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Percy Kilbride
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Actor Born: July 16, 1888 in San Francisco, CA Death: December 11, 1964 in Hollywood, CA Biography:Familiar to million as the twangy, bucolic Pa Kettle, "Percy Kilbride" first stepped on the stage in the role of an 18th-century French fop in a San Francisco production of Tale of Two Cities. Interrupting his career to serve in World War I, Kilbride spent the postwar years in regional stock companies. He made a few scattered movie appearances in the 1930s, then returned to Hollywood to stay in 1942, when he re-created his Broadway role in the film version of "George Washington Slept Here". Kilbride played a variety of rustic parts until 1947, when he created the Pa Kettle role in "The Egg and I". From 1949 through 1955, he starred exclusively in Universal's "Ma and Pa Kettle" series, retiring from the screen after "Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki" (1955) (Kilbride's co-star "Marjorie Main" appeared in two more "Kettle" films opposite "Arthur Hunnicutt" and "Parker Fennelly"). In 1964, "Percy Kilbride" and... Full Biography
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