Robert R. Parrish (January 4, 1916December 4, 1995) was an American film director, screenwriter, editor and former child actor. He received an
Academy Award for Best Film Editing
The Academy Award for Best Film Editing is one of the annual awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). Nominations for this award are closely correlated with the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 33 consecutive years, ...
for his contribution to ''
Body and Soul'' (1947).
Life and career
Born in
Columbus, Georgia
Columbus is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of the U.S. state of Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. It is the county seat of Muscogee County, with which it ...
, Parrish was the son of Coca-Cola salesman Gordon R. Parrish and actress Laura R. Parrish. The Parrish siblings, including Beverly and
Helen
Helen may refer to:
People
* Helen of Troy, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman in the world
* Helen (actress) (born 1938), Indian actress
* Helen (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name)
Places
* Helen, ...
, entered into acting in the 1920s when the family moved to Los Angeles.
Acting
Parrish made his debut film appearance in the
Our Gang
''Our Gang'' (also known as ''The Little Rascals'' or ''Hal Roach's Rascals'') is an American series of comedy short films chronicling a group of poor neighborhood children and their adventures. Created by film producer Hal Roach, also the ...
short ''
Olympic Games
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
'' (1927). He then appeared in the classic ''
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' (1927); ''
Yale vs. Harvard'' (1928), another Our Gang short; ''
Mother Machree
''Mother Machree'' is a 1928 American silent drama film, directed by John Ford, based on the 1924 work ''The Story of Mother Machree'' by Rida Johnson Young about a poor Irish immigrant in America. Rida Johnson Young had invented Mother Machr ...
'' (1928) and ''
Four Sons
''Four Sons'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed and produced by John Ford and written for the screen by Philip Klein from a story by I. A. R. Wylie first published in the '' Saturday Evening Post'' as "Grandmother Bernle Learns Her ...
'' (1928) from John Ford; ''
Speedy
Speedy refers to something or someone moving at high speed.
Speedy may refer to:
Ships
* HMS ''Speedy'', nine ships of the Royal Navy
* ''Speedy''-class brig, a class of naval ship
* ''Speedy'' (1779), a whaler and convict ship despatched i ...
'' (1928) with Harold Lloyd; ''
Riley the Cop
''Riley the Cop'' is a 1928 American comedy film directed by John Ford. It was a silent film with a synchronized music track and sound effects.
Cast
* J. Farrell MacDonald as James "Aloysius" Riley (as Farrell Macdonald)
* Nancy Drexel as Mary ...
'' (1928) for Ford; ''
The Iron Mask
''The Iron Mask'' is a 1929 American part-talkie adventure film directed by Allan Dwan. It is an adaptation of the last section of the 1847-1850 novel ''The Vicomte de Bragelonne'' by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French l ...
'' (1929) with
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films including '' The Thie ...
; ''
The Divine Lady
''The Divine Lady'' is a 1929 American pre-Code Vitaphone sound film with a synchronized musical score, sound effects, and some synchronized singing, but no spoken dialogue. It stars Corinne Griffith and tells the story of the love affair betwe ...
'' (1929); ''
The Racketeer
''The Racketeer'' is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film. Directed by Howard Higgin, the film is also known as ''Love's Conquest'' in the United Kingdom. It tells the tale of some members of the criminal class in 1920s America, and in particular ...
'' (1929); ''
Anna Christie
''Anna Christie'' is a play in four acts by Eugene O'Neill. It made its Broadway debut at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 2, 1921. O'Neill received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for this work. According to historian Paul Avrich, the ...
'' (1930) with
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress. Regarded as one of the greatest screen actresses, she was known for her melancholic, somber persona, her film portrayals of tragedy, ...
; the anti-war film ''
All Quiet on the Western Front
''All Quiet on the Western Front'' (german: Im Westen nichts Neues, lit=Nothing New in the West) is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I. The book describes the German soldiers' extreme physical and mental trauma du ...
'' (1930); ''
The Big Trail
''The Big Trail'' is a 1930 American pre-Code Western early widescreen film shot on location across the American West starring 23-year-old John Wayne in his first leading role and directed by Raoul Walsh.
In 2006, the United States Library of ...
'' (1930) with
John Wayne
Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed The Duke or Duke Wayne, was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films made during Hollywood's Gol ...
