Milton Parsons
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Bald, cadaverous, hollow-eyed, doom-voiced actor Milton Parsons began appearing in films in the late 1930s. In an era wherein being typecast in Hollywood assured an actor a steady paycheck, Parsons fattened his bank account by playing dozens of undertakers and morticians. He was also an effective psychotic type, most notably as the lead in 1942's The Hidden Hand. Parsons entered the "film noir" hall of fame in the tiny role of the jury foreman in 1947's They Won't Believe Me; the film's unforgettable final image was a screen-filling close-up of Parsons, gloomily intoning an all-too-late "Not Guilty." Active into the 1970s, Parsons showed up in TV series ranging from Twilight Zone to The Dick Van Dyke Show, his morbid appearance enhanced by the addition of a satanic goatee. Even in his last roles, Milton Parsons adhered strictly to type; in the 1976 TV movie Griffin and Phoenix, for example, he portrayed a guest lecturer at a support group for terminally ill cancer victims.
Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story |
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— | 1978 |
No Score Yet | Griffin and Phoenix: A Love Story |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Dead Don't Die |
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— | 1975 |
75% | The Haunted Palace |
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— | 1963 |
94% | The Music Man |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | The Notorious Landlady |
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— | 1962 |
No Score Yet | The Silent Call |
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— | 1961 |
94% | Elmer Gantry |
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— | 1960 |
67% | The Monster That Challenged the World |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | The King's Thief |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | How to Be Very, Very Popular |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Rogue Cop |
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— | 1955 |
No Score Yet | Last Of The Comanches |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Somebody Loves Me |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | The Jackpot |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | The Capture |
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— | 1950 |
No Score Yet | Dancing in the Dark |
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— | 1949 |
97% | White Heat |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | Outcasts of the Trail |
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— | 1949 |
No Score Yet | The Walls of Jericho |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | Smart Woman |
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— | 1948 |
No Score Yet | That Hagen Girl |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (Dick Tracy Meets Karloff)(Dick Tracy's Amazing Adventure) |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Bury Me Dead |
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— | 1947 |
75% | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | They Won't Believe Me |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | The Senator Was Indiscreet |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Calcutta |
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— | 1947 |
No Score Yet | Dick Tracy vs. Cueball |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Margie |
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— | 1946 |
No Score Yet | Dark Alibi |
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— | 1946 |
85% | Leave Her to Heaven |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Dick Tracy, Detective |
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— | 1945 |
57% | Anchors Aweigh |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Murder, He Says |
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— | 1945 |
No Score Yet | Lost in a Harem |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Cry of the Werewolf |
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— | 1944 |
No Score Yet | Holy Matrimony |
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— | 1943 |
No Score Yet | Who Done It? |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | The Hidden Hand |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Charlie Chan in Castle in the Desert |
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— | 1942 |
100% | My Favorite Blonde |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | The Great Man's Lady |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | The Remarkable Andrew |
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— | 1942 |
82% | Roxie Hart |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Dressed to Kill |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Dead Men Tell |
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— | 1941 |
100% | Hold That Ghost |
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— | 1941 |
No Score Yet | Who Killed Aunt Maggie? |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Third Finger, Left Hand |
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— | 1940 |
No Score Yet | Doctor Kildare Goes Home |
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— | 1940 |
80% | Edison, the Man |
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— | 1940 |
85% | Another Thin Man |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | When Tomorrow Comes |
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— | 1939 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Little House on the Prairie
1974-1983
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No Score Yet |
Kung Fu
1972-1975
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78% |
The Brady Bunch
1969-1974
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No Score Yet |
Bonanza
1959-1973
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No Score Yet |
Get Smart
1965-1970
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No Score Yet |
The Monkees
1966-1968
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No Score Yet |
The Dick Van Dyke Show
1961-1966
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82% |
The Twilight Zone
1959-1964
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No Score Yet |
I Love Lucy
1951-1957
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