Robert Parrish(1916-1995)

Robert Parrish was an Academy Award-winning film editor who also directed and acted in movies. As a child he appeared in films during the early 1930s, such as Les Lumières de la ville (1931) by Charles Chaplin and Lewis Milestone's À l'Ouest rien de nouveau (1930). As an editor he won an Academy Award for Sang et or (1947), the 1947 Robert Rossen film that starred John Garfield as a money-grubbing, two-timing boxer on the make. Parrish also worked on Les fous du roi (1949), an account of the rise and fall of a Louisiana politician that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Parrish then moved on to direct films during the 1950s and 1960s. Among his best received works was the brooding western Libre comme le vent (1958).

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7.6

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6.6

Mississippi Blues
6.6
- Director
- 1983
Marseille contrat
5.9
- Director
- 1974
Les brutes dans la ville
5.0
- Director
- 1971
Danger, planète inconnue
6.3
- Director
- 1969
Duffy le renard de Tanger
5.7
- Director
- 1968
Casino Royale
5.0
- Director (scenes with Peter Sellers and Orson Welles)
- 1967
Torero malgré lui
5.5
- Director
- 1967
Le jour d'après
6.1
- Director
- 1965
À la française
6.6
- Director
- 1963
La quatrième dimension
9.0
TV Series
- Director
- 1959–1960
Johnny Staccato
7.9
TV Series
- Director
- 1959
L'Aventurier du Rio-Grande
6.1
- Director
- 1959
Libre comme le vent
6.6
- Director
- 1958
L'enfer des tropiques
6.0
- Director
- 1957
Une femme extraordinaire
6.3
- Director
- 1955

Trivia
A couple of years after directing his last feature film, Marseille contrat (1974) Parrish published his autobiography, "Growing Up In Hollywood", which largely avoids mention of his directing career. The book was a big best-seller and was critically acclaimed, one British critic going so far as to say that it was so well-written, "one wonders if he hasn't been in the wrong business all along.".

Quotes
[on visiting John Ford on his deathbed] We talked about zoom lenses (he didn't approve), John Wayne (he approved), [Henry Fonda] (he approved), Patrick Kelley (he approved, but wished Kelley hadn't turned executive--"Terrible thing for a good sound-effects cutter to allow himself to become the president of a successful film-producing company") . . . . He then said, "Have you won any more Oscars?" I told him I hadn't, and he said, "It turns out they're not as unimportant as I thought, so you should go ahead and win as many as you can".