Robert Parrish

Robert Parrish

1916-01-04 Columbus, Georgia, USA 50 Credits

Biography

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 fil...

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Sodankylä Forever

Sodankylä Forever

2010

as Self

Acting

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

Hollywood Blues

Hollywood Blues

1993

as Self - director

Acting

Having met him in 1993 when he was invited by Enrico Ghezzi to Taormina, Ciro Giorgini and Fabio Troncarelli film this interview with Robert Parrish, ...

Blue Bayou

Blue Bayou

1990

as Tony

Acting

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

Mississippi Blues

Mississippi Blues

1984

Director

7.1
Directing

The two directors meander through rural Mississippi in search of the spirit of local music and society. Highlights the heritage of William Faulkner, t...

The Marseille Contract

The Marseille Contract

1974

Director

5.9
Directing

An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to...

A Town Called Hell

A Town Called Hell

1971

Director

5.0
Directing

A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to t...

Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger

1969

Director

6.2
Directing

A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The Europe...

Duffy

Duffy

1968

Director

6.0
Directing

Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth wit...

Casino Royale

Casino Royale

1967

Director

5.2
Directing

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...

The Bobo

The Bobo

1967

Director

6.0
Directing

Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him,...

Up from the Beach

Up from the Beach

1965

Director

8.0
Directing

After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

In the French Style

In the French Style

1963

Director, Producer

5.6
Directing Producing

A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring h...

The Wonderful Country

The Wonderful Country

1959

Director

6.1
Directing

Having fled to Mexico from the U.S. many years ago for killing his father's murderer, Martin Brady travels to Texas to broker an arms deal for his Mex...

Saddle the Wind

Saddle the Wind

1958

Director

6.5
Directing

Steve Sinclair is a world-weary former gunslinger, now living as a peaceful farmer. Things go wrong when his wild younger brother Tony arrives on the ...

Fire Down Below

Fire Down Below

1957

Director

5.7
Directing

Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless I...

Lucy Gallant

Lucy Gallant

1955

Director

7.0
Directing

A spirited dressmaker's small store flourishes into a business empire in the midst of the Texas oil boom of the 1940s.

The Purple Plain

The Purple Plain

1954

Director

6.4
Directing

An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bitter man who lives haunted by a tragic past. He has...

Rough Shoot

Rough Shoot

1953

Director

6.2
Directing

An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hot...

My Pal Gus

My Pal Gus

1952

Director

7.0
Directing

A single father falls in love with his son's schoolteacher.

Assignment: Paris

Assignment: Paris

1952

Director

5.5
Directing

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a m...

The San Francisco Story

The San Francisco Story

1952

Director

4.8
Directing

After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn...

The Mob

The Mob

1951

Director

6.6
Directing

An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.

Cry Danger

Cry Danger

1951

Director

6.7
Directing

After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.

No Sad Songs for Me

No Sad Songs for Me

1950

Editorial Consultant

6.2

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daught...

All the King's Men

All the King's Men

1949

Editorial Consultant

7.0

A man of humble beginnings and honest intentions rises to power by nefarious means. Along for the wild ride are an earnest reporter, a heretofore clas...

Caught

Caught

1949

Editor

6.6

Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, vio...

No Minor Vices

No Minor Vices

1948

Editor

6.5

Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that h...

A Double Life

A Double Life

1947

Editor

6.3

A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

Body and Soul

Body and Soul

1947

Editor

6.7

Charley Davis, against the wishes of his mother, becomes a boxer. As he becomes more successful the fighter becomes surrounded by shady characters, in...

Five Came Back: The Reference Films

Five Came Back: The Reference Films

1946

Editor

Includes 12 World War II-era propaganda films.

That Justice Be Done

That Justice Be Done

1945

Editor

5.0

Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.

December 7th

December 7th

1943

Editor

5.8

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii a...

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines

1943

Editor

5.7

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.

The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway

1942

Editor

5.8

The Japanese attack on Midway in June 1942, filmed as it happened. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox F...

The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

Sound Effects Editor, Negative Cutter

7.8

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncl...

Stagecoach

Stagecoach

1939

Sound Effects Editor

7.6

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the proc...

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

1938

as 2nd Sophomore

9.0
Acting

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 the...

History Is Made at Night

History Is Made at Night

1937

6.7
Acting

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 he...

Steamboat Round the Bend

Steamboat Round the Bend

1935

as Boy

7.5
Acting

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 hange...

The Informer

The Informer

1935

as Young Soldier

6.7
Acting

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 i...

Doctor Bull

Doctor Bull

1933

as Teenager

6.5
Acting

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

The Miracle Man

The Miracle Man

1932

5.7
Acting

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 use...

City Lights

City Lights

1931

as Newsboy (uncredited)

8.3
Acting

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 suit...

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet

1931

as Copy Boy

Acting

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

The Right to Love

The Right to Love

1930

as Willie

5.3
Acting

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

Up the River

Up the River

1930

as Boy (uncredited)

5.8
Acting

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 St...

All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

1930

as Schoolboy (uncredited)

7.8
Acting

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 dest...

Anna Christie

Anna Christie

1930

as Boy at Coney Island (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

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 Minnes...

Riley the Cop

Riley the Cop

1928

as Boy

5.6
Acting

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.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927

as Boy (uncredited)

7.8
Acting

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