; ''
Up the River
''Up the River'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film directed by John Ford, and starring Claire Luce, Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart. The plot concerns escaped convicts, as well as a female convict. It was the feature film debut role of ...
'' (1930) for Ford; ''
The Right to Love'' (1930) with
Ruth Chatterton
Ruth Chatterton (December 24, 1892 – November 24, 1961) was an American stage, film, and television actress, aviator and novelist. She was at her most popular in the early to mid-1930s, and in the same era gained prominence as an aviator, ...
;
Charles Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is consider ...
's ''
City Lights
''City Lights'' is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) and ...
'' (1931); ''
Scandal Sheet
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'' (1931); ''
I Take This Woman'' (1931); ''
Forbidden'' (1932) for
Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s ...
; ''
The Miracle Man'' (1932); and ''
Scandal for Sale
''Scandal for Sale'' is a 1932 American pre-Code drama film directed by Russell Mack and starring Charles Bickford, Rose Hobart and Pat O'Brien.Schindler p.25 The film's sets were designed by the art director Charles D. Hall.
Cast
* Charles B ...
'' (1932).
Parrish was in ''
This Day and Age
This Day and Age was a band from Tonawanda, a suburb of Buffalo, New York, signed to One Eleven Records.
History
This Day and Age formed in 2001, and released their debut full-length, ''Start Over on Monday'', in 2002. '' (1932) for
Cecil B. de Mille
Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cine ...
; ''
Doctor Bull'' (1933), ''
Judge Priest
''Judge Priest'' is a 1934 American comedy film starring Will Rogers. The film was directed by John Ford, produced by Sol M. Wurtzel in association with Fox Film, and based on humorist Irvin S. Cobb's character Judge Priest. The picture is set i ...
'' (1934), ''
The Whole Town's Talking
''The Whole Town's Talking'' (released in the UK as ''Passport to Fame'') is a 1935 American comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a law-abiding man who bears a striking resemblance to a killer, with Jean Arthur as his love interest. It w ...
'' (1935), and ''
The Informer'' (1935) for Ford; ''
The Crusades
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Latin Church in the medieval period. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were i ...
'' (1935) for de Mille; ''
Steamboat Round the Bend
''Steamboat Round the Bend'' is a 1935 American comedy film directed by John Ford, released by 20th Century Fox and produced by Fox Film Corporation, based on the 1933 novel of the same name by author Ben Lucien Burman. It was the final film mad ...
'' (1935) and ''
The Prisoner of Shark Island
''The Prisoner of Shark Island'' is a 1936 American drama film loosely based on the life of Maryland physician Samuel Mudd, who treated the injured presidential assassin John Wilkes Booth and later spent time in prison after his controversial co ...
'' (1936) for Ford; ''
Shipmates Forever
''Shipmates Forever'' is a 1935 American musical film directed by Frank Borzage and written by Delmer Daves. Set at the United States Naval Academy, the film stars Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, Lewis Stone, Ross Alexander, John Arledge, Eddie Ac ...
'' (1936); ''
One in a Million'' (1936) and ''
Thin Ice'' (1937) with
Sonia Henie
Sonja Henie (8 April 1912 – 12 October 1969) was a Norwegian figure skater and film star. She was a three-time Olympic champion (1928, 1932, 1936) in women's singles, a ten-time World champion (1927–1936) and a six-time European champion ...
; ''
History Is Made at Night'' (1937) for
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor, known for directing '' 7th Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), '' Bad Girl'' (1931), '' A Farewell to Arms'' (1932), ''Man's ...
; ''
It Could Happen to You!'' (1937); ''
Thrill of a Lifetime
''Thrill of a Lifetime'' is a television reality series (before that term was coined) created by Sidney M. Cohen (who also directed many of the episodes) and Willie Stein. It was telecast from 1981 to 1988 in Canada on the CTV network. ''Thril ...
'' (1938); ''
Having Wonderful Time
''Having Wonderful Time'' is a 1938 American romantic comedy film, based on the Broadway play of the same name, starring Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and directed by Alfred Santell. It was Red Skelton’s film debut.
Plot summary
Bo ...
'' (1938); ''
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off'' (1938); and ''
Dramatic School'' (1938).
