Robert Parrish Actor -

Born January 4, 1916 in Columbus, Georgia, USA

Died December 4, 1995 in Southampton, Long Island, New York, USA (undisclosed)

Nickname Bobby

Mini Bio (2) 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

Charlie Chaplin sent an assistant to a Hollywood school to find a boy with a mischievous look. Robert was picked out and taken to see Chaplin and a few days later Robert was firing peas at him on the set of 'City Lights' He also had a schoolboy role in 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. His first ambition was to be a cameraman but union laws barred him so he went after any job and eventually got on a labor gang at Warners and eventually moved into the cutting rooms then graduated to directing.in 1942 with 'Battle of Midway' winning an 'Oscar'. His 2nd came 5 years later for the editing of 'Body and Soul', next was a nomination for the editing of 'All the King's Men'. He became a director in 1951 when Dick Powell signed him for the film 'Cry Danger'

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tonyman 5

Spouse (1) Kathleen Thompson (18 September 1942 - ?)

Son of actress Laura R. Parrish.

Brother of actresses Beverly Parrish, Helen Parrish, and actor Gordon Parrish.

A couple of years after directing his last feature film, The Destructors (1974) Parrish published his autobiography, "Growing Up In Hollywood", which largely avoids mention of his directing career. The book was a big best-seller and was critically acclaimed, one British critic going so far as to say that it was so well-written, "one wonders if he hasn't been in the wrong business all along.".

He was the first director attached to Days of Wine and Roses (1962), but Blake Edwards replaced him.

[on visiting John Ford on his deathbed] We talked about zoom lenses (he didn't approve), John Wayne (he approved), [Henry Fonda] (he approved), Patrick Kelley (he approved, but wished Kelley hadn't turned executive--"Terrible thing for a good sound-effects cutter to allow himself to become the president of a successful film-producing company") . . . . He then said, "Have you won any more Oscars?" I told him I hadn't, and he said, "It turns out they're not as unimportant as I thought, so you should go ahead and win as many as you can".

[on Nicholas Ray]: He worked at the top of his physical capacities at all times; every time I've seen him, in my whole life, I always wondered if he wasn't just about ready to crack up.

The Big Trail (1930) $45 /week

History Is Made at Night (1937) $10 /day