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Larry Parks is a Actor American born on 13 december 1914 at Olathe (USA)

Larry Parks

Larry Parks
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Birth name Samuel Klausman Lawrence Parks
Nationality USA
Birth 13 december 1914 at Olathe (USA)
Death 13 april 1975 (at 60 years)

Larry Parks (December 13, 1914 – April 13, 1975) was an American stage and movie actor. His career arced from bit player and supporting roles to top billing before his career was virtually ended when he admitted to having once been a member of a Communist party cell, which led to his blacklisting by all Hollywood studios. His best known role was Al Jolson, whom he portrayed in two films, The Jolson Story (1946), and Jolson Sings Again (1949).

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The Jolson Story (1946)
(Actor)

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Filmography of Larry Parks (28 films)

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Actor

Freud: The Secret Passion, 1h56
Directed by John Huston
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Psychologie, Psychanalyse
Actors Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Susan Kohner, Fernand Ledoux, Larry Parks, David McCallum
Roles Dr. Joseph Breuer
Rating71% 3.589733.589733.589733.589733.58973
This pseudo-biographical movie depicts Sigmund Freud's life from 1885 to 1890. At this time, most of his colleagues refused to treat hysteric patients, believing their symptoms to be ploys for attention. Freud, however, learns to use hypnosis to uncover the reasons for the patients' neuroses through his mentor and friend Josef Breuer. His main patient in the film is a young woman who refused to drink water and is plagued by a recurrent nightmare.
Tiger by the Tail, 1h20
Directed by John Gilling
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Crime
Actors Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Dame Thora Hird, Donald Stewart, Cyril Chamberlain, Lisa Daniely
Roles John Desmond
Rating57% 2.865532.865532.865532.865532.86553
An American journalist works to expose a criminal gang in London. But his investigation of their counterfeiting activities leads to his kidnapping by the gang.
Love Is Better Than Ever, 1h21
Directed by Stanley Donen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Larry Parks, Elizabeth Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson, Alex Gerry, Tom Tully, Ann Doran
Roles Jud Parker
Rating57% 2.855162.855162.855162.855162.85516
Confirmed bachelor Jud Parker likes his life the way it is. A talent agent, he goes to New Haven, Connecticut on a client's behalf and meets Anastacia "Stacie" Macaboy, who owns a dance school.
Emergency Wedding, 1h18
Directed by Edward Buzzell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, Willard Parker, Una Merkel, Alan Reed, Eduard Franz
Roles Peter Judson Kirk Jr.
Rating59% 2.957592.957592.957592.957592.95759
Dr. Helen Hunt is a physician married to millionaire Peter Judson Kirk Jr., who is jealous his wife is spending too much time with her male patients. He makes a fool of himself trying to prove her guilt, which causes his wife to leave. But then he puts up the money for a new hospital and she comes back to him.
Jolson Sings Again, 1h36
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, William Demarest, Ludwig Donath, Bill Goodwin, Myron McCormick
Roles Al Jolson / Himself
Rating65% 3.2926253.2926253.2926253.2926253.292625
In this follow-up to The Jolson Story, we pick up the singer's career just as he has returned to the stage after a premature retirement. But his wife has left him and the appeal of the spotlight is not what it used to be. This time Jolson (Larry Parks) trades in the stage for life in the fast lane: women, horses, travel. His father becomes increasingly concerned about his frivolous lifestyle. With the death of his mother (Tamara Shayne) and the beginning of World War II, Jolson comes back to earth—and returns to the stage.
The Gallant Blade, 1h21
Directed by Henry Levin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance
Actors Larry Parks, Marguerite Chapman, Victor Jory, George Macready, Onslow Stevens
Roles Lt. David Picard
Rating56% 2.8437952.8437952.8437952.8437952.843795
The Swordsman
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Genres Adventure
Actors Larry Parks, Ellen Drew, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Ray Collins, Holmes Herbert
