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Cecil Parker (3 September 1897 – 20 April 1971) was an English character and comedy actor with a distinctive husky voice, who usually played supporting roles in his 91 films made between 1928 and 1969. Born Cecil Schwabe in Hastings, Sussex, he began his theatrical career in London in 1922 after serving in World War I. He made his first film appearance in 1928 and subsequently became a familiar face in British, and occasionally American films, until his death. He appeared less often on television, but many of his films have remained popular and are often shown. He acted in two adaptations of A. J. Cronin's novels, The Citadel (1938) and The Stars Look Down (1940), in addition to appearing in The Lady Vanishes (1938) and Under Capricorn (1949), both of the later films were directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Other roles were in 23 Paces to Baker Street (1956), Dangerous Moonlight (1941), Swiss Family Robinson (1960), and I Was Monty's Double (1958), as well as the comedies A French Mistress (1960), The Ladykillers (1955), The Man in the White Suit (1951), The Court Jester (1955), Indiscreet (1958) and I Believe in You (1952). Parker was also the original Charles Condomine in the West End production of Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, a role subsequently played on Broadway by Clifton Webb and in the 1945 film by Rex Harrison. He often played a touchy senior officer or British upper-class character, and his last two films were true to form: The Magnificent Two (1967) with the British comedy double act Morecambe and Wise and Richard Attenborough's version of Oh! What A Lovely War (1969). He played an evil, scheming butler on one episode of The Avengers ("The £50,000 Breakfast"). Description above from the Wikipedia article Cecil Parker , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
as Self (archive)

Oh! What a Lovely War
as Sir John

The Magnificent Two
as Sir John

Circus of Fear
as Sir John

A Man Could Get Killed
as Sir Huntley Frazier

Lady L
as Sir Percy

A Study in Terror
as Prime Minister

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as The Mayor

Guns at Batasi
as Fletcher

The Comedy Man
as Thomas Rutherford

Sherlock Holmes

Carry On Jack
as First Sea Lord

The Iron Maiden
as Sir Giles Thompson

Heavens Above!
as Archdeacon Aspinall

The Amorous Prawn
as Gen. Sir Hamish Fitzadam

The Saint
as Lord Gillingham

The Brain
as Stevenson

Petticoat Pirates
as C-in-C

On the Fiddle
as Group Capt. Bascombe

The Avengers
as Glover

The Pure Hell of St Trinian's
as Professor Canford

Swiss Family Robinson
as Captain Moreland

Citizen James
as Himself

Under Ten Flags
as Colonel Howard

The Aquanauts
as Dr. Cattermole

A French Mistress
as John Crane M.A. Headmaster of Melbury School
Follow That Horse!

The Wreck of the Mary Deare
as Inquiry Chairman

The Night We Dropped a Clanger
as Air Vice-Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser

The Navy Lark
as Cmdr. Stanton

I Was Monty's Double
as Colonel E.F. Logan

Indiscreet
as Alfred Munson

Happy Is the Bride
as Arthur Royd

A Tale of Two Cities
as Jarvis Lorry

The Admirable Crichton
as Lord Henry Loam

True as a Turtle
as Dudley Partridge

It's Great to be Young!
as Frome, Headmaster

23 Paces to Baker Street
as Bob Matthews

The Court Jester
as King Roderick I

The Ladykillers
as Claude, alias 'Major Courtney'

Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as The Lawyer

The Constant Husband
as Llewellyn

For Better, for Worse
as John Purves

Father Brown
as The Bishop

Isn't Life Wonderful!
as Charles, the boy's father

I Believe in You
as Henry Phipps

His Excellency
as Sir James Kirkman

The Magic Box
as 1st Platform Man

The Man in the White Suit
as Alan Birnley
Tony Draws a Horse

Robert Montgomery Presents
as Sir Simon de Canterville

The Chiltern Hundreds
as Benjamin Beecham

Under Capricorn
as The Governor

Dear Mr. Prohack
as Arthur Prohack

Studio One
as Dr. Hans Hojda

Quartet
as Colonel George Peregrine (segment "The Colonel's Lady")

The Weaker Sex
as Geoffrey Radcliffe

The First Gentleman
as The Prince Regent

The Woman in the Hall
as Sir Halmar Barnard

Captain Boycott
as Capt. Charles C. Boycott