Emory Parnell

Actor

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Emory Parnel

Birth Place

St Paul, Minnesota, USA

Born

December 29, 1892

Died

June 22, 1979

Biography

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Emory Parnell was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Parnell started his acting career landing roles in such films as "Arson Gang Busters" (1938), "King of Alcatraz" (1938) and "Call of the Yukon" (1939). He also appeared in the musical "The Star Maker" (1939) with Bing Crosby, "Pacific Liner" (1939) and "If I Had My Way" (1940). He continued to work steadily in film t...

Filmography

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The Andromeda Strain (1971)

The Bounty Killer (1965)

The Two Little Bears (1961)

School board head

Alias Jesse James (1959)

This Earth Is Mine (1959)

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Woman's Secret, A (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Genius, Would You Say?

Johnny Eager (1942) -- (Movie Clip) High And Handsome

Biography

Emory Parnell was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Parnell started his acting career landing roles in such films as "Arson Gang Busters" (1938), "King of Alcatraz" (1938) and "Call of the Yukon" (1939). He also appeared in the musical "The Star Maker" (1939) with Bing Crosby, "Pacific Liner" (1939) and "If I Had My Way" (1940). He continued to work steadily in film throughout the forties, appearing in "The Falcon in Hollywood" (1944), the mystery "Tall in the Saddle" (1944) with John Wayne and the comedy "The Miracle of Morgan's Creek" (1944) with Eddie Bracken. He also appeared in the Tom Conway mystery "The Falcon in Mexico" (1944). Film continued to be his passion as he played roles in the action flick "To Please a Lady" (1950) with Clark Gable, the historical film "Golden Girl" (1951) with Mitzi Gaynor and "When in Rome" (1952) with Van Johnson. He also appeared in the Bud Abbott comedy "Lost in Alaska" (1952) and the western "The Lawless Breed" (1953) with Rock Hudson. Parnell more recently acted in "The Bounty Killer" (1965). Parnell passed away in June 1979 at the age of 87.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

The Andromeda Strain (1971)

The Bounty Killer (1965)

The Two Little Bears (1961)

School board head

Alias Jesse James (1959)

This Earth Is Mine (1959)

The Notorious Mr. Monks (1958)

The Hot Angel (1958)

Man of the West (1958)

The Delicate Delinquent (1957)

That Certain Feeling (1956)

Artists and Models (1956)

Pardners (1956)

The Young Guns (1956)

Hot Shots (1956)

The Road to Denver (1955)

Murdock, the rancher

How To Be Very, Very Popular (1955)

Chief of police

You're Never Too Young (1955)

The Long, Long Trailer (1954)

Pride of the Blue Grass (1954)

Charles, butler

The Rocket Man (1954)

Big Bill Watkins

Jungle Gents (1954)

Battle of Rogue River (1954)

Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)

The Girl Who Had Everything (1953)

Shadows of Tombstone (1953)

Confidentially Connie (1953)

The Lawless Breed (1953)

The Band Wagon (1953)

Easy to Love (1953)

Here Come the Girls (1953)

Mr. Garrity, police captain

Safari Drums (1953)

Fort Vengeance (1953)

Patrick Fitzgibbon

Sweethearts on Parade (1953)

Call Me Madam (1953)

Senator Gallagher

Gobs and Gals (1952)

Senator Prentice

Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (1952)

Lost in Alaska (1952)

Boots Malone (1952)

Rancho Notorious (1952)

Sheriff who arrests Vern

Has Anybody Seen My Gal (1952)

The Girl in White (1952)

The Fabulous Senorita (1952)

And Now Tomorrow (1952)

Washington Story (1952)

Howard, immigration official

Oklahoma Annie (1952)

Dreamboat (1952)

Crazy Sam, the used car salesman

When in Rome (1952)

Golden Girl (1951)

Two of a Kind (1951)

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951)

Honeychile (1951)

Show Boat (1951)

The Redhead and the Cowboy (1951)

Grounds for Marriage (1951)

Belle Le Grand (1951)

Let's Go Navy (1951)

All That I Have (1951)

My True Story (1951)

