Robert Parrish

Ator, Diretor, Editor, Produtor, Escritor

4 de janeiro de 1916 — 4 de dezembro de 1995 (79 anos)
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 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."

Filmes e Séries no Plex

  • No Tempo das Diligências
    No Tempo das Diligências1939
  • Aurora
    Aurora1927
  • A Mocidade de Lincoln
    A Mocidade de Lincoln1939
  • Corpo e Alma
    Corpo e Alma1947
  • O Prisioneiro da Ilha dos Tubarões
    O Prisioneiro da Ilha dos Tubarões1936
  • Juiz Priest
    Juiz Priest1934
  • Terra Ensanguentada
    Terra Ensanguentada1954
  • Uma Cidade Chamada Bastardo
    Uma Cidade Chamada Bastardo1971
  • Pecadores de San Francisco
    Pecadores de San Francisco1952

Conhecido Por

  • Cassino Royale
    Cassino Royale1967
  • Corpo e Alma
    Corpo e Alma1947
  • A Grande Ilusão
    A Grande Ilusão1949
  • Além da Imaginação
    Além da Imaginação5 temporadas
  • Odisséia Para Além do Sol
    Odisséia Para Além do Sol1969
  • Golpe do Destino
    Golpe do Destino1951
  • Incógnito
    Incógnito1951
  • Terra Ensanguentada
    Terra Ensanguentada1954
  • Nas Margens do Rio Grande
    Nas Margens do Rio Grande1959
  • Lábios de Fogo
    Lábios de Fogo1957
  • Paixão de Bravo
    Paixão de Bravo1952
  • Contrato com Marselha
    Contrato com Marselha1974
  • Irmão Contra Irmão
    Irmão Contra Irmão1958
  • Toureiro sem Sorte
    Toureiro sem Sorte1967
  • Uma Cidade Chamada Bastardo
    Uma Cidade Chamada Bastardo1971
  • Intriga em Paris
    Intriga em Paris1952
  • Lucy Galante
    Lucy Galante1955
  • Duffy, O Máximo de Vigarice
    Duffy, O Máximo de Vigarice1968
  • A Bala Perdida
    A Bala Perdida1953
  • Paris, Cidade das Ilusões
    Paris, Cidade das Ilusões1963

Filmography

1990
Blue Bayou · as Tony
1938
Dramatic School · as Student
1938
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off · as 2nd Sophomore
1938
Having Wonderful Time · as Camp Guest
1937
Thrill of a Lifetime · as Chorus Boy
1937
Thin Ice · as Cast
1937
1937
1936
One in a Million · as Cast
1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island · as Undetermined Secondary RoleNo Plex
1935
Shipmates Forever · as Extra
1935
The Crusades · as Extra
1935
1935
The Informer · as Young Soldier
1935
The Whole Town's Talking · as Undetermined Secondary Role
1934
Judge Priest · as Taffy Puller At FestivalNo Plex
1933
Doctor Bull · as Teenager
1933
This Day and Age · as Student
1933
Cavalcade · as Boy Scout
1932
Scandal for Sale · as Copyboy
1932
1932
Forbidden · as Office Boy
1931
Sidewalks of New York · as Tenement Kid
1931
I Take This Woman · as Boy At Railroad Station
1931
City Lights · as Newsboy (uncredited)
1931
Scandal Sheet · as Copy Boy
1930
The Right to Love · as Willie
1930
The Big Trail · as Pioneer Boy
1930
Up the River · as Boy (uncredited)
1930
All Quiet on the Western Front · as Schoolboy (uncredited)
1930
Anna Christie · as Boy At Coney Island (uncredited)
1929
The Racketeer · as Street Urchin
1929
The Iron Mask · as Page
1928
The Divine Lady · as Powder Monkey
1928
Riley the Cop · as Boy
1928
Speedy · as Kid In Coney Island Sequence
1928
Four Sons · as Joseph's Son
1927
Mother Machree · as Boy
1927
Sunrise · as Boy (uncredited)No Plex