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.

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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

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