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.) He appeared in the anti-war classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and Charles Chaplin's City Lights (1931), and in several films for John Ford. Ford then enlisted him as an assistant editor in 1936 on Mary of Scotland, and as a sound editor on Young Mr Lincoln (1939). Parrish worked as an assistant editor and sound editor on other Ford movies as Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Parrish and Ford were in the United States Navy during the Second World War, and worked on documentary and training films including …

Directed

1. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Director
2. Casino Royale (1967) — Director
3. Doppelgänger (1969) — Director
4. The Twilight Zone (2002) — Director
5. The Wonderful Country (1959) — Director
6. The Purple Plain (1954) — Director
7. Cry Danger (1951) — Director
8. The Mob (1951) — Director
9. The Marseille Contract (1974) — Director
10. Fire Down Below (1957) — Director
11. Saddle the Wind (1958) — Director
12. A Town Called Bastard (1971) — Director
13. Assignment: Paris (1952) — Director
14. Duffy (1968) — Director
15. In the French Style (1963) — Director
16. Johnny Staccato (1959) — Director
17. The San Francisco Story (1952) — Director
18. Lucy Gallant (1955) — Director
19. Rough Shoot (1953) — Director
20. The Bobo (1967) — Director
21. Mississippi Blues (1984) — Director
22. My Pal Gus (1952) — Director
23. Up from the Beach (1965) — Director

Also appeared in

1. City Lights (1931) — Newsboy (uncredited)
2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) — Schoolboy (uncredited)
3. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) — Boy (uncredited)
4. The Informer (1935) — Young Soldier (uncredited)
5. Anna Christie (1930) — Boy at Coney Island (uncredited)
6. History Is Made at Night (1937)
7. Up the River (1930) — Boy (uncredited)
8. Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) — Boy
9. Doctor Bull (1933) — Teenager
10. Riley the Cop (1928) — Boy
11. The Miracle Man (1932)
12. Sodankylä Forever (2010) — Self
13. The Right to Love (1930) — Willie
14. Mr. Doodle Kicks Off (1938) — 2nd Sophomore
15. Scandal Sheet (1931) — Copy Boy
16. Blue Bayou (1990) — Tony
17. Hollywood Blues (1993) — Self - director