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Emory Parnell
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Actor Born: 1894 in St. Paul, MN Death: June 22, 1979 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:Trained at Iowa's Morningside College for a career as a musician, American actor "Emory Parnell" spent his earliest performing years as a concert violinist. He worked the Chautauqua and Lyceum tent circuits for a decade before leaving the road in 1930. For the next few seasons, Parnell acted and narrated in commercial and industrial films produced in Detroit. Determining that the oppurtunities and renumeration were better in Hollywood, Emory and his actress wife Effie boarded the Super Chief and headed for California. Endowed with a ruddy Irish countenance and perpetual air of frustration, Parnell immediately landed a string of character roles as cops, small town business owners, fathers-in-law and landlords (though his very first film part in "Bing Crosby"'s "Dr. Rhythm" [1938] was cut out before release). In roles both large and small, Parnell became an inescapable presence in B-films of the '40s;... Full Biography
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