Emory Parnell
Born: 1892-12-28 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
Died: 1979-06-22
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
1990
- Myrna Loy: So Nice to Come Home To as (archive footage)
1972
- Hot Summer Week as Bartender
1971
- The Andromeda Strain as Pete 'Old Doughboy' Arnold (uncredited)
1969
- Medical Center as Mr. Oldham
1968
- Mayberry R.F.D. as Older Man
1965
- Green Acres as Sheriff Blake
- The Bounty Killer as Sam - Bartender
1963
- Petticoat Junction as Sheriff Blake
1961
- Mister Ed as Murphy
- The Two Little Bears as Grimshaw Wilkins
1960
- The Andy Griffith Show as Uncle Edward
- The Case of the Dangerous Robin as Arab # 1
1959
- Dennis the Menace as O'Reilly
- The Alaskans
- Alias Jesse James as Angel's Rest Sheriff (uncredited)
1958
- Lawman
- Bat Masterson as Ira Ponder
- 77 Sunset Strip
- The Texan
- Man of the West as Henry (uncredited)
- The Notorious Mr. Monks as Sheriff Cobus Anders
- The Hot Angel as Judd Pfeiffer
1957
- Perry Mason as Leo Mann
- Maverick as Cousin Lonnie
- Sugarfoot as Simpson
- The Real McCoys
1956
- Hey, Jeannie! as Plain-Clothes Man
- Conflict as Sheriff Bert Meadows
- Pardners as Col. Hart (uncredited)
- That Certain Feeling as Senator
- The Young Guns as Padgett
- So Your Wife Wants to Work as Mr. Batten (uncredited)
1955
- Cheyenne as Luther Gannon
- Gunsmoke as Prospector
- Navy Log as Capt. Jurgesson
- Artists and Models as Mr. Kelly (uncredited)
- Feathertop as Major Whitby
- How to Be Very, Very Popular as Chief of Police
- So You Want to Be a V.P. as (uncredited)
1954
- Public Defender as Gunderson
- Sabrina as Charles (uncredited)
- The Joe Palooka Story
- The Long, Long Trailer as Policeman (uncredited)
- Battle of Rogue River as Sgt. McClain
- Jungle Gents as Police Captain
- Ma and Pa Kettle at Home as Billy Reed
- So You Want to Know Your Relatives as Mr. Battan (uncredited)
- Pride of the Blue Grass as Mr. Casey
- The Two Gun Teacher as Prof. Kleinberg
- The Rocket Man as Big Bill Watkins
- Meet the O'Briens as Dad
1953
- The Life Of Riley as Foreman
- General Electric Theater as Nagel, Defense Counsel
- The Band Wagon as Man on Train (uncredited)
- Revlon Mirror Theatre
- Call Me Madam as Senator Gallagher
- Confidentially Connie as Mr. Daveney (uncredited)
- Fort Vengeance as Patrick Fitzgibbon
- Safari Drums as Larry Conrad
- Lost in a Turkish Bath as A.J. Corbett
- Sweethearts on Parade as Mayor
- So You Want to Learn to Dance as George Blivens - Joe's Boss
- Shadows of Tombstone as Sheriff Webb
1952
- Four Star Playhouse as Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Abbott and Costello Show as Sheriff
- Rancho Notorious as Sheriff (uncredited)
- Lost in Alaska as Sherman
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? as Policeman (uncredited)
- Macao as Ship's Captain (uncredited)
- Oklahoma Annie as Judge Byrnes
- Dreamboat as Crazy Sam (uncredited)
- Gobs and Gals as Senator Prentice
- The Fabulous Senorita as Dean Bradshaw
- So You Never Tell a Lie as Mr. Batten (uncredited)
- Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair as Billy Reed
- When in Rome as Ship's Captain
- So You Want to Wear the Pants as Mr. Batten (uncredited)
- The McGurk Way as Dan McGurk Sr.