Editor Praskins

Footlight Varieties (1951)

Kill the Umpire (1950)

Rock Island Trail (1950)

Chain Gang (1950)

Key to the City (1950)

Council chairman

Trail of Robin Hood (1950)

J. Corwin Aldridge

County Fair (1950)

To Please a Lady (1950)

Unmasked (1950)

Beware of Blondie (1950)

You Gotta Stay Happy (1949)

Rose of the Yukon (1949)

Alaska Patrol (1949)

Hellfire (1949)

Massacre River (1949)

Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)

Mr. [Julius] Hingleman

A Woman's Secret (1949)

The Babe Ruth Story (1948)

Summer Holiday (1948)

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Here Comes Trouble (1948)

Assigned to Danger (1948)

Song of Idaho (1948)

J. Chester Nottingham

Blonde Ice (1948)

Captain Bill Murdock

Strike It Rich (1948)

Words and Music (1948)

The Guilt of Janet Ames (1947)

Gas House Kids Go West (1947)

Sgt. Timothy Casey

Violence (1947)

Stork Bites Man (1947)

The Crime Doctor's Gamble (1947)

Calendar Girl (1947)

Suddenly, It's Spring (1947)

Man in elevator

Riverboat Rhythm (1946)

Deadline at Dawn (1946)

Abie's Irish Rose (1946)

Father [John] Whelan

The Falcon's Alibi (1946)

Queen of Burlesque (1946)

Inspector Crowley

Strange Triangle (1946)

Little Iodine (1946)

Jonathan Bigdome

Colonel Effingham's Raid (1946)

The Show-Off (1946)

Deadline for Murder (1946)

Gallant Journey (1946)

Badman's Territory (1946)

It's in the Bag! (1945)

Radio Stars on Parade (1945)

State Fair (1945)

Senator James A. Goodhart

Mama Loves Papa (1945)

Zombies on Broadway (1945)

Two O'Clock Courage (1945)

Inspector Bill Brenner

The Crime Doctor's Courage (1945)

Sing Your Way Home (1945)

What a Blonde (1945)

Chairman Democratic committee

Having Wonderful Crime (1945)

Once Upon a Time (1944)

Radio police officer

Seven Days Ashore (1944)

Government Girl (1944)

Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)

The Falcon in Mexico (1944)

Winthrop "Lucky Diamond" Hughes

The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)

Inspector McBride

Address Unknown (1944)

Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944)

Casanova Brown (1944)

Tall in the Saddle (1944)

Sheriff Jackson

A Night of Adventure (1944)

Heavenly Days (1944)

The Great Moment (1944)

Let's Face It (1943)

The Dancing Masters (1943)

It's a Great Life (1943)

The Hard Way (1943)

Dangerous Blondes (1943)

Policeman McGuire

Over My Dead Body (1943)

London Blackout Murders (1943)

Hendrick Peterson

Unknown Guest (1943)

Sheriff Dave Larsen

Two Senoritas from Chicago (1943)

The Outlaw (1943)

Young Ideas (1943)

You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith (1943)

Slightly Dangerous (1943)

Mission to Moscow (1943)

Speaker of the House

Mr. Lucky (1943)

Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

The Human Comedy (1943)

The Pride of the Yankees (1943)

Nazty Nuisance (1943)

Highways by Night (1942)

Sergeant Ransome

Johnny Eager (1942)

Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942)

Larceny, Inc. (1942)

Officer O'Casey

Two Yanks in Trinidad (1942)

Apache Trail (1942)

Night in New Orleans (1942)

Arabian Nights (1942)

They All Kissed the Bride (1942)

Cadets on Parade (1942)

Inspector Kennedy

I Married a Witch (1942)

Wings for the Eagle (1942)

All Through the Night (1942)

Saboteur (1942)

The Major and the Minor (1942)

Gentleman Jim (1942)

Sullivan's Travels (1942)

Man at R. R. shack

Kings Row (1942)

Syncopation (1942)

Obliging Young Lady (1942)

Motorcycle policeman

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Three Sons O'Guns (1941)

Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)

So Ends Our Night (1941)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Mate of the La Paloma

Louisiana Purchase (1941)

