Barnett Parker
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1886-09-10 (55 years old)
Deathday
1941-08-05
Place of Birth
Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also known As
William Barnett Parker
Barnett Parker
Biography
Within the British colony of expatriate actors in Hollywood during the 1930's, Barnett Parker, born 11 September 1886, in Batley, Yorkshire, England, was among the most stereotypical. Harrowgate College-educated, straight-backed, balding and well-intoned, Parker caricatured a multitude of unctuous, stiff-upper-lip butlers, man-servants or waiters, though his performances could, at times, verge on the brink of being camp. When driven to frustration his characters commonly resorted to incoherent twitter or wild gesticulation. Parker was trained under Marie Tempest and George Alexander in England. He first acted on Broadway at the Lyceum Theat...
Acting
1937
as Mr. Flint, Margit's Bookkeeper
1941
as Dragon (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
1939
as Whitcomb
1937
as Jerry Jason
1937
as Arthur Trevelyan
1936
as Floorwalker
1937
as Albert, Stephan's Butler
1938
as Abercrombie
1941
as Quentin
1916
as The Duke
1916
as Book Agent
1920
as Steve
1936
as Roger
1937
as Tweed
1938
as Hugo
1940
as Huggins
1938
as Hotchkiss, Carlotta's Butler
1938
as Maurice
1937
as Foster
1938
as Oscar
1937
as Alfredo
1937
as John Barkley
1937
as Waiter
1937
as Graves
1939
as William
1937
as Bill Cordell
1936
as Butler (uncredited)
1936
as Butler (uncredited)
1939
as Bekins, the Butler
1939
as Photographer
1936
as Primrose
1940
as Thompson, Steve's Butler (uncredited)
1940
as Samuel Stephens
1940
as George - Fred's Chauffeur
1940
as Hammond
1937
as Minehardi
1941
as The Duke
1938
as Prince de Rohan
1936
as Waters
2004
as The Dragon (voice) (archive sound)
1964
as Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
1941
as George
1916
as John Astorbilt
1937
as Purser
1936
as Dining Car Man (uncredited)
1941
as Phillips
1915
as Bill - a Gentleman from the East
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