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Woodrow Parfrey
☼ Born on5 enero 1922, in New York City, New York, USA
† Died on29 enero 1984, in Los Angeles, California, USA, cause heart attack
Biography:
Parfrey was born Sydney Woodrow Parfrey in New York City, New York, to Hazel (James) and Sidney Parfrey, both Welsh immigrants. One of the most interesting character actors to emerge on American film and television in the 1960s, Parfrey brought a quirky charisma to every role he played, from shopkeepers to space-age simians. His noted turn as the unbalanced informer in Broadway's "Advise and Consent" (1961) set the standard for his offbeat, conspiratorial persona in dozens of TV and movie appearances into the 1980s. Always a supporting player receiving inconsistently deferential billing, Parfrey did manage some focal TV guest-star roles, mainly in the late sixties, and a few big A-movie parts, most notably as one of the wretched prisoners in Papillon (1973). Parfrey's association with that film's di
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rector, Franklin Schaffner, also included his bit as one of the three "See No Evil" orangutan judges in El planeta de los simios (1968) (he would don the prosthetics again for the pilot of the spinoff TV series). In addition, Parfrey also turned up in the unofficial repertory companies of both Clint Eastwood and Don Siegel. His determination to bring that edgy "something extra" to his profession lives on in his son, the "underground" publisher Adam Parfrey.
In the role of actor
El planeta de los simios (1968) (21/05/2025)
Más Allá del Giro Final, un Clásico que Todavía Ruge con Preguntas Incómodas En la cúspide de la ciencia ficción cinematográfica, pocas películas han dejado una huella tan indeleble y han provocado tanta reflexión como “El Planeta de los Simios” (1968). Dirigida con maestría por Franklin J. Schaffner y basada en la provocadora novela de […]