Willard Parker

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-02-06 (84 years old)

Deathday

1996-12-04

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Willard Parker

Biography

Willard Parker (born Worster Van Eps, February 5, 1912 – December 4, 1996) was an American film and television actor. He was a leading man under contract to Columbia Pictures in the 1940s and starred in the TV series Tales of the Texas Rangers (1955–58).

Acting

1948

You Gotta Stay Happy

as Henry Benson

1938

A Slight Case of Murder

as State Trooper Dick Whitewood

1953

Kiss Me Kate

as Tex Callaway

1953

The Vanquished

as Captain Kirby

1950

Hunt the Man Down

as Burnell 'Brick' Appleby

1951

Apache Drums

as Mayor Joe Madden

1957

Lure of the Swamp

as James Lister

1964

1937

That Certain Woman

as un reporter

1937

Alcatraz Island

as Reporter (uncredited)

1949

Bodyhold

as Tommy Jones

1956

Naked Gun

as Breen Mathews

1950

David Harding, Counterspy

as Commander Jerry Baldwin

1953

Sangaree

as Gabriel Thatch

1960

The High Powered Rifle

as Stephen Dancer

1960

Young Jesse James

as Cole Younger

1943

What a Woman

as Prof. Michael 'Mike' Cobb

1953

1948

1946

Renegades

as Dr. Sam Martin

1949

Slightly French

as Douglas Hyde

1950

The Bandit Queen

as Dan Hinsdale

1937

Over the Goal

as Duke Davis

1949

Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

as Sheriff Will Egan

1952

Caribbean

as Shively

1972

The Great Waltz

as Karl Treffz

1946

One Way to Love

as Mitchell Raymond

1950

1938

The Invisible Menace

as Pvt. Booker

1937

Love Is on the Air

as Les Quimby

1945

The Fighting Guardsman

as Baron François

1960

Walk Tall

as Captain Ed Trask

1937

Missing Witnesses

as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)

1937

1939

The Zero Hour

as Lansdowne

1948

Relentless

as Jeff Moyer

1962

Air Patrol

as Lt. Vern Tyler

1948

1951

My True Story

as Bill Phillips

1966

Waco

as Pete Jenner

1959

Lone Texan

as Clint Banister

1937

The Adventurous Blonde

as Clerk (uncredited)

1950

The Secret Fury

as Smith (uncredited)

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