Robert Parrish

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1916-01-04 (79 years old)

Deathday

1995-12-04

Place of Birth

Columbus, Georgia, USA

Robert Parrish

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 film debut in the 1927 Our Gang short Olympic Games. (Their mother, Laura R. Parrish, was an actress as well and appeared in a few films of the 1940s.) H...

Acting

1938

Mr. Doodle Kicks Off

as 2nd Sophomore

1927

1931

Scandal Sheet

as Copy Boy

1931

City Lights

as Newsboy (uncredited)

1928

1933

Doctor Bull

as Teenager

1930

1935

The Informer

as Young Soldier

1930

All Quiet on the Western Front

as Schoolboy (uncredited)

1930

Anna Christie

as Boy at Coney Island (uncredited)

1930

Up the River

as Boy (uncredited)

1990

Blue Bayou

as Tony

1993

Hollywood Blues

as Self - director

Production

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Sound Effects Editor

1959

1951

Cry Danger

as Director

1951

The Mob

as Director

1967

Casino Royale

as Director

1969

Doppelgänger

as Director

1947

A Double Life

as Editor

1949

Caught

as Editor

1971

1947

Body and Soul

as Editor

1954

The Purple Plain

as Director

1957

Fire Down Below

as Director

1974

1968

Duffy

as Director

1952

1958

Saddle the Wind

as Director

1952

My Pal Gus

as Director

1953

Rough Shoot

as Director

1955

Lucy Gallant

as Director

1967

The Bobo

as Director

1984

1963

1948

1939

Stagecoach

as Sound Effects Editor

1965

1963

1949

All the King's Men

as Editorial Consultant

1943

December 7th

as Editor

1950

No Sad Songs for Me

as Editorial Consultant

1940

The Grapes of Wrath

as Negative Cutter

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