Robert Parrish

• Date of Birth:

  4 December 1916 Columbus, Georgia, USA

Robert Parrish was an Academy Award winning film editor who also directed and acted in movies. Mr. Parrish appeared as a child in films during the early 1930's such as 'City Lights' by Charles Chaplin and 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. As an editor, Mr. Parrish won an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947), the 1947 Robert Rossen film that starred John Garfield as a money grubbing, two timing boxer on the make. The two men worked together again on 'All the King's Men... more

Robert Parrish was an Academy Award winning film editor who also directed and acted in movies. Mr. Parrish appeared as a child in films during the early 1930's such as 'City Lights' by Charles Chaplin and 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. As an editor, Mr. Parrish won an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947), the 1947 Robert Rossen film that starred John Garfield as a money grubbing, two timing boxer on the make. The two men worked together again on 'All the King's Men', an account of the rise and fall of a Louisiana politician that won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1949. Mr. Parrish then moved on to direct films during the 1950's.