About
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 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...
Known for
The Twilight ZoneSeries • 1959
The Twilight ZoneSeries • 2002
Casino RoyaleMovie • 1967
Johnny StaccatoSeries • 1959
City LightsMovie • 1931
The Grapes of WrathMovie • 1940
All Quiet on the Western FrontMovie • 1930
Sunrise: A Song of Two HumansMovie • 1927
StagecoachMovie • 1939
All the King's MenMovie • 1949
The InformerMovie • 1935
The Marseille ContractMovie • 1974
The Purple PlainMovie • 1954
A Double LifeMovie • 1947
The Wonderful CountryMovie • 1959
Body and SoulMovie • 1947
A Town Called BastardMovie • 1971
The Battle of MidwayMovie • 1942
The MobMovie • 1951
DoppelgängerMovie • 1969
History Is Made at NightMovie • 1937
Fire Down BelowMovie • 1957
Saddle the WindMovie • 1958
CaughtMovie • 1949