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Cecil Parker (born Cecil Schwabe; 3 September 1897 – 20 April 1971) was an English actor with a distinctively husky voice, who usually played supporting roles, often characters with a supercilious demeanour, in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969.
Cecil Parker. Actor: The Lady Vanishes. An air of almost smug disdain would hang over his characters like a grey cloud. Yet he could end up being a ray of sunshine with that cloud.
- January 1, 1
- Hastings, East Sussex, England, UK
- January 1, 1
- Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Cecil Parker. Actor: The Lady Vanishes. An air of almost smug disdain would hang over his characters like a grey cloud. Yet he could end up being a ray of sunshine with that cloud.
- September 3, 1897
- April 20, 1971
Cecil Parker (3 September 1897 – 20 April 1971) was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969.
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....
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCreditNo Score YetRotten audience score. 40%British Ambassador (Character)No Score YetRotten audience score. 33%Prime Minister (Character)29%Rotten audience score. 29%Sir Percy (Character)No Score YetFresh audience score. 77%Fletcher (Character)Cecil Parker (1897 - 1971) On the face of it, Cecil Parker's range as an actor was limited. Middle-aged, middle-class, pompous, blustering characters were his forte. Within that range, however, he produced a wide variety of characters from the kindly to the seedy and played everything from tiny bit parts to title roles.
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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.