Roles Alexander MacArden
Rating58% 2.9089052.9089052.9089052.9089052.908905
Les amours contrariées de deux personnages en Écosse au XVII siècle. Deux familles, les MacArden et les Glowan, se vouent une haine farouche. Mais Alexander MacArden et Barbara Glowan se découvrent des sentiments l'un pour l'autre.
The Swordsman, 1h20
Directed by Joseph H. Lewis
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Larry Parks, Edgar Buchanan, Ellen Drew, Marc Platt, Nedrick Young, Robert Shayne
Roles Alexander MacArden
Rating58% 2.9089052.9089052.9089052.9089052.908905
This script must be run from the command line
Down to Earth, 1h41
Directed by Alexander Hall
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films based on mythology, Musical films, Films based on Greco-Roman mythology
Actors Rita Hayworth, Roland Culver, Larry Parks, James Gleason, Marc Platt, Edward Everett Horton
Roles Danny Miller
Rating60% 3.0494253.0494253.0494253.0494253.049425
Hayworth stars as the Muse Terpsichore who is annoyed that popular Broadway producer Danny Miller (Parks) is putting on a play which portrays the Muses as man-crazy tarts fighting for the attention of a pair of Air Force pilots who crashed on Mount Parnassus (in mythology, the Muses lived on Mount Helicon). She asks permission from Mr. Jordan to go to Earth and fix the play. Jordan agrees and sends Messenger 7013 (Horton) to keep an eye on her.
The Jolson Story, 2h8
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Larry Parks, Evelyn Keyes, William Demarest, Bill Goodwin, Ludwig Donath, Scotty Beckett
Roles Al Jolson
Rating71% 3.593453.593453.593453.593453.59345
American burlesque performer Steve Martin (William Demarest) offers to play a song for his audience, if they agree to sing along. Only one person does sing, a young boy named Asa Yoelson (Scotty Beckett). Steve is bowled over by the boy's voice, but Asa realizes he should be singing at the synagogue with his father, Cantor Yoelson (Ludwig Donath). Asa arrives late, and is later reprimanded by his strict father. Asa is reluctant to explain where he was, but Steve Martin visits the Yoelsons' home. He explains that he heard Asa sing at the burlesque house, and that he wants Asa to be part of his act. Papa Yoelson refuses to consider it.
Renegades
Renegades (1946)
, 1h27
Directed by George Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Evelyn Keyes, Willard Parker, Larry Parks, Edgar Buchanan, Jim Bannon, Forrest Tucker
Roles Ben Dembrow / Ben Taylor
Rating58% 2.908152.908152.908152.908152.90815
La bande des Denbrow fait des ravages dans l'ouest. Alors qu'ils font un raid sur la ville de Prairie City, Ben le fils du meneur Kirk Denbrow, se porte au secours d'Hannah Brockway. Cette dernière tombe aussitôt amoureuse de lui. Elle décide de le suivre et vivre avec les criminels mais Ben est bien décidé à changer de vie et devenir honnête ...
Counter-Attack, 1h30
Directed by Zoltan Korda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks, Roman Bohnen, George Macready, Ludwig Donath
Roles Kirichenko
Rating67% 3.386283.386283.386283.386283.38628
In 1942, both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are gathering forces and supplies in one particular sector of the Eastern Front for a major attack. The Soviets are secretly constructing a bridge at night over a river. To avoid detection, it is being built underwater, just below the surface.
Destroyer
Destroyer (1943)
, 1h39
Directed by William A. Seiter, Ray Enright
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Edward G. Robinson, Glenn Ford, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan, Leo Gorcey, Regis Toomey
Roles Ens. Johnson (uncredited)
Rating62% 3.1492853.1492853.1492853.1492853.149285
In 1943 retired Navy Chief Bosun's Mate Steve "Boley" Boleslavski (Edward G. Robinson) helps build the destroyer John Paul Jones, the namesake of the ship he served on in World War I, sunk a quarter century later while saving an aircraft carrier from being torpedoed. When he finds out that an old shipmate, Lieutenant Commander Clark (Regis Toomey), is the ship's new captain, he returns to the Navy and wrangles a berth as the ship's leading chief bosun's mate.
Is Everybody Happy?, 1h13
Directed by Charles Barton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Actors Nan Wynn, Larry Parks, Lynn Merrick, Bob Haymes, Fern Emmett, Eddie Kane
Roles Jerry Stewart
Rating60% 3.0447753.0447753.0447753.0447753.044775