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Robert Parrish (I) (1916–1995)

Actor | Director | Editor

Robert Parrish was an Academy Award-winning film editor who also directed and acted in movies. As a child he appeared in films during the early 1930s, such as City Lights by Charles Chaplin and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front. As an editor he won an Academy Award for Body and Soul, the 1947 Robert Rossen film that starred John Garfield as a money-grubbing... See full bio »

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in Columbus, Georgia, USA

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(age 79) in Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA
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1990 Blue Bayou (TV movie)
Tony
 
1938 Dramatic School
Student (uncredited)
 
1938 Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
2nd Sophomore (as Bob Parris)
 
1938 Having Wonderful Time
Extra (uncredited)
 
1937 Thrill of a Lifetime
Chorus Boy (uncredited)
 
1937 Thin Ice (uncredited)
 
1937 It Could Happen to You!
Runner (uncredited)
 
1937 History Is Made at Night
Ship Passenger (uncredited)
 
1936 One in a Million (uncredited)
 
1936 The Prisoner of Shark Island (uncredited)
 
1935 Shipmates Forever
Extra (uncredited)
 
1935 Steamboat Round the Bend
Boy (uncredited)
 
1935 The Crusades
Extra (uncredited)
 
1935 The Informer
Young Soldier (uncredited)
 
1935 The Whole Town's Talking
Bit Part (uncredited)
 
1934 Judge Priest
Taffy Puller at Festival (uncredited)
 
1933 Doctor Bull
Teenager (uncredited)
 
1933 This Day and Age
Student (uncredited)
 
1932 Scandal for Sale
Copyboy (uncredited)
 
1932 The Miracle Man
Bellhop (uncredited)
 
1932 Forbidden
Office Boy (uncredited)
 
1931 I Take This Woman
Boy (uncredited)
 
1931 Scandal Sheet
Copy Boy (uncredited)
 
1931 City Lights
Newsboy (uncredited)
 
1930 The Right to Love
Willie
 
1930 Up the River
Boy (uncredited)
 
1930 The Big Trail
Pioneer Boy (uncredited)
 
1930 All Quiet on the Western Front
Schoolboy (uncredited)
 
1930 Men Without Women
Boy (scenes deleted) (uncredited)
 
1929 The Racketeer
Street Urchin (uncredited)
 
1929 The Divine Lady
Powder Monkey (uncredited)
 
1929 The Iron Mask
Page (uncredited)
 
1928 Riley the Cop
Boy (uncredited)
 
1928 Four Sons
Joseph's Son (uncredited)
 
1928 Mother Machree
Extra (uncredited)
 
1927 Yale vs. Harvard (short)
Kid Who Gets Hammered
 
1927 Sunrise
Boy (uncredited)
 
1927 Olympic Games (short) (unconfirmed)
 
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1983 Mississippi Blues (documentary)
 
1974 The Destructors
 
1971 A Town Called Hell
 
1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
 
1968 Duffy
 
1967 The Bobo
 
1967 Casino Royale (scenes with Peters Sellers and Orson Welles)
 
1965 Up from the Beach
 
1963 In the French Style
 
1959-1960 Twilight Zone (TV series)
– The Mighty Casey (1960)
– A Stop at Willoughby (1960)
– One for the Angels (1959)
 
1959 Johnny Staccato (TV series)
– The Poet's Touch (1959)
 
1959 The Wonderful Country
 
1958 Saddle the Wind
 
1957 Fire Down Below
 
1955 Lucy Gallant
 
1954 The Purple Plain
 
1953 Shoot First
 
1952 My Pal Gus
 
1952 The Lusty Men (uncredited)
 
1952 Assignment: Paris
 
1952 The San Francisco Story
 
1951 The Mob
 
1951 Cry Danger
 
Show ShowEditor (13 titles)
1951 Of Men and Music (documentary)
 
1950 A Woman of Distinction (uncredited)
 
1949 Caught
 
1948 No Minor Vices
 
1947 A Double Life (film editor)
 
1947 Body and Soul
 
1945 The Nazi Plan (documentary)
 
1945 That Justice Be Done (documentary short)
 
1943 December 7th
 
1943 German Industrial Manpower (documentary)
 
1943 How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines (documentary)
 
1942 The Battle of Midway (documentary short)
 
1939 Young Mr. Lincoln (uncredited)
 
Show ShowSound Department (6 titles)
1941 Tobacco Road (sound effects editor - uncredited)
 
1940 The Long Voyage Home (sound editor - uncredited)
 
1940 The Grapes of Wrath (sound effects editor - uncredited)
 
1939 Drums Along the Mohawk (sound effects editor - uncredited)
 
1939 Young Mr. Lincoln (sound effects editor - uncredited)
 
1939 Stagecoach (sound effects editor - uncredited)
 
Show ShowEditorial Department (5 titles)
1950 No Sad Songs for Me (editorial advisor)
 
1949 All the King's Men (editorial adviser)
 
1940 The Grapes of Wrath (negative cutter - uncredited)
 
1936 Mary of Scotland (assistant editor - uncredited)
 
1935 The Informer (apprentice editor - uncredited)
 
Show ShowProducer (2 titles)
1983 Mississippi Blues (documentary) (producer)
 
1963 In the French Style (producer)
 
1939 Gunga Din (assistant director - uncredited)
 
1938 Having Wonderful Time (third assistant director - uncredited)
 
Show ShowWriter (1 title)
1983 Mississippi Blues (documentary) (writer)
 
Show ShowThanks (2 titles)
2007 Hannibal Rising (thanks)
 
1999 The F.B.I. Files (TV series documentary) (special thanks - 1 episode)
– The True Story of Mississippi Burning (1999) (special thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (6 titles)
2010 Sodankylä ikuisesti (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Ensimmäisen elokuvamuiston kaiho (2010) … Himself
– Elokuvan vuosisata (2010) … Himself
– Ikuinen aika (2010) … Himself
– Valon draama (2010) … Himself
 
2006 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Himself
– John Ford/John Wayne: The Filmmaker and the Legend (2006) … Himself
 
1993 John Ford (TV documentary)
Himself
 
1992 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
Himself - Assistant Editor
– John Ford: Part One (1992) … Himself - Assistant Editor
 
1983 Unknown Chaplin (TV mini-series documentary)
Himself
– The Great Director (1983) … Himself (also archive footage)
 
1979 Hollywood Greats (TV series documentary)
Himself
– Charles Chaplin (1979) … Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (2 titles)
2004 Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic (TV documentary)
Himself - Interviewee
 
2002 John Ford Goes to War (documentary)
Himself
 

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Alternate Names:

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Son of actress Laura R. Parrish. See more »

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