Editor
Ford encouraged Parrish to work behind the scenes and put him on as an editing apprentice on ''The Informer''. He later hired Parrish as
assistant editor for ''
Mary of Scotland'' (1936). He worked on Ford films behind the scenes in editing and sound capacities, including ''
Stagecoach
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'' (1939), ''
Young Mr Lincoln'' (1939), ''
Drums Along the Mohawk
''Drums Along the Mohawk'' is a 1939 American historical drama western film based upon a 1936 novel of the same name by American author Walter D. Edmonds. The film was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and directed by John Ford. Henry Fonda and Clau ...
'' (1939), ''
The Grapes of Wrath
''The Grapes of Wrath'' is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939. The book won the National Book Award
and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and it was cited prominently when Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize ...
'' (1940), ''
The Long Voyage Home
''The Long Voyage Home'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by John Ford. It stars John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell and Ian Hunter. It features Barry Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson, John Qualen, Mildred Natwick, and Ward Bond, among others.
The f ...
'' (1940) and ''
Tobacco Road'' (1941).
Both Ford and Parrish served in the
United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...
during World War II, and together they also produced a number of documentary and
training film
A training film is a form of educational film – a short subject documentary movie, that provides an introduction to a topic. Both narrative documentary and dramatisation styles may be used, sometimes both in the same production. While most ...
s, including ''
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S. Navy under Ad ...
'' (1942), ''
How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
''Undercover'', also known as ''Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines'' and ''How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines'', is a 1943 Office of Strategic Services training film, directed by and featuring John Ford. It was edited by Ford's longtim ...
'' (1943), ''
German Industrial Manpower'', and ''
December 7th: The Movie'' (1943). Parrish also worked as editor on George Stevens' ''
That Justice Be Done
''That Justice Be Done'' was a one-reel American propaganda film directed by George Stevens and made in 1945 by the Office of War Information for the US Chief of Counsel at Nuremberg and the War Crimes Office of the Judge Advocate General's Corp ...
'' (1945), and ''
The Nazi Plan
''The Nazi Plan'' is a 1945 documentary film, compiled from extensive footage of captured Nazi propaganda and newsreel image and sound recordings. It was produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials for Hermann Göring and twenty ot ...
'' (1945).
When Parrish got out of the army he helped edit
Robert Rossen
Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades.
His 1949 film '' All the King's Men'' won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Be ...
's boxing drama ''
Body and Soul'' (1947). In 1947, Parrish shared the
Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the American and international film industry. The awards are regarded by many as the most prestigious, significant awards in the entertainment ind ...
, with co-nominee
Francis Lyon, for his work on the film.
Parrish went on to edit ''
A Double Life'' (1947) for
George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and film producer. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head of ...
, ''
No Minor Vices
''No Minor Vices'' is a 1948 American black-and-white comedy film written by Arnold Manoff and directed by Lewis Milestone with Robert Aldrich as 1st assistant director. Created for David Loew's Enterprise Productions, it was the first of three ...
'' (1948) for Lewis Milestone, and ''
Caught
Caught is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket. A batsman is out caught if the batsman hits the ball, from a legitimate delivery, with the bat, and the ball is caught by the bowler or a fielder before it hits the ground.
If the ball h ...
'' (1949) for
Max Ophüls
Maximillian Oppenheimer (; 6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957), known as Max Ophüls (; ), was a German-French film director who worked in Germany (1931–1933), France (1933–1940 and 1950–1957), and the United States (1947–1950). He made near ...
.
Parrish's second Academy Award nomination, shared with
Al Clark, was for the political drama directed by Rossen, ''
All the King's Men
''All the King's Men'' is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It was inspired by the real-life story of U.S ...
'' (1949). In the first versions done by Al Clark, the film was poorly received by preview audiences and studio executives. Parrish discovered that a "montage approach" was much more successful, with arbitrary cuts made a set time before and after each important action. In addition to the editing nomination for Clark and Parrish, the film won the Best Picture Award outright and was a popular success.
He also edited ''
No Sad Songs for Me
''No Sad Songs for Me'' is a 1950 film directed by Rudolph Maté, featuring Margaret Sullavan in her last film role as a woman dying of cancer. It was nominated for an Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are award ...
'' (1950) and ''
A Woman of Distinction
''A Woman of Distinction'' is a 1950 American romantic comedy film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Rosalind Russell and Ray Milland.
