Biography
Sydney Woodrow Parfrey (October 5, 1922 – July 29, 1984) was an American film and television actor from the 1950s to the early 1980s. He is often remembered as "one of TV's great slimeball villains".
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Sting II
1983
as Georgie
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that...

Frances
1982
as Dr. Doyle
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.

Jinxed!
1982
as Insurance Agent
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold ha...

The Seduction
1982
as Store Salesman
A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.

Back to the Planet of the Apes
1980
as Veska
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes. The men befriend a chimp named Galen who helps t...

Used Cars
1980
as Mr. Ghertner
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the ...

Bronco Billy
1980
as Dr. Canterbury
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.

Carny
1980
as W. C. Hannon
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with entertainers Frankie and Patch in a tense, emotional tr...

The Tenth Month
1979
as Tad Jones
An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist and decides to keep and raise the baby on her own.

The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979
as Messerschmidt
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring modern medicine to the local folks in the Appalach...

B.J. and the Bear
1978
as Store Proprietor
In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving chimpanzee named Bear, finds himself caught up with...

The New Maverick
1978
as Leveque
Gambling brothers Bret (James Garner) and Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) are, as usual, hot on the trail of a fast buck.

The Seniors
1978
as 1st Attorney
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business.
It's a Mile from Here to Glory
1978
as John Moody
A high school track star is involved in a life-threatening accident and now must learn to depend on others for his day-to-day living.

When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
1978
as Dr. Alexander Moss
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a store owner.

The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976
as Carpetbagger
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - ...

The Return of the World's Greatest Detective
1976
as Himmel
A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Along with the social worker who is...

Stay Hungry
1976
as Uncle Albert
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolished for a development project in Alabama. But after...

Valley Forge
1975
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.

Hearts of the West
1975
as Mr. Gates - Producer (uncredited)
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west to find his dream he finds himself in possession ...

Melvin Purvis G-Man
1975
as Nash Covington
Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.

The Family Nobody Wanted
1975
as Elmer Franklin
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find themselves with a family of a dozen kids.

This Is the West That Was
1974
as Mel Castlewaite
A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is targeted for revenge by some tough gunfighters.

Papillon
1973
as Clusiot
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his esca...

The Alpha Caper
1973
as Minister
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million armored car robbery.

Charley Varrick
1973
as Harold Young
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amount of money, they discover they stole a very large ...

Oklahoma Crude
1973
as Lawyer
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil...

Hunter
1973
as Tyson
A fatal crash at a racetrack injures a government agent and exposes an enemy brainwashing scheme.

No Place to Run
1972
as Motel Manager
An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and his grandfather run away.

A Very Missing Person
1972
as Eberhardt
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.

Dirty Harry
1971
as Mr. Jaffe
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for his take-no-prisoners approach to law enforcement...

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971
as Ike Godsey
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in th...

Cold Turkey
1971
as Tobacco Executive
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everyt...

Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
1971
as Doc Waters
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, he must find out who killed a visiting preacher.

Crowhaven Farm
1970
as Sam Wardwell
A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their marriage. When they learn the home was occupied lo...

The Andersonville Trial
1970
as Louis Schade
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate POW camp at Andersonville, Georgia.

The Movie Murderer
1970
as Linderman
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist who is burning down movie sets.

Silent Night, Lonely Night
1969
as Dr. Hyatt
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a me...

Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969
as Schneider
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into German territory. He is taken in by a Baroness who be...

Sam Whiskey
1969
as Thorston Bromley
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetly return them to the Federal Mint, from where they...

The Sunshine Patriot
1968
as Beamis
An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his ...

Madigan
1968
as Marvin
NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they are given a weekend to bring Benesch to justice. ...

Planet of the Apes
1968
as Dr. Maximus
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds him...

How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968
as Eddie Rankin
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.

The Flim-Flam Man
1967
as Super Market Manager
Mordecai Jones, a silver-tongued swindler and self-proclaimed “M.B.S., C.S., D.D.—Master of Back-Stabbing, Cork-Screwing and Double-Dealing,” has made...

The King's Pirate
1967
as Gow
Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates.

Scalplock
1966
as Holmes
This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a railroad line in a poker game and has his hands ful...

The War Lord
1965
as Piet
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the ...

Cattle King
1963
as Stafford (President Arthur's Secretary)
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.

Johnny Gunman
1957
as Sidney Wells
Set over the course of one night in New York, Johnny Gunman follows a tense battle between two mob boss hopefuls.

Wyoming Mail
1950
as Engineer (uncredited)
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized ...