Aristocratic character actor Cecil Parker's first film rolled in 1929.
Subsequently he portrayed some memorable personages beginning with the
lily-livered businessman in Alfred
Hitchcock's The
Lady Vanishes (1938). After WWII, Parker returned to acting and
gained great success in post-war British cinema with a number of accomplished
support roles including Britannus in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945), the
villainous
Captain Boycott (1947), Major Courteney in The
Ladykillers (1955), Lord Loam in The
Admirable Crichton (1957), Professor Canford in Pure
Hell of St. Trinian's (1960) and Archdeacon Aspinall in Heaven's
Above! (1963).
