Emory Parnell
Biography
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Emory Parnell (December 29, 1892 – June 22, 1979) was an American vaudeville performer and actor who appeared in over 250 films in his 36-year career. He was nicknamed "The Big Swede" and was sometimes credited as "Emery" or "Parnel".
Seeking better opportunities in Hollywood, Parnell and his wife moved to Los Angeles, California, where, helped by his red-faced Irish look of frustration, he immediately began to appear in films in a variety of role, such as policemen, doormen, landlords, and small town businessmen. One of his first films was Doctor Rhythm (1938).
Although his appearances were often in "B" films, such as the Ma and Pa Kettle series, he also made credible showings in "A" films as well. One notable part was as a Paramount studio executive who sang about avoiding libel suits to open 1941's Louisiana Purchase. Parnell was also part of writer-director Preston Sturges' unofficial "stock company" of character actors in the 1940s, appearing in five of Sturges' films, including The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, where he played the crooked banker, "Mr. Tuerck", the chief antagonist of William Demarest's "Constable Kockenlocker". He also made a memorable appearance as grumpy socialite Ajax Bullion in the Three Stooges short subject All the World's a Stooge.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1892-12-28
Place of birth
Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
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Cast
Confidentially Connie
1953
5.30
Disaster
1948
5.00
The Band Wagon
1953
7.10
Hot Summer Week
1972
2.00
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
0.00
Strange Triangle
1946
3.60
Once Upon a Honeymoon
1942
6.17
Triple Trouble
1944
0.00
Blonde Ice
1948
5.70
The Great McGinty
1940
6.90
Mama Loves Papa
1945
0.00
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
1944
6.82
Unmasked
1950
5.20
Violence
1947
5.20
Two O'Clock Courage
1945
6.10
The Falcon in Hollywood
1944
6.00
Call Me Madam
1953
6.30
The Falcon in Mexico
1944
5.30
The Falcon's Alibi
1946
5.20
Casanova Brown
1944
6.30
Hideout
1949
5.40
Wilson
1944
5.50
A Woman's Secret
1949
5.60
The Crime Doctor's Courage
1945
5.40
Footlight Varieties
1951
1.00
Unholy Partners
1941
7.00
Pardners
1956
6.70
I Am the Law
1938
6.60
The Notorious Mr. Monks
1958
0.00
Let's Go Navy!
1951
7.00
Address Unknown
1944
6.40
Deadline for Murder
1946
0.00
The Case of the Black Parrot
1941
5.40
All the World's a Stooge
1941
6.50
The Rocket Man
1954
6.30
Chain Gang
1950
6.70
Calendar Girl
1947
5.40
Safari Drums
1953
5.20
Johnny Eager
1941
6.10
That Certain Feeling
1956
5.30
The Hot Angel
1958
5.00
Here Comes Trouble
1948
4.60
Young Ideas
1943
4.60
To Please a Lady
1950
6.30
Trail of Robin Hood
1950
5.20
The Pride of the Yankees
1942
7.36
Sued for Libel
1939
5.40
Gildersleeve's Ghost
1944
5.00
Queen of Burlesque
1946
0.00
Sing Your Way Home
1945
5.20
The Young Guns
1956
6.80
A Night of Adventure
1944
4.90
Out West with the Peppers
1940
5.70
The Two Little Bears
1961
6.00
Oklahoma Annie
1952
8.00
Doctor Rhythm
1938
6.00
The Maltese Falcon
1941
7.71
Key to the City
1950
6.20
Sabrina
1954
7.50
The Unknown Guest
1943
0.00
Call of The Yukon
1938
4.70
The Mad Miss Manton
1938
6.40
Riverboat Rhythm
1946
5.00
Alaska Patrol
1949
0.00
Rose of the Yukon
1949
0.00
Illegal Traffic
1938
6.50
Tiny Troubles
1939
6.00
Dreamboat
1952
6.00
All Through the Night
1942
7.00
Show Boat
1951
6.10
Blondie
1938
7.10
The Long, Long Trailer
1954
6.80
The McGurk Way
1952
0.00
Abie's Irish Rose
1946
0.00
Abie's Irish Rose
1946
0.00
The Lady and the Mob
1939
6.30
The Blonde from Singapore
1941
5.00
The Outlaw
1943
5.40
Words and Music
1948
5.70
Girls on Probation
1938
5.90
Pacific Liner
1939
5.25
Fort Vengeance
1953
6.20
Idiot's Delight
1939
6.10
Let Freedom Ring
1939
6.00
East Side of Heaven
1939
7.10
Three Sons o' Guns
1941
5.00
Union Pacific
1939
6.50
At the Circus
1939
6.30
They Shall Have Music
1939
6.11
The House of Fear
1939
6.50
The Spellbinder
1939
6.00
The Secret of Dr. Kildare
1939
5.60
The Roaring Twenties
1939
7.49
Battle of Rogue River
1954
5.70
The Day the Bookies Wept
1939
5.00
So You Want to Be a V.P.
