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Birthday
September 10, 1886
Day of Death
1941-08-05
(54 years old)
Place of Birth
Batley, Yorkshire, England, UK
Also Known As
William Barnett Parker
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.
2004
1964
1941
1940
1939
1938
1937
Navy Blue and Gold
as Graves
Live, Love and Learn
as Alfredo
Double Wedding
as Mr. Flint, Margit's Bookkeeper
Wake Up and Live
as Foster
Broadway Melody of 1938
as Jerry Jason
The Emperor's Candlesticks
as Albert, Stephan's Butler
Married Before Breakfast
as Tweed
Personal Property
as Arthur Trevelyan
Ready, Willing and Able
as Waiter
Espionage
as Bill Cordell
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
as Purser
Dangerous Number
as Minehardi
We Who Are About to Die
as John Barkley
1936
1920
1916
1915
