeanette MacDonald), with her son’s pet collie Lassie, finds a country retreat and rents from Mr. Willigoode (Percy Kilbride), in MGM’s The Sun Comes Up, 1949.
Familiar to million as the twangy, bucolic Pa Kettle, Percy Kilbride first stepped on the stage in the role of an 18th-century French fop in a San Francisco production of Tale of Two Cities. Interrupting his career to serve in World War I, Kilbride spent the postwar years in regional stock companies.
Percy Kilbride is known as an Actor. Some of his work includes Fallen Angel, The Southerner, Ma and Pa Kettle, The Egg and I, State Fair, Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town, Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm, and Riff-Raff.
Percy Kilbride. Highest Rated: 93% The Southerner (1945) Lowest Rated: 83% State Fair (1945) Birthday: Jul 16, 1888. Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA.