A Shot in the Dark (1941)

The Blonde from Singapore (1941)

The Case of the Black Parrot (1941)

Unholy Partners (1941)

Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)

The Monster and the Girl (1941)

The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)

Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

The Great McGinty (1940)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

"Mohican" captain

Young Tom Edison (1940)

The Golden Fleecing (1940)

Blondie on a Budget (1940)

Out West with the Peppers (1940)

The Devil's Pipeline (1940)

If I Had My Way (1940)

Gustav [Erickson]

A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)

Those Were the Days! (1940)

Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)

I Stole a Million (1939)

You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)

Let Freedom Ring (1939)

Saint Louis Blues (1939)

Police officer White

At the Circus (1939)

Unmarried (1939)

East Side of Heaven (1939)

Twelve Crowded Hours (1939)

Little Accident (1939)

The Star Maker (1939)

Sued for Libel (1939)

One Hour to Live (1939)

The Day the Bookies Wept (1939)

Pacific Liner (1939)

Union Pacific (1939)

Off the Record (1939)

Invisible Stripes (1939)

Sudden Money (1939)

Illegal Traffic (1938)

Sweethearts (1938)

Girls on Probation (1938)

Call of the Yukon (1938)

I Am the Law (1938)

Arson Gang Busters (1938)

King of Alcatraz (1938)

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)

Cast (Special)

Rashford'S Father

Cast (Short)

So Your Wife Wants to Work (1956)

Tiny Troubles (1939)

Life Events

Videos

Woman's Secret, A (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Genius, Would You Say? Having confessed to a shooting, Marian (Maureen O'Hara) tells cop Fowler (Jay. C Flippen) she only wants to call her friend Luke (Melvyn Douglas), introduced appearing on a radio quiz show, in Nicholas Ray's A Woman's Secret, 1949.

Johnny Eager (1942) -- (Movie Clip) High And Handsome Opening scene, Robert Taylor (title character), evidently a cabbie, drops in on his parole officer Verne (Henry O'Neill), his aide Miss Mines (Leona Maricle) not interested, but visiting students (Diana Lewis, Lana Turner) are, in Mervyn LeRoy's Johny Eager, 1943.

Having Wonderful Crime (1945) -- (Movie Clip) The Bastille Is No Fun Tight opening introduces headliners, Carole Landis as affluent amateur detective Helene, Pat O’Brien as bothered lawyer Malone, and George Murphy as her new husband Jake, Emory Parnell the cop, in RKO’s Having Wonderful Crime, 1945, based on a novel by the pseudonymous “Craig Rice.”

Hard Way, The (1943) -- (Movie Clip) They Asked Me Why Director Vincent Sherman's opening, Ida Lupino eventually introduced as "Helen," Emory Parnell the cop, into a flashback featuring little sister Katherine (Joan Leslie), in The Hard Way, 1943.

Tall In The Saddle (1944) -- (Movie Clip) Had No Hide Hidden Out Boozy stage driver Dave (Gabby Hayes) brings the eastern ladies (Elisabeth Risdon, Audrey Long) and mysterious Rocklin (John Wayne) the the station where Stan (Walter Baldwin) is host and Bob and the Sheriff (Paul Fix, Emory Parnell) bring trouble, early in Tall In The Saddle, 1944.

Sabrina (1954) -- (Movie Clip) I Almost Flunked My Hollandaise Chauffeur Fairchild (John Williams) reads a letter from his daughter (Audrey Hepburn, title character), sent to cooking school in France to separate her from carefree heir David (William Holden), then drives the responsible brother Linus (Humphrey Bogart), in Sabrina, 1954.

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm -- (Movie Clip) Nothing But Dirt Pa (Percy Kilbride) is electrified (it turns out his pockets are full of uranium) and Billy (Emory Parnell) is duly alarmed, in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm, 1951.

Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm -- (Movie Clip) Pa Kettle's What? Shopkeeper Billy (Emory Parnell) regretts letting Pa (Percy Kilbride) and cronies Geoduck (Oliver Blake) and silent Crowbar (Teddy Hart) sample his tobacco, in Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm, 1951.

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