Robert Parrish

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Robert R. Parrish (born Columbus, Georgia, 4 January 1916 - died Southampton, New York, 4 December 1995) 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. Robert Parrish made his film debut in a 1927 Our Gang short. (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 three years later. Parrish worked as an assistant editor and sound editor on such Ford classics as Drums Along the Mohawk (1939) and The Grapes of Wrath (1940).

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, and was nominated again two years later for another Rossen film – the political drama All the King’s Men.

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, one of the most notorious being the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale, 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 1983's Mississippi Blues.

[edit] Autobiographies

• Growing Up in Hollywood. New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1976. ISBN 0586048596
• Hollywood Doesn't Live Here Anymore. Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. ISBN 0316692557

[edit] External links

• Robert Parrish at the Internet Movie Database