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