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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. Listen as daughter Sheila Sim asks him in the mildewed Dear Mr Prohack (d. Thornton Freeland, 1949): 'Daddy, you can't lend me a hundred pounds?' 'That is so', he answers, not ceasing to set the table the while. The timing, the absorption in the role of benign but unbudgeable father, is a minute illustration of what made Parker so cherishable.
On stage since 1922 and in films from 1933, he made his first real mark as 'Todhunter', the nervous would-be adulterer in The Lady Vanishes (d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1938), and twice more he and Linden Travers were involved in uneasy liaisons - in The Stars Look Down (d. Carol Reed, 1939), where she is bored with him, and Quartet (segment d. Ken Annakin, 1948), he always anxious about discovery.
He could be austerely unsympathetic as in the title role of Captain Boycott (d. Frank Launder, 1947) and in Hungry Hill (d. Brian Desmond Hurst, 1947); is wonderfully comic as the pained butler in The Chiltern Hundreds (d. John Paddy Carstairs, 1949) and the shifty 'Major' in The Ladykillers (d. A
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Cecilia Parker
Canadian-American actress (1914–1993)
For the American model and actress born Cecilia Ann Rene Parker, see Suzy Parker.
Cecilia Parker | |
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Parker in Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939) | |
| Born | (1914-04-26)April 26, 1914 Fort William, Ontario, Canada |
| Died | July 25, 1993(1993-07-25) (aged 79) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Years active | 1926–1942, 1958, 1984 |
| Spouse | Robert Baldwin (m. 1938) |
| Children | 3 |
Cecilia Parker (April 26, 1914 – July 25, 1993) was a Canadian-American film actress. She was best known for portraying Marian Hardy, the sister of Andy Hardy, in twelve films of the Andy Hardy series.
Early life and career
[edit]Cecilia Parker was born in Fort William, Ontario, Canada on April 26, 1914, to parents Naudy Anna and Thomas J. Parker. Her father was from England, where he had served in the British Army. The family moved to Los Angeles, California when she was a child, and Parker graduated from Immaculate Heart High School in 1931. Parker was selected from among a group of extras to attend the Fox Film studio training school for younger players.
Soon she was selected to play opposite George O'Brien in The Rainbow Trail (1932). The Rainbow Trail, written by