Plot
Susan Manning Middlecott is dean of a New England school called Benton College and it is her whole ...
'' (1950), as well as the documentary ''
Of Men and Music'' (1951).
Directing
Parrish made his directorial debut with the revenge drama ''
Cry Danger'' (1951). Parrish followed it with ''
The Mob'' (1951); and ''
The San Francisco Story
''The San Francisco Story'' is a 1952 American Western film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Joel McCrea and Yvonne De Carlo. The rough and tumble Barbary Coast of San Francisco is recreated with attention to detail, including Florence ...
'' (1952), with
Joel McCrea
Joel Albert McCrea (November 5, 1905 – October 20, 1990) was an American actor whose career spanned a wide variety of genres over almost five decades, including comedy, drama, romance, thrillers, adventures, and Westerns, for which he beca ...
.
Parrish replaced
Phil Karlson on ''
Assignment: Paris'' (1952) and did some uncredited work on ''
The Lusty Men
''The Lusty Men '' is a 1952 Western film released by Wald-Krasna Productions and RKO Radio Pictures starring Susan Hayward, Robert Mitchum, Arthur Kennedy and Arthur Hunnicutt. The picture was directed by Nicholas Ray and produced by Jerry W ...
'' (1952). He directed ''
My Pal Gus
''My Pal Gus'' is a 1952 comedy-drama film which follows Gus ( George Winslow), the young son of divorced industrialist Dave Jennings (Richard Widmark). Unable to cope with Gus' mischievous streak, Jennings places the boy in a day-care center. Gu ...
'' (1952) and ''
Rough Shoot
''Rough Shoot'', released in the USA as ''Shoot First'', is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Robert Parrish and written by Eric Ambler, based on the 1951 novel by Geoffrey Household. The film stars Joel McCrea, in his only postwar no ...
'' (1953).
''
The Purple Plain
''The Purple Plain'' is a 1954 British war film directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in the Burma campaign in the closing months of the Second World War, who is b ...
'' (1954) was nominated for the
Award for Best British Film at the
8th British Academy Film Awards
The 8th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1955, honored the best films of 1954.
Winners and nominees Best Film
'' Le Salaire de la peur''
*''The Caine Mutiny''
*'' Carrington V.C.''
*''The Divide ...
. Parrish followed it with ''
Lucy Gallant
''Lucy Gallant'' is a 1955 American drama film directed by Robert Parrish and written by John Lee Mahin and Winston Miller. The film stars Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter, William Demarest and Wallace Ford. The film wa ...
'' (1955), ''
Fire Down Below'' (1957), ''
Saddle the Wind
Saddle the Wind is a 1958 American Western film directed by Robert Parrish, written by Rod Serling, produced by Armand Deutsch, and starring Robert Taylor, Julie London and John Cassavetes. The picture was filmed in Metrocolor and CinemaScope. ...
'' (1958), and ''
The Wonderful Country
''The Wonderful Country'' (aka ''The Wonderful Country, A Novel'') is a 1952 Western novel written by Tom Lea. The book is set in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, and Texas and New Mexico in the United States. It was filmed in 1959.
After the ...
'' (1959).
He did an episode of ''
Johnny Staccato
''Johnny Staccato'' is an American private detective television series starring John Cassavetes which ran for 27 episodes on NBC from September 10, 1959 through March 24, 1960.
Synopsis
Titular character Johnny Staccato, played by John Cassavetes ...
'', "The Poet's Touch", and did several episodes of ''
The Twilight Zone
''The Twilight Zone'' is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy, science fiction, absurdism, dystopian fiction, suspense, horror, su ...
'', "
One for the Angels
"One for the Angels" is the second episode of the American anthology television series ''The Twilight Zone''. It originally aired on October 9, 1959, on CBS.
Opening narration
Plot
Lew Bookman is a kindly sidewalk pitchman who sells and repairs ...
", "
A Stop at Willoughby
"A Stop at Willoughby" is episode 30 of the American television anthology series ''The Twilight Zone''. Rod Serling cited this as his favorite story from the first season of the series.
Opening narration
Plot
Gart Williams is a contemporary New ...
