Stage: Appeared in "The Innocent Party". St James Theatre, King Street, Piccadilly, Westminster, London, SW1. Cast: Elizabeth Allan, Howard Davies, Mary Ellis, Jack Lambert, Alison Pickard, Basil Radford and Henry Thompson.
His favourite role was often quoted as that of Charles Condamine in Noel
Coward's farce "Blithe Spirit". It ran for 1,997 performances, (from
1941), few of which Parker missed, establishing his reputation as one of
Britain's foremost comedy actors. He himself contributed a sketch.