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Sep 9, 2018 · HE was famous for playing the posh English gentleman in Hollywood films with stars including Ingrid Bergman but the real-life family story of Sussex actor Cecil Parker was far more dramatic,...
Parker was born in Hastings and educated at St Francois Xavier College and at Bruge. He served in the First World War and took to the stage in 1922 in Eastbourne. He paid his dues in rep at Huddersfield, the Abbey Theatre Dublin, and Liverpool.
The two oldest Robinson boys manage to free the grandson, whom they soon discover is actually a girl (Janet Munro). The family is later attacked by the pirates and about to be overrun when Captain Moreland, who had been able…. Read More.
Cecil Parker was one of the great character actors from their golden age, the '30s to the '60s. He could be menacing or authoritative or simply stuffy; he could draw the water of wit from the stone of the most unyielding dialogue.
The Ladykillers: Directed by Alexander Mackendrick. With Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers. 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 musicians.
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- Comedy, Crime
- Alexander Mackendrick
- 1956-02-03
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.
Jul 2, 2021 · As criminal mastermind Professor Marcus, leader of a gang preparing for a cunning heist with one unwitting participant, Guinness’ askew, oddly-spaced grin — like a row of stained, upside-down...
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