" and "
The Mighty Casey
"The Mighty Casey" is episode thirty-five of the American television anthology series ''The Twilight Zone''. Its title is a reference to the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat". It originally aired on June 17, 1960 on CBS.
Opening narration
Plot
" ...
".
Parrish returned to features with ''
In the French Style
''In the French Style'' is a 1963 French-American romance film released by Columbia Pictures directed by Robert Parrish and stars Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker and Philippe Forquet. It was based on a short story by Irwin Shaw.
Plot
The young Ameri ...
'' (1963). He followed it with ''
Up from the Beach
''Up from the Beach'' is a 1965 French-American international co-production war film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons and James Robertson Justice. It was based on a 1959 novel by George Barr called ''Epitaph ...
'' (1965) and ''
The Bobo
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'' (1967) with Peter Sellers. He directed some of Sellers' scenes in the ''
James Bond
The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...
'' parody ''
Casino Royale'' (1967), he is credited among its five directors.
Parrish also directed ''
Duffy'' (1968), ''
Doppelgänger
A doppelgänger (), a compound noun formed by combining the two nouns (double) and (walker or goer) (), doppelgaenger or doppelganger is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person.
In fiction and mythology, a doppelg ...
'' (1969), ''
A Town Called Bastard
''A Town Called Bastard'' (also known as ''A Town Called Hell'' on DVD and Blu-ray) is a 1971 international co-production spaghetti Western. It was shot in Madrid with Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens and Martin Landau.
It was relea ...
'' (1971) and ''
The Marseille Contract'' (1974).
His final film, co-directed by
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier (25 April 1941 – 25 March 2021) was a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer.
Life and career
Tavernier was born in Lyon, France, the son of Geneviève (née Dumond) and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, s ...
, was ''
Mississippi Blues'' (1983).
He had an acting role in the film, ''Blue Bayou'' (1990).
Memoirs
Summing up Parrish's career, Allen Grant Richards commented that "Other than his excellent editing work and early directing, Parrish may be most remembered as storyteller from his two books of Hollywood memoirs." Filmmaker
Kevin Brownlow
Kevin Brownlow (born Robert Kevin Brownlow; 2 June 1938) is a British film historian, television documentary-maker, filmmaker, author, and film editor. He is best known for his work documenting the history of the silent era, having become inter ...
wrote of Parrish's first memoir, ''Growing Up In Hollywood'' (1976), "His stories about these pictures were marvellous in themselves, and he often came at them sideways, so not only the punchline but the situation took you by surprise. We all entreated him to write them down and in 1976 he did so, producing one of the most enchanting – and hilarious – books about the picture business ever written
.. 'Growing Up In Hollywood''ought to be reprinted in this centenary
irthyear."
The sequel, ''Hollywood Doesn't Live Here Anymore'' (1988), followed.
Selected filmography
Director
* ''
The Mob'' (1951)
* ''
Cry Danger'' (1951)
* ''
Remember That Face'' (1951)
* ''
Assignment – Paris!
''Assignment – Paris!'' is a 1952 American Cold War film noir directed by Robert Parrish and starring Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders and Audrey Totter.
Premise
Paris-based ''New York Herald Tribune'' reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) i ...
'' (1952)
* ''
My Pal Gus
''My Pal Gus'' is a 1952 comedy-drama film which follows Gus ( George Winslow), the young son of divorced industrialist Dave Jennings (Richard Widmark). Unable to cope with Gus' mischievous streak, Jennings places the boy in a day-care center. Gu ...
'' (1952)
* ''
Rough Shoot
''Rough Shoot'', released in the USA as ''Shoot First'', is a 1953 British thriller film directed by Robert Parrish and written by Eric Ambler, based on the 1951 novel by Geoffrey Household. The film stars Joel McCrea, in his only postwar no ...
'' (1953)
* ''
The Purple Plain
''The Purple Plain'' is a 1954 British war film directed by Robert Parrish, with Gregory Peck playing a Royal Canadian Air Force pilot serving in the Royal Air Force in the Burma campaign in the closing months of the Second World War, who is b ...
'' (1954)
* ''
Lucy Gallant
''Lucy Gallant'' is a 1955 American drama film directed by Robert Parrish and written by John Lee Mahin and Winston Miller. The film stars Jane Wyman, Charlton Heston, Claire Trevor, Thelma Ritter, William Demarest and Wallace Ford. The film wa ...
