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Years active. 1928–1955. Percy William Kilbride [1] (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).
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July 16, 1888 · San Francisco, California, USA. Died. December 11, 1964 · Los Angeles, California, USA (road accident) Birth name. Percy William Kilbride. Nickname. Pa Kettle. Height. 5′ 7″ (1.70 m) Mini Bio. He had a long career in theater before making movies, playing hundreds of roles, mostly rustic bumpkins, in stage and stock.
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- December 11, 1964
- July 16, 1888
He died at 12;30 A.M. in Chase Sanitarium, where he was convalescing. Mf. Kilbride, who began acting at the age of 12, scored his greatest success in the role of a drawling, salty, slow‐grinning...
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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.
twitter. Biography by AllMovie [+] 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.