1955
8.50
Tall in the Saddle
1944
6.50
Artists and Models
1955
6.65
Gobs and Gals
1952
0.00
Deadline at Dawn
1946
6.30
London Blackout Murders
1943
5.00
Young Tom Edison
1940
5.60
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
1940
7.00
Blondie on a Budget
1940
6.00
Foreign Correspondent
1940
6.98
The Show-Off
1946
7.00
Arson Racket Squad
1938
0.00
Macao
1952
6.21
Highways by Night
1942
6.00
Saboteur
1942
6.89
Jungle Gents
1954
4.00
Syncopation
1942
6.80
The Lady from Cheyenne
1941
5.20
A Shot in the Dark
1941
5.00
Hellfire
1949
5.80
Gas House Kids Go West
1947
6.00
So Your Wife Wants to Work
1956
7.00
Strike It Rich
1948
0.00
Massacre River
1949
6.20
Summer Holiday
1948
4.90
Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble
1944
5.83
North West Mounted Police
1940
6.30
Government Girl
1943
5.20
Gentleman Jim
1942
7.20
The Golden Fleecing
1940
5.30
Stranger on the Third Floor
1940
6.49
Shadows of Tombstone
1953
6.00
Rock Island Trail
1950
6.00
I Married a Witch
1942
6.80
The Two Gun Teacher
1954
0.00
My True Story
1951
6.00
Apache Trail
1942
6.40
Lost in Alaska
1952
6.00
So Ends Our Night
1941
6.20
Arabian Nights
1942
5.97
Blossoms in the Dust
1941
6.56
Two Señoritas from Chicago
1943
6.00
The Bounty Killer
1965
5.80
Winter Carnival
1939
6.00
Larceny, Inc.
1942
6.90
I Stole a Million
1939
6.00
The Remarkable Andrew
1942
8.20
Little Iodine
1946
3.00
Sudden Money
1939
5.00
Over My Dead Body
1942
0.00
Obliging Young Lady
1942
5.00
Off the Record
1939
6.00
Dangerous Blondes
1943
6.00
Slightly Dangerous
1943
6.00
All That I Have
1951
5.00
Two of a Kind
1951
6.70
King of Alcatraz
1938
5.70
Once Upon a Time
1944
5.80
Ma and Pa Kettle
1949
7.29
Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair
1952
5.90
The Monster and the Girl
1941
5.80
Rancho Notorious
1952
6.50
On Dress Parade
1939
6.50
Du Barry Was a Lady
1943
6.10
Mission to Moscow
1943
5.31
Mr. Lucky
1943
6.90
Cadets on Parade
1942
6.00
Nazty Nuisance
1943
3.71
Feather Your Nest
1944
0.00
They All Kissed the Bride
1942
5.80
Assigned to Danger
1948
5.00
Alias Jesse James
1959
5.90
Badman's Territory
1946
5.70
The Major and the Minor
1942
7.03
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
1945
0.00
You Drive Me Crazy
1945
0.00
The Big Beef
1945
0.00
Twelve Crowded Hours
1939
5.20
Night in New Orleans
1942
4.00
Stork Bites Man
1947
0.00
One Hour To Live
1939
0.00
You Gotta Stay Happy
1948
6.50
The Andromeda Strain
1971
7.05
The Hard Way
1943
6.60
When in Rome
1952
0.00
Invisible Stripes
1939
6.30
Louisiana Purchase
1941
6.63
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
1952
6.90
So You Want to Enjoy Life
1952
2.00
So You Want to Wear the Pants
1952
5.00
So You Never Tell a Lie
1952
6.00
Colonel Effingham's Raid
1946
5.70
How To Be Very, Very Popular
1955
4.70
The Fabulous Senorita
1952
6.00
Sweethearts on Parade
1953
0.00
Man of the West
1958
6.57
The Guilt of Janet Ames
1947
5.68
The Devil's Pipeline
1940
6.00
Feathertop
1955
0.00
Lost in a Turkish Bath
1953
0.00
So You Want to Learn to Dance
1953
0.00
Two Yanks in Trinidad
1942
2.00
Gallant Journey
1946
6.10
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938
7.53
You Can't Get Away with Murder
1939
5.60