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Learn about Cecil Parker on Apple TV. Browse shows and movies that feature Cecil Parker including Swiss Family Robinson, The Lady Vanishes, and more.
Paradise Lagoon (a.k.a The Admirable Crichton, 1958) -- (Movie Clip) That Was The French After an extended domestic pantomime for the credits, Crichton (Kenneth More) awakens Lord Loam (Cecil Parker), who has a surprise for his daughters (Sally Ann Howes, Mercy Haystead, Miranda Connell), in Paradise Lagoon, 1958, from J.M. Barrie's better-known play The Admirable Crichton, 1958.
[Tim Parker on Cecil Parker] 'My memories are of a gentle, courteous man, a little shy, but with a great sense of humour. He was fun to be with and everybody who knew him liked him.'
An air of almost smug disdain would hang over his characters like a grey cloud. Yet he could end up being a ray of sunshine with that cloud. Stage or screen, comedy or drama, playing butler or Lord Commander, Englishman Cecil Parker was born in 1897 and took an avid interest in performing following his discharge from World War I military service.
Other articles where Cecil Parker is discussed: Swiss Family Robinson: …different ship, Captain Moreland (Cecil Parker) and his grandson. The two oldest Robinson boys manage to free the grandson, whom they soon discover is actually a girl (Janet Munro). The family is later attacked by the pirates and about to be overrun when Captain Moreland, who had been able…
Cecil Parker was one of the great character actors from their golden age, the '30s to the '60s. He could be menacing or authoritative or simply stuffy; he could draw the water of wit from the stone of the most unyielding dialogue. Listen as daughter Sheila Sim asks him in the mildewed Dear Mr Prohack (d.
Cecil Vivian Parker. Air Vice Marshal Cecil Vivian Parker, MVC, VM is a former air officer of the Indian Air Force. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, he was awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest military decoration. He last served as the Commandant of the Air Force Academy .