'' (1955)
* ''
Fire Down Below'' (1957)
* ''
Saddle the Wind
Saddle the Wind is a 1958 American Western film directed by Robert Parrish, written by Rod Serling, produced by Armand Deutsch, and starring Robert Taylor, Julie London and John Cassavetes. The picture was filmed in Metrocolor and CinemaScope. ...
'' (1958)
* ''
The Wonderful Country
''The Wonderful Country'' (aka ''The Wonderful Country, A Novel'') is a 1952 Western novel written by Tom Lea. The book is set in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, and Texas and New Mexico in the United States. It was filmed in 1959.
After the ...
'' (1959)
* ''
In the French Style
''In the French Style'' is a 1963 French-American romance film released by Columbia Pictures directed by Robert Parrish and stars Jean Seberg, Stanley Baker and Philippe Forquet. It was based on a short story by Irwin Shaw.
Plot
The young Ameri ...
'' (1963)
* ''
Up from the Beach
''Up from the Beach'' is a 1965 French-American international co-production war film directed by Robert Parrish and starring Cliff Robertson, Red Buttons and James Robertson Justice. It was based on a 1959 novel by George Barr called ''Epitaph ...
'' (1965)
* ''
Casino Royale'' (1967)
* ''
The Bobo
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...
'' (1967)
* ''
Duffy'' (1968)
* ''
Doppelgänger
A doppelgänger (), a compound noun formed by combining the two nouns (double) and (walker or goer) (), doppelgaenger or doppelganger is a biologically unrelated look-alike, or a double, of a living person.
In fiction and mythology, a doppelg ...
'' (1969)
* ''
A Town Called Bastard
''A Town Called Bastard'' (also known as ''A Town Called Hell'' on DVD and Blu-ray) is a 1971 international co-production spaghetti Western. It was shot in Madrid with Robert Shaw, Telly Savalas, Stella Stevens and Martin Landau.
It was relea ...
'' (1971)
* ''
The Marseille Contract'' (1974)
Editor
*''
The Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The U.S. Navy under Ad ...
'' (1942)
*''
How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines
''Undercover'', also known as ''Undercover: How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines'' and ''How to Operate Behind Enemy Lines'', is a 1943 Office of Strategic Services training film, directed by and featuring John Ford. It was edited by Ford's longtim ...
'' (1943)
*''
German Industrial Manpower'' (1943)
*''
December 7th (film)
''December 7th'' is a 1943 propaganda documentary film produced by the US Navy and directed by Gregg Toland and John Ford, about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the event which sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in Wo ...
'' (1943)
*''
That Justice Be Done
''That Justice Be Done'' was a one-reel American propaganda film directed by George Stevens and made in 1945 by the Office of War Information for the US Chief of Counsel at Nuremberg and the War Crimes Office of the Judge Advocate General's Corp ...
'' (1945)
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The Nazi Plan
''The Nazi Plan'' is a 1945 documentary film, compiled from extensive footage of captured Nazi propaganda and newsreel image and sound recordings. It was produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg Trials for Hermann Göring and twenty ot ...
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A Double Life'' (1947)
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Body and Soul'' (1947; with
Francis D. Lyon)
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No Minor Vices
''No Minor Vices'' is a 1948 American black-and-white comedy film written by Arnold Manoff and directed by Lewis Milestone with Robert Aldrich as 1st assistant director. Created for David Loew's Enterprise Productions, it was the first of three ...
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All the King's Men
''All the King's Men'' is a 1946 novel by Robert Penn Warren. The novel tells the story of charismatic populist governor Willie Stark and his political machinations in the Depression-era Deep South. It was inspired by the real-life story of U.S ...
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Al Clark)
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Caught
Caught is a method of dismissing a batsman in cricket. A batsman is out caught if the batsman hits the ball, from a legitimate delivery, with the bat, and the ball is caught by the bowler or a fielder before it hits the ground.
If the ball h ...
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No Sad Songs for Me
''No Sad Songs for Me'' is a 1950 film directed by Rudolph Maté, featuring Margaret Sullavan in her last film role as a woman dying of cancer. It was nominated for an Academy Award
The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are award ...
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W. Lyon)
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Of Men and Music'' (1951)
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