Robert Parrish(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 (1931) by Charles Chaplin and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930). As an editor he won an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947), the 1947 Robert Rossen film that starred John Garfield as a money-grubbing, two-timing boxer on the make. Parrish also worked on All the King's Men (1949), an account of the rise and fall of a Louisiana politician that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Parrish then moved on to direct films during the 1950s and 1960s. Among his best received works was the brooding western Saddle the Wind (1958).

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Won 1 Oscar
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Known for

Casino Royale

5.0

Director(scenes with Peter Sellers and Orson Welles)

1967

Body and Soul

7.6

Editor

1947

All the King's Men

7.4

Editorial Department

1949

In the French Style

6.6

Director

1963

Credits

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Actor

Blue Bayou
6.5
TV Movie
- Tony
- 1990
Dramatic School
6.2
- Student (uncredited)
- 1938
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
3.7
- 2nd Sophomore (as Bob Parris)
- 1938
Having Wonderful Time
6.0
- Camp Guest (uncredited)
- 1938
Thrill of a Lifetime
5.7
- Chorus Boy (uncredited)
- 1937
Thin Ice
6.3
- (uncredited)
- 1937
It Could Happen to You
6.1
- Runner (uncredited)
- 1937
History Is Made at Night
7.3
- Ship Passenger (uncredited)
- 1937
One in a Million
5.9
- (uncredited)
- 1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island
7.2
- Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- 1936
Steamboat Round the Bend
6.8
- Boy (uncredited)
- 1935
The Crusades
6.5
- Extra (uncredited)
- 1935
Shipmates Forever
6.0
- Extra (uncredited)
- 1935
The Informer
7.4
- Young Soldier (uncredited)
- 1935
The Whole Town's Talking
7.3
- Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- 1935

Director

Mississippi Blues
6.6
- Director
- 1983
The Destructors
5.9
- Director
- 1974
A Town Called Hell
5.0
- Director
- 1971
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
6.3
- Director
- 1969
Duffy
5.7
- Director
- 1968
Casino Royale
5.0
- Director (scenes with Peter Sellers and Orson Welles)
- 1967
The Bobo
5.5
- Director
- 1967
Up from the Beach
6.1
- Director
- 1965
In the French Style
6.6
- Director
- 1963
The Twilight Zone
9.0
TV Series
- Director
- 1959–1960
Johnny Staccato
7.9
TV Series
- Director
- 1959
The Wonderful Country
6.1
- Director
- 1959
Saddle the Wind
6.6
- Director
- 1958
Fire Down Below
6.0
- Director
- 1957
Lucy Gallant
6.3
- Director
- 1955

Editor

Of Men and Music
7.9
- Editor
- 1951
A Woman of Distinction
6.6
- Editor (uncredited)
- 1950
Caught
7.0
- Editor
- 1949
No Minor Vices
5.6
- Editor
- 1948
A Double Life
6.9
- Editor
- 1947
Body and Soul
7.6
- Editor
- 1947
The Nazi Plan
6.9
- Editor
- 1945
That Justice Be Done
6.8
Short
- Editor
- 1945
Undercover
6.1
- Editor
- 1944
German Industrial Manpower
5.0
- Editor
- 1943
December 7th
6.1
- Editor
- 1943
The Battle of Midway
6.1
Short
- Editor
- 1942
Young Mr. Lincoln
7.5
- Editor (uncredited)
- 1939

Personal details

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Alternative name
- Bob Parris
Born
- January 4, 1916
- Columbus, Georgia, USA
Died
- December 4, 1995
- Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA(undisclosed)
Spouse
- Kathleen ThompsonSeptember 18, 1942 - ?
Parents
- Laura R. Parrish
Relatives
Publicity listings
- 2 Print Biographies
- 1 Article

Did you know

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Trivia
A couple of years after directing his last feature film, The Destructors (1974) Parrish published his autobiography, "Growing Up In Hollywood", which largely avoids mention of his directing career. The book was a big best-seller and was critically acclaimed, one British critic going so far as to say that it was so well-written, "one wonders if he hasn't been in the wrong business all along.".

Quotes
[on visiting John Ford on his deathbed] We talked about zoom lenses (he didn't approve), John Wayne (he approved), [Henry Fonda] (he approved), Patrick Kelley (he approved, but wished Kelley hadn't turned executive--"Terrible thing for a good sound-effects cutter to allow himself to become the president of a successful film-producing company") . . . . He then said, "Have you won any more Oscars?" I told him I hadn't, and he said, "It turns out they're not as unimportant as I thought, so you should go ahead and win as many as you can".