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William Barnett Parker
Barnett Parker
Acting
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 Engla…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
as Dragon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
The Reluctant Dragon
as Dragon (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
Tall, Dark and Handsome
as Quentin
A Man Betrayed
as George
New Wine
as The Duke
Kisses for Breakfast
as Phillips
Hullabaloo
as Samuel Stephens
He Married His Wife
as Huggins
One Night in the Tropics
as Thompson, Steve's Butler (uncredited)