James Parrott

Career Overview

James Parrott has 169 screen credits in a career dating back to 1918. Their work is anchored in the Our Gang: The MGM talkies (1929-1938) universe with 1 titles. Signature works include Perfect Day, Pardon Us, Another Fine Mess. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

169

Birth Date

1897-08-01

Birth Place

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Known For

• 

  Perfect Day
• 

  Pardon Us
• 

  Another Fine Mess
• 

  The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case
• 

  Two Tars
• 

  The Tin Man

Associated Universes

• Our Gang: The MGM talkies (1929-1938) (1 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Stan Laurel (5 collaborations)
• Oliver Hardy (5 collaborations)
• Edgar Kennedy (2 collaborations)
• James Finlayson (2 collaborations)
• Tiny Sandford (2 collaborations)
• Thelma Todd (2 collaborations)
• Kay Deslys (1 collaborations)
• Isabelle Keith (1 collaborations)
• June Marlowe (1 collaborations)
• Wilfred Lucas (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (60 credits)

  • The Parrott Chase

    (archive footage) (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2009
  • The King

    Minor Role (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1930
  • Pay the Cashier

    actor

    actors
    1926
  • Soft Pedal

    Willing

    actor

    actors
    1926
  • Don't Butt In

    The Roustabout

    actor

    actors
    1926
  • Between Meals

    In Trouble

    actor

    actors
    1926
  • Are Parents Pickles?

    Fire Salesman

    actor

    actors
    1925
  • The Caretaker's Daughter

    The Caretaker (as Jimmie