Barnett Parker

Barnett Parker

Acting 1886-09-10 Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK

Within the British colony of expatriate actors in Hollywood during the 1930's, Barnett Parker, born 11 September 1886, in Batley, Yorkshire, England, was among the most stereotypical. Harrowgate College-educated, straight-backed, balding and well-intoned, Parker caricatured a multitude of unctuous, stiff-upper-lip butlers, man-servants or waiters, though his performances could, at times, verge on the brink of being camp. When driven to frustration his characters commonly resorted to incoherent twitter or wild gesticulation. Parker was trained under Marie Tempest and George Alexander in England. He first acted on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre as Wilfred Tavish in Arthur Wing Pinero's "The "Mind the Paint" Girl" in 1912. He was well served with further roles in hit plays like "Hobson's Choice" (1915), "Artists and Models" (1924) and "The Red Robe" (1928). He was at first prone to reject film offers, professing to favor acting on stage. Nonetheless, the celluloid medium eventually beckoned, enticing him to sign with the East Coast-based studio Thanhouser in 1915. He worked in films during the daytime (while treading the boards at night) and quickly landed a plum role as a weak socialite, rescuing Gladys Hulette in Prudence, the Pirate (1916). He was seldom thereafter afforded the opportunity for heroic acts. During the 1930's, he was primarily in demand for small roles as dandified or 'silly ass' Britishers, giving value for money in films like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Personal Property (1937), Live, Love and Learn (1937) and Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937). Looking rather older than his years, Barnett Parker died at the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles after multiple heart attacks on August 5, 1941.

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2004 Dragon (voice) (archive sound) (uncredited)
1964 Arthur Trevelyan in 'Personal Property' (arch. foot.) (uncred.)
1941 Dragon (segment "The Reluctant Dragon") (voice)
1941 Quentin
1941 The Duke
1941 George
1941 Phillips
1940 Huggins
1940 Thompson, Steve's Butler (uncredited)
1940 Samuel Stephens
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1940 George - Fred's Chauffeur
1940 Hammond
1939 Whitcomb
1939 William
1939 Bekins, the Butler
1939 Photographer
1938 Abercrombie
1938 Hugo
1938 Hotchkiss, Carlotta's Butler
1938 Maurice
1938 Oscar
1938 Prince de Rohan
1937 Mr. Flint, Margit's Bookkeeper
1937 Jerry Jason
1937 Arthur Trevelyan
1937 Albert, Stephan's Butler
1937 Tweed
1937 Foster
1937 Alfredo
1937 John Barkley
1937 Waiter
1937 Graves
1937 Bill Cordell
1937 Minehardi
1937 Purser
1936 Floorwalker
1936 Roger
1936 Butler (uncredited)
1936 Butler (uncredited)
1936 Primrose
1936 Waters
1936 Dining Car Man (uncredited)
1920 Steve
1916 The Duke
1916 Book Agent
1916 John Astorbilt
1915 Bill - a Gentleman from the East