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Robert Parrish
Directing
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…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
Hollywood Blues
as Self - director
Blue Bayou
as Tony
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
as 2nd Sophomore
History Is Made at Night
The Informer
as Young Soldier
Steamboat Round the Bend
as Boy
Doctor Bull
as Teenager
The Miracle Man
City Lights
as Newsboy (uncredited)