- So You Want to Enjoy Life as Joe's Boss (uncredited)
1951
- I Love Lucy as Policeman
- The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
- Boston Blackie
- Show Boat as Jake Green (uncredited)
- Two of a Kind as First Deputy (uncredited)
- Let's Go Navy! as Police Sgt. Mulloy
- Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm as Billy Reed
- My True Story as Ed Praskins
- Footlight Varieties as Older Cop
- All That I Have as Juror Barstow
1950
- The Colgate Comedy Hour as Self
- Key to the City as Council Chairman
- Rock Island Trail as Sen. Wells
- To Please a Lady as Mr. Wendall
- Unmasked as 'Pop' Swenson
- Chain Gang as Capt. Duncan
- Trail of Robin Hood as J. Corwin Aldridge
1949
- The Life of Riley as Clay J. Stevenson
- A Woman's Secret as Police Lieutenant at Desk
- Hellfire as Sheriff Duffy
- Ma and Pa Kettle as Bill Reed
- Massacre River as Sgt. Johanssen
- The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend as Mr. Hingleman
- Hideout as Arnie Anderson
- Alaska Patrol as Capt. Jan Roburt
- Rose of the Yukon as Tim MacNab
1948
- Words and Music as Mr. Feiner
- Blonde Ice as Police Capt. Bill Murdock
- Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Mr. PeDelford
- Summer Holiday as Dannville Beach Club Bartender (uncredited)
- Disaster as Father Mulvaney (uncredited)
- You Gotta Stay Happy as Bank Watchman
- Here Comes Trouble as Winfield 'Windy' Blake
- Assigned to Danger as Sheriff (uncredited)
- Strike It Rich as Carlton
1947
- The Guilt of Janet Ames as (uncredited)
- Violence as True Dawson
- Gas House Kids Go West as Police Sergeat Casey
- The Crime Doctor's Gamble as O'Reilly
- Stork Bites Man as Alan Kimberly
- Calendar Girl as The Mayor
1946
- Deadline at Dawn as Police Captain Bender (uncredited)
- Gallant Journey as Car Driver (uncredited)
- Riverboat Rhythm as Sheriff Martin
- Badman's Territory as Bitter Creek (uncredited)
- Deadline for Murder as Masseur
- The Show-Off as Mr. Appelton
- Colonel Effingham's Raid as Joe Alsobrook
- Little Iodine as Mr. Bigdome
- Abie's Irish Rose as Father John Whalen
- Strange Triangle as Barney Shaefer
- The Falcon's Alibi as Metcalf
- Queen of Burlesque as Inspector Crowley
1945
- Two O'Clock Courage as Insp. Bill Brenner
- Sing Your Way Home as Ship's captain
- The Crime Doctor's Courage as Police Captain Birch
- The Big Beef as Mr. Bib
- Mama Loves Papa as O'Leary
- You Drive Me Crazy as Mr. Hinkledorfer
- It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog
- What, No Cigarettes as Man in Line at Drugstore
1944
- Wilson as Chairman of Democratic Committee (uncredited)
- Tall in the Saddle as Sheriff Jackson
- Casanova Brown as Frank, the Bell Captain
- The Miracle of Morgan's Creek as Mr. Tuerck
- Once Upon a Time as Policeman (uncredited)
- Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- The Falcon in Hollywood as Inspector McBride
- The Falcon in Mexico as James 'Lucky Diamond' Hughes [Script name: Winthrop Hughes]
- Address Unknown as Postman
- Gildersleeve's Ghost as Haley
- A Night of Adventure as Judge
- Feather Your Nest as Farmer
- Triple Trouble
- The Case of the Tremendous Trifle as Wilson
1943
- The Outlaw as Dolan (uncredited)
- Mr. Lucky as Dock Watchman (uncredited)
- Government Girl as The Chief (uncredited)
- The Hard Way as Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
- Du Barry Was a Lady as Gatekeeper (uncredited)
- Nazty Nuisance as Capt. Spense
- Mission to Moscow as Uncaring Businessman (uncredited)
- Dangerous Blondes as Officer McGuire (uncredited)
- Young Ideas as Judge Canute J. Kelly
- Slightly Dangerous as Policeman at newspaper office (uncredited)
