Robert Parrish

Robert Parrish was born on Jan 04, 1916 in USA. Robert Parrish's big-screen debut came with Olympic Games directed by Robert A. McGowan in 1927, strarring . Robert Parrish is known for History Is Made at Night directed by Frank Borzage, Charles Boyer stars as Paul Dumond and Jean Arthur as Irene Vail. Robert Parrish has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Robert Parrish achieved is Academy Awards, USA. The upcoming new movie Robert Parrish plays is Blue Bayou which will be released on Jan 15, 1990.

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).