Cast: Cecil Parker
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Cecil Parker. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Lady Vanishes
1938 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Margaret Lockwood · Michael Redgrave · Dame May Whitty · Paul Lukas
Plot While traveling in continental Europe, a rich young playgirl realizes that an elderly lady seems to have disappeared from the train.
7.4
6K votes
7.4
6K votes
The Citadel
1938 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction King Vidor
Cast Robert Donat · Rosalind Russell · Ralph Richardson · Rex Harrison
Plot Andrew Manson, a young, enthusiastic doctor takes his first job in a Welsh mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his...
7.1
464 votes
7.1
464 votes
The Man in the White Suit
1951 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alexander Mackendrick
Cast Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Cecil Parker · Patric Doonan
Plot The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material,...
7.0
2K votes
7.0
2K votes
23 Paces to Baker Street
1956 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Henry Hathaway
Cast Van Johnson · Vera Miles · Cecil Parker · Patricia Laffan
Plot Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a suspicious conversation, that leads him into a desperate race, to find the accomplices. When he gets no help...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Indiscreet
1958 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Stanley Donen
Cast Cary Grant · Ingrid Bergman · Cecil Parker · Phyllis Calvert
Plot Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while...
6.7
2K votes
6.7
2K votes
It's Great to Be Young!
1956 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Cyril Frankel
Cast John Mills · Cecil Parker · John Salew · Elizabeth Kentish
Plot Mr. Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school, but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band (partly because of Dingle's fondness of more modern...
6.6
60 votes
6.6
60 votes
Under Capricorn
1949 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Alfred Hitchcock
Cast Ingrid Bergman · Joseph Cotten · Michael Wilding · Margaret Leighton
Plot In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets...
6.5
3K votes
6.5
3K votes
The Court Jester
1955 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Melvin Frank · Norman Panama
Cast Danny Kaye · Glynis Johns · Angela Lansbury · Basil Rathbone
6.5
501 votes
6.5
501 votes
The Admirable Crichton
1957 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Lewis Gilbert
Cast Kenneth More · Sally Ann Howes · Martita Hunt · Cecil Parker
Plot Comedy based on James Barrie's classic play in which Kenneth More's English butler, shipwrecked with his employers, resourcefully leads them in their attempts to survive. Social satire about an aristocratic...
6.4
50 votes
6.4
50 votes
Under Ten Flags
1960 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy
Direction Duilio Coletti
Cast Van Heflin · Charles Laughton · Mylène Demongeot · John Ericson
Plot In London in 1941, Adm. Russell struggles to locate and destroy the German raider Atlantis , which has been blowing up Allied warships in the Pacific Ocean. At sea, the...
6.4
310 votes
6.4
310 votes
The Stars Look Down
1940 · Movie · 110 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Carol Reed
Cast Michael Redgrave · Margaret Lockwood · Emlyn Williams · Nancy Price
Plot Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets...
6.4
56 votes
6.4
56 votes
A Tale of Two Cities
1958 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ralph Thomas
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Dorothy Tutin · Paul Guers · Marie Versini
Plot British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue...
6.3
116 votes
6.3
116 votes
Swiss Family Robinson
1960 · Movie · 126 min. · United States
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast John Mills · Dorothy McGuire · James MacArthur · Janet Munro
Plot The Disney touch is all over this grand, colorful version of the Johann Wyss adventure of a European family set off for the new world of New Guinea. The film...
6.2
2K votes
6.2
2K votes
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Michael Anderson
Cast Gary Cooper · Charlton Heston · Michael Redgrave · Emlyn Williams
Plot Two sailors, one the captain of a beached cargo ship called the "Mary Deare", form an alliance to stop the ship's owner from collecting on an insurance scam which involved...
6.2
669 votes
6.2
669 votes
I Was Monty's Double
1958 · Movie · 101 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Guillermin
Cast M.E. Clifton-James · John Mills · Cecil Parker · Patrick Allen
Plot The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
6.2
88 votes
6.2
88 votes
Father Brown
1954 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Hamer
Cast Alec Guinness · Joan Greenwood · Peter Finch · Cecil Parker
Plot Father Brown is an eccentric priest who spends his spare time working as an amateur private-eye to capture and reform criminals. When he is outwitted by the sly, international art...
6.2
222 votes
6.2
222 votes
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Stevenson
Cast Boris Karloff · Anna Lee · John Loder · Frank Cellier
Plot Dr. Laurience, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has...
6.1
64 votes
6.1
64 votes
Guns at Batasi
1964 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Guillermin
Cast Richard Attenborough · Jack Hawkins · Flora Robson · John Leyton
Plot A British regiment stationed in a Newly independent African state is preparing to celebrate the Queen's birthday when Colonel Deal is ordered to hand over command to the African Captain...
6.1
122 votes
6.1
122 votes
A Study in Terror
1965 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Hill
Cast John Neville · Donald Houston · John Fraser · Anthony Quayle
Plot Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson join the hunt for the notorious serial killer, Jack The Ripper.
6.0
302 votes
6.0
302 votes
Caesar and Cleopatra
1945 · Movie · 127 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Gabriel Pascal
Cast Vivien Leigh · Stewart Granger · Claude Rains · Cecil Parker
Plot Cleopatra hasn't been on the throne of the pharoahs of Egypt very long when Julius Caesar pays a visit. Caesar finds the prospect of romance more tempting than he expected,...
6.0
542 votes
6.0
542 votes