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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sodankylä Forever
2010
as Self
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
1993
as Self - director
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
1990
as Tony
A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.

Mississippi Blues
1984
Director
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
1974
Director
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
1971
Director
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
1969
Director
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
1968
Director
Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth wit...

Casino Royale
1967
Director
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
1967
Director
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
1965
Director
After the D-Day landings in June 1944, a US squadron liberates a small village in Normandy from German occupation.

In the French Style
1963
Director, Producer
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
1959
Director
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
1958
Director
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
1957
Director
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
1955
Director
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
1954
Director
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
1953
Director
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
1952
Director
A single father falls in love with his son's schoolteacher.

Assignment: Paris
1952
Director
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
1952
Director
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
1951
Director
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.

Cry Danger
1951
Director
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
1950
Editorial Consultant
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
1949
Editorial Consultant
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
1949
Editor
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
1948
Editor
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
1947
Editor
A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

Body and Soul
1947
Editor
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
1946
Editor
Includes 12 World War II-era propaganda films.

That Justice Be Done
1945
Editor
Newsreel footage from both sides of World War II make a case for convicting Nazi war criminals.

December 7th
1943
Editor
"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
1943
Editor
A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.

The Battle of Midway
1942
Editor
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
1940
Sound Effects Editor, Negative Cutter
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
1939
Sound Effects Editor
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
1938
as 2nd Sophomore
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
1937
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
1935
as Boy
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
1935
as Young Soldier
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
1933
as Teenager
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
1932
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
1931
as Newsboy (uncredited)
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
1931
as Copy Boy
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

The Right to Love
1930
as Willie
A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.

Up the River
1930
as Boy (uncredited)
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
1930
as Schoolboy (uncredited)
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
1930
as Boy at Coney Island (uncredited)
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
1928
as Boy
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
1927
as Boy (uncredited)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.