ROBERT PARRISH
Information from IMDb
Date of Birth
4 January 1916,
Columbus, Georgia, USA
Date of Death
4 December 1995,
Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA
Nickname
Bobby
Spouse
Kathleen Thompson (18 September 1942 - ?)
Trivia
Son of actress Laura R. Parrish.
Brother of actresses Beverly Parrish, Helen Parrish
Mini Biography-1
Robert Parrish was an Academy Award-winning film editor who also directed and acted in movies.
As a child he appeared in films during the early 1930s, such as City Lights (1931) by Charles Chaplin
and Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front (1930).
As an editor he won an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947),
the 1947 Robert Rossen film that starred John Garfield as a money-grubbing,
two-timing boxer on the make. Parrish also worked on All the King's Men (1949),
an account of the rise and fall of a Louisiana politician that won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Parrish then moved on to direct films during the 1950s and 1960s.
Among his best received works was the brooding western Saddle the Wind (1958).
IMDb Mini Biography By: A. Nonymous
Mini Biography-2
Robert R. Parrish 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 The Battle of Midway (1942).
In 1947 he won an Oscar for his debut as a feature film editor on Robert Rossen's
high tempo boxing drama Body and Soul; the award was shared with Francis Lyon.
Parrish was later nominated for another Rossen film – the political drama All the King’s Men (1949);
he shared the nomination with Al Clark.
Parrish went on to contribute his technical talents to a host of highly regarded films
and made a promising directorial debut in 1951 with the gripping revenge melodrama, Cry Danger.
His subsequent output met with varying success. The Purple Plain (1954) was nominated
for "Best British film" at the 8th British Academy Film Awards.
One of the most notorious of his films was the James Bond Parody Casino Royale (1967),
in which he was one of the film's five directors.
His last film, on which he shared co-director credit with Bertrand Tavernier, was Mississippi Blues (1983).
Parrish wrote two memoirs, Growing Up in Hollywood (1976)
and its sequel Hollywood Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1988).
Of the first, Kevin Brownlow wrote, "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.
It was called Growing Up in Hollywood and it ought to be reprinted in this centenary year."
Summing up Parrish's career, Allen Grant Richards wrote,
"Other than his excellent editing work and early directing,
Parrish may be most remembered as storyteller from his two books of Hollywood memoirs."
Salary
The Big Trail (1930) $45/week
History Is Made at Night (1937) $10/day
Robert Parrish was another member of the John Ford Stock Company,
and made 10 films for him, 4 of which included Duke.
The Big Trail (1930)...Pioneer Boy (uncredited)
Men Without Women (1930)...Boy (scenes deleted) (uncredited)
Four Sons (1928)...Joseph's Son (uncredited)
Mother Machree (1928)...Extra (uncredited)