- The Unknown Guest as Sheriff Dave Larsen
- Two Señoritas from Chicago as Rupert Shannon
- London Blackout Murders as Henryk Peterson (uncredited)
1942
- Saboteur as Henry - Husband in Movie (uncredited)
- I Married a Witch as Allen - Hotel Owner (uncredited)
- Gentleman Jim as Dennis Simmons (uncredited)
- The Pride of the Yankees as Chicago Policeman O'Doul (uncredited)
- Arabian Nights as Harem Sentry
- All Through the Night as Cop Outside Warehouse (uncredited)
- The Major and the Minor as Conductor #2 (uncredited)
- Once Upon a Honeymoon as Quisling (uncredited)
- Obliging Young Lady as Motorcycle Policeman Behind Billboard (uncredited)
- Apache Trail as Mr. Walters (uncredited)
- Larceny, Inc. as O'Casey
- They All Kissed the Bride as Mahoney
- Night in New Orleans as Jensen (uncredited)
- Highways by Night as Police Sergeant Ransome
- The Remarkable Andrew as Policeman
- Syncopation
- Two Yanks in Trinidad as Police Chief (uncredited)
- Over My Dead Body as Police Capt. Grady
- Cadets on Parade as Inspector Kennedy
1941
- The Maltese Falcon as Ship's Mate (uncredited)
- Blossoms in the Dust as Senator
- Johnny Eager as Policeman Telling Eager to Move His Taxicab (uncredited)
- The Monster and the Girl as Policeman in Alley
- The Blonde from Singapore as Capt. Nelson
- The Lady from Cheyenne as Crowley
- The Case of the Black Parrot as Simmonds
- Louisiana Purchase as Sam Horowitz, Lawyer
- Unholy Partners as Colonel Mason
- All the World's a Stooge as Ajax Bullion
- So Ends Our Night as Weiss
- Three Sons o' Guns as Man Delivering Radio
- A Shot in the Dark as Marsotti
1940
- Foreign Correspondent as 'Mohican' Captain
- Stranger on the Third Floor as Grilling Detective in Dream Sequence (uncredited)
- Young Tom Edison as Bob
- Abe Lincoln in Illinois as Minor Role (uncredited)
- The Great McGinty as Policeman at Soup Kitchen (uncredited)
- North West Mounted Police as George Higgins
- Blondie on a Budget as Policeman Dempsey (uncredited)
- Out West with the Peppers as Ole
- The Golden Fleecing as Featherway (uncredited)
- The Devil's Pipeline as R.J. Adams
1939
- The Roaring Twenties as Gangster (uncredited)
- Union Pacific as Foreman (uncredited)
- Invisible Stripes as Policeman Outside Bank (uncredited)
- At the Circus as Ringmaster (uncredited)
- They Shall Have Music as Policeman in Rain (uncredited)
- Idiot's Delight as Fifth Avenue Mounted Cop
- I Stole a Million as Cop at Flower Shop (uncredited)
- Sudden Money as Cop
- You Can't Get Away with Murder as Second Detective (uncredited)
- One Hour to Live as Fats Monoham
- On Dress Parade as Paddy - Policeman (uncredited)
- The Secret of Dr. Kildare as Policeman on Gaylor Ave. (uncredited)
- East Side of Heaven as Doorman (uncredited)
- Winter Carnival as Williams - Editor
- Tiny Troubles as Officer Clancy
- Let Freedom Ring as Axel (uncredited)
- The House of Fear as Policeman
- The Lady and the Mob as Policeman Riley
- Off the Record as Policeman (uncredited)
- Pacific Liner as Olaf
- The Spellbinder as Club 88 Doorman (uncredited)
- The Day the Bookies Wept as Motor Cop (uncredited)
- Sued for Libel as Jerome Walsh
- Twelve Crowded Hours as Doorkeeper (uncredited)
1938
- Angels with Dirty Faces
- Blondie as Police Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
- The Mad Miss Manton as Doorman (uncredited)
- I Am the Law as Detective Brophy (uncredited)
- King of Alcatraz as Olaf
- Illegal Traffic
- Call of The Yukon as Swenson
- Girls on Probation as Officer Craig
- Doctor Rhythm as Sgt. Olson (uncredited)
- Arson Racket Squad as Chief J.P. Riley