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Barnett Parker

Actor | * 09/11/1886 († 54, 08/05/1941) | Yorkshire / County of York (United Kingdom (UK))
Barnett Parker (September 11, 1886 – August 5, 1941) was a British actor. ()

Within the British colony of expatriate actors in Hollywood during the 1930's, Barnett Parker, born 11September 1886, inBatley, 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 Theatre as Wilfred Tavish in Arthur Wing Pinero's "The "Mind the Paint" Girl" in 1912. He was well served with further roles in hit plays like "Hobson's Choice" (1915), "Artists and Models" (1924) and "The Red Robe" (1928). He was at first prone to reject film offers, professing to favor acting on stage. Nonetheless, the celluloid medium eventually beckoned, enticing him to sign with the East Coast-based studio Thanhouser in 1915. He worked in films during the daytime (while treading the boards at night) and quickly landed a plum role as a weak socialite, rescuing Gladys Hulette in Prudence, the Pirate (1916). He was seldom thereafter afforded the opportunity for heroic acts. During the 1930's, he was primarily in demand for small roles as dandified or 'silly ass' Britishers, giving value for money in films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Personal Property (1937), Live, Love and Learn (1937) and Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937). Looking rather older than his years, Barnett Parker died at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles after multiple heart attacks on August 5, 1941.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Romance / Love | Drama

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Movies with Barnett Parker as Actor(44)

as (archive footage)1964 The Big Parade of Comedy
as George1941 A Man Betrayed
as Phillips1941 Kisses for Breakfast
as The Duke1941 New Wine
as Dragon (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)1941 The Reluctant Dragon
as Thompson, Steve's Butler (uncredited)1940 One Night in the Tropics
as George - Fred's Chauffeur1940 Love Thy Neighbor
as Hammond1940 La Conga Nights
as Samuel Stephens1940 Hullabaloo
as Huggins1940 He Married His Wife
as Photographer1939 Hotel for Women
as Whitcomb1939 At the Circus
as William1939 Babes in Arms
as Bekins, the Butler1939 She Married a Cop
as Abercrombie1938 Listen, Darling
as Maurice1938 Hold That Kiss
as Hotchkiss, Carlotta's Butler1938 Love Is a Headache
as Prince de Rohan1938 Marie Antoinette
as Bill Cordell1937 Espionage
as Minehardi1937 Dangerous Number
as Graves1937 Navy Blue and Gold
as Jerry Jason1937 Broadway Melody of 1938
as John Barkley1937 We Who Are About to Die
as Arthur Trevelyan1937 Personal Property
as Mr. Flint, Margit's Bookkeeper1937 Double Wedding
as Alfredo1937 Live, Love and Learn
as Foster1937 Wake Up and Live
as Albert, Stephan's Butler1937 The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Waters1936 Roaming Lady
as Butler (uncredited)1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
as Butler (uncredited)1936 Libeled Lady
as Floorwalker1936 Born to Dance
as Dining Car Man (uncredited)1936 The General Died at Dawn
as Primrose1936 A Girl's Best Years
as Steve1920 The Misleading Lady
as John Astorbilt1916 Prudence the Pirate

Full Name: Barnett Parker
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Saturday, 09/11 1886 (September) in Yorkshire / County of York (United Kingdom (UK))
Died: Tuesday, 08/05 1941 (August) in Los Angeles (aged: 54)
Zodiac sign: Virgo (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN)
Other names for Barnett Parker (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"William Barnett Parker"
Barnett Parker frequently works together with these people:
Cedric Gibbons (19x, Crew)
Douglas Shearer (13x, Crew)
Edwin B. Willis (10x, Crew)
Adrian (7x, Crew)
Edgar Dearing (7x, Actor)
Russell Hicks (6x, Actor)
Dolly Tree (6x, Crew)
Larry Steers (6x, Actor)
Edmund Mortimer (5x, Actor)
Franz Waxman (5x, Crew)
E. E. Clive (5x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:112658, Added: 06/27/2018, Last updated: 03/15/2024