Cecil Parker

Highest Rated: 100% Indiscreet (1958)

Lowest Rated: 29% Lady L (1965)

Birthday: Sep 3, 1897

Birthplace: Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK

Sandpaper-voiced British character actor Cecil Parker was able to channel his stuffy, aristocratic demeanor into characters of both authority and menace. Kicking off his stage career after World War I, Parker made his stage bow in 1922 and his first film appearance seven years later. In his film roles, he was frequently addressed as "Colonel," "Your Majesty," or "Your Lordship," though these titles were not always an indication of his character's basic integrity. American filmgoers of the 1930s were most familiar with Parker's portrayal of the philandering, cowardly businessman in Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). He played leads in such post-World War II films as Captain Boycott (1947), The Weaker Sex (1948), The Amazing Mr. Beecham (1949), Tony Draws a Horse (1950), and I Believe in You (1952). He also played such prominent supporting roles as Britannus in Caesar and Cleopatra (1946), the usurping king in Danny Kaye's The Court Jester (1956), Lord Loam in The Admirable Crichton (1957), and Jarvis Lorry in A Tale of Two Cities (1958). Cecil Parker's last film appearance was a comedy cameo in Oh, What a Lovely War (1969).

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Chiltern Hundreds (The Amazing Mr. Beecham)	Actor	—	2015
No Score Yet	Happy Is The Bride	Actor	—	2013
No Score Yet	It's Great To Be Young!	Actor	—	2011
79%	Oh! What A Lovely War	Sir John	—	1969
No Score Yet	The Magnificent Two	British Ambassador	—	1967
No Score Yet	A Man Could Get Killed (Welcome, Mr. Beddoes)	Sir Huntley Frazier	—	1966
No Score Yet	Circus of Fear	Sir John	—	1966
29%	Lady L	Sir Percy	—	1965
No Score Yet	A Study in Terror	Prime Minister	—	1965
No Score Yet	Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders	Mayor	—	1965
No Score Yet	Guns at Batasi	Fletcher	—	1964
No Score Yet	Carry On Jack	First Sea Lord	—	1963
No Score Yet	Heavens Above!	Archdeacon Aspinall	—	1963
No Score Yet	The Amorous Mr. Prawn	Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam	—	1962
No Score Yet	Brain	Stevenson	—	1962
No Score Yet	The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's	Prof. Canford	—	1961
No Score Yet	On the Fiddle	Group Captain Bascombe	—	1961
82%	Swiss Family Robinson	Capt. Moreland	—	1960
No Score Yet	Under Ten Flags (Sotto dieci bandiere)	Actor	—	1960
No Score Yet	The Wreck of the Mary Deare	The Chairman	—	1959
No Score Yet	Navy Lark	Cmdr. Stanton	—	1959
No Score Yet	I Was Monty's Double	Col. Logan	—	1958
No Score Yet	A Tale of Two Cities	Jarvis Lorry	—	1958
100%	Indiscreet	Alfred Munson	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Admirable Crichton	Lord Loam	—	1957
No Score Yet	23 Paces to Baker Street	Matthews	—	1956
97%	The Court Jester	King Roderick	—	1956
100%	The Ladykillers	Maj. Courteney	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Constant Husband (Marriage a la Mode)	Llewellyn	—	1955
No Score Yet	The Detective	The Bishop	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Magic Box	1st Platform Man at Connaught	—	1952
100%	The Man in the White Suit	Alan Birnley	$4.4k	1951
No Score Yet	Tony Draws a Horse	Dr. Howard Fleming	—	1950
63%	Under Capricorn	Sir Richard the tutor	—	1949
No Score Yet	Quartet	Col. Peregrine	—	1949
No Score Yet	Dear Mr. Prohack	Actor	—	1949
No Score Yet	Weaker Sex	Geoffrey Radcliffe	—	1948
No Score Yet	The Woman in the Hall	Sir Halmar Barnard	—	1948
No Score Yet	Captain Boycott	Capt. Boycott	—	1947
No Score Yet	Hungry Hill	Copper John	—	1947
No Score Yet	The Magic Bow	Germi	—	1947
No Score Yet	Caesar and Cleopatra	Britannus	—	1945
No Score Yet	Suicide Squadron (Dangerous Moonlight)	Specialist	—	1942
No Score Yet	The Saint's Vacation	Rudolph Hauser	—	1941
No Score Yet	Ships with Wings	Air Marshal	—	1941
90%	The Stars Look Down	Stanley Millington	—	1940
No Score Yet	Sons of the Sea	Commander Herbert	—	1939
98%	The Lady Vanishes	Eric Todhunter	—	1938
89%	The Citadel	Charles Every	—	1938
No Score Yet	Housemaster	Sir Berkeley Nightingale	—	1938
No Score Yet	Storm in a Teacup	Provost Gow	—	1937
No Score Yet	Dark Journey	Captain	—	1937
No Score Yet	The Man Who Changed His Mind	Dr. Gratton	—	1936
No Score Yet	Jack of All Trades	Barrington	—	1936
No Score Yet	Little Friend	Mason	—	1934
No Score Yet	Dirty Work	Gordon Bray	—	1933
No Score Yet	Cuckoo in the Nest	Claude Hickett	—	1933

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	The Avengers (1961) 1969	Glover	1967
No Score Yet	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962	Lawyer	1961
No Score Yet	The Saint 1962-1969	Gillingham

Quotes from Cecil Parker's Characters

Alfred Munson:	There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie.
Anna Kalman:	How dare he make love to me and not be a married man?
Anna Kalman:	The one who looked like a Greek statue. He talked like a Greek statue. I don't think he knew more than a dozen words. Scotch and soda and one or two more.-
Anna Kalman:	The one who looked like a Greek statue. He talked like a Greek statue. I don't think he knew more than a dozen words. Scotch and soda and one or two more.

Alfred Munson:	There is no one so sincere as a woman telling a lie
Alfred Munson:	There is no one so sincere as a woman telling a lie.

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