Robert Parrish

Robert Parrish

Robert R. Parrish (born 4 January 1916, Columbus, Georgia – 4 December 1995, Southampton, New York) was an American actor, film editor, film director, and writer. He received an Academy Award for Film Editing for the 1947 film, Body and Soul. Parrish was the son of factory cashier Gordon R. Parrish and Laura R. Parrish. In the mid-1920s, the family moved from Georgia to Los Angeles and Parrish and his sisters Beverly and Helen began obtaining work as actors soon thereafter. Parrish made his film debut in the 1927 Our Gang short Olympic Games. (Their mother, Laura R. Parrish, was an actress as well and appeared in a few films of the 1940s.) He appeared in the anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Charles Chaplin's City Lights (1931), and in several films for John Ford. Ford then enlisted him as an assistant editor in 1936 on Mary of Scotland, and as a sound editor on Young Mr Lincoln (1939). Parrish worked as an assistant editor and sound editor on other Ford movies as Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Parrish and Ford were in the United States Navy during the Second World War, and worked on documentary and training films including The Battle of Midway (1942). In 1947 he won an Oscar for his debut as a feature film editor on Robert Rossen's high tempo boxing drama Body and Soul; the award was shared with Francis Lyon. Parrish was later nominated for another Rossen film – the political drama All the King’s Men (1949); he shared the nomination with Al Clark. Parrish went on to contribute his technical talents to a host of highly regarded films and made a promising directorial debut in 1951 with the gripping revenge melodrama, Cry Danger. His subsequent output met with varying success. The Purple Plain (1954) was nominated for "Best British film" at the 8th British Academy Film Awards. One of the most notorious of his films was the James Bond Parody Casino Royale (1967), in which he was one of the film's five directors. His last film, on which he shared co-director credit with Bertrand Tavernier, was Mississippi Blues (1983). Parrish wrote two memoirs, Growing Up in Hollywood (1976) and its sequel Hollywood Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1988). Of the first, Kevin Brownlow wrote, "His stories about these pictures were marvellous in themselves, and he often came at them sideways, so not only the punchline but the situation took you by surprise. We all entreated him to write them down and in 1976 he did so, producing one of the most enchanting - and hilarious - books about the picture business ever written. It was called Growing Up in Hollywood and it ought to be reprinted in this centenary year." Summing up Parrish's career, Allen Grant Richards wrote, "Other than his excellent editing work and early directing, Parrish may be most remembered as storyteller from his two books of Hollywood memoirs."

  • Title: Robert Parrish
  • Popularity: 3.317
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1916-01-04
  • Place of Birth: Columbus, Georgia, USA
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Robert Parrish Movies

  • 1932
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    The Miracle Man

    The Miracle Man

    5.667 1932 HD

    A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and...

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  • 1937
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    History Is Made at Night

    History Is Made at Night

    6.6 1937 HD

    An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep...

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  • 1938
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    Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

    Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

    9 1938 HD

    A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at...

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  • 1927
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    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    7.844 1927 HD

    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

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  • 1931
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    Scandal Sheet

    Scandal Sheet

    1 1931 HD

    Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

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  • 1931
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    City Lights

    City Lights

    8.277 1931 HD

    A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and...

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  • 1928
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    Riley the Cop

    Riley the Cop

    5.6 1928 HD

    In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

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  • 1930
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    The Big Trail

    The Big Trail

    6.7 1930 HD

    Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth...

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  • 1933
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    Doctor Bull

    Doctor Bull

    6.6 1933 HD

    In this engaging adaptation of James Gould Cozzen's novel The Last Adam, film icon Will Rogers portrays Dr. George Bull, a compassionate, highly...

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  • 1935
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    Steamboat Round the Bend

    Steamboat Round the Bend

    7.5 1935 HD

    A Louisiana con man enters his steamboat into a winner-take-all race with a rival while trying to find a witness to free his nephew, about to be...

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  • 1930
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    The Right to Love

    The Right to Love

    5.5 1930 HD

    A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

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  • 1935
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    The Informer

    The Informer

    6.714 1935 HD

    Gypo Nolan is a former Irish Republican Army man who drowns his sorrows in the bottle. He's desperate to escape his bleak Dublin life and start over...

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  • 1930
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    All Quiet on the Western Front

    All Quiet on the Western Front

    7.761 1930 HD

    When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is...

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  • 1930
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    Anna Christie

    Anna Christie

    6.1 1930 HD

    Old sailor Chris Christofferson eagerly awaits the arrival of his grown daughter Anna, whom he sent at five years old to live with relatives in...

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  • 1930
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    Up the River

    Up the River

    6 1930 HD

    Daily life at men and women's prison units where baseball and the marching band are serious business. Two prisoners escape in order to help paroled...

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  • 2010
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    Sodankylä Forever

    Sodankylä Forever

    1 2010 HD

    The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets....

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  • 1990
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    Blue Bayou

    Blue Bayou

    1 1990 HD

    A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.

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  • 1940
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    The Grapes of Wrath

    The Grapes of Wrath

    7.828 1940 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Wonderful Country

    The Wonderful Country

    6.1 1959 HD

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  • 1951
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    Cry Danger

    Cry Danger

    6.7 1951 HD

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  • 1951
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    The Mob

    The Mob

    6.6 1951 HD

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  • 1967
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    Casino Royale

    Casino Royale

    5.3 1967 HD

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  • 1969
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    Doppelgänger

    Doppelgänger

    6.197 1969 HD

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  • 1947
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    A Double Life

    A Double Life

    6.299 1947 HD

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  • 1949
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    Caught

    Caught

    6.5 1949 HD

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  • 1971
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    A Town Called Hell

    A Town Called Hell

    4.9 1971 HD

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  • 1947
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    Body and Soul

    Body and Soul

    6.7 1947 HD

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  • 1954
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    The Purple Plain

    The Purple Plain

    6.4 1954 HD

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  • 1957
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    Fire Down Below

    Fire Down Below

    5.8 1957 HD

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  • 1974
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    The Marseille Contract

    The Marseille Contract

    5.8 1974 HD

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  • 1968
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    Duffy

    Duffy

    6 1968 HD

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  • 1952
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    Assignment: Paris

    Assignment: Paris

    5.5 1952 HD

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  • 1958
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    Saddle the Wind

    Saddle the Wind

    6.5 1958 HD

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  • 1952
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    My Pal Gus

    My Pal Gus

    7 1952 HD

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  • 1953
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    Rough Shoot

    Rough Shoot

    6.2 1953 HD

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  • 1955
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    Lucy Gallant

    Lucy Gallant

    7 1955 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Bobo

    The Bobo

    6 1967 HD

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  • 1984
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    Mississippi Blues

    Mississippi Blues

    7.1 1984 HD

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  • 1963
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    In the French Style

    In the French Style

    5.5 1963 HD

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  • 1952
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    The San Francisco Story

    The San Francisco Story

    4.8 1952 HD

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  • 1948
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    No Minor Vices

    No Minor Vices

    6.8 1948 HD

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  • 1939
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    Stagecoach

    Stagecoach

    7.614 1939 HD

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  • 1965
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    Up from the Beach

    Up from the Beach

    8 1965 HD

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  • 1963
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    In the French Style

    In the French Style

    5.5 1963 HD

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  • 1943
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    Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

    Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

    5.7 1943 HD

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  • 1949
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    All the King's Men

    All the King's Men

    7 1949 HD

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  • 1943
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    December 7th

    December 7th

    5.7 1943 HD

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  • 1945
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    That Justice Be Done

    That Justice Be Done

    5 1945 HD

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  • 1942
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    The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway

    5.824 1942 HD

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  • 1950
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    No Sad Songs for Me

    No Sad Songs for Me

    6.2 1950 HD

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  • 1970
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    5.6 1970 HD

    Johnny Staccato is an American private detective series which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.

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  • 1970
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    8.4 1970 HD

    A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a...

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  • 1970
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    7.191 1970 HD

    A 2002 revival of Rod Serling's 1950/60s television series, The Twilight Zone, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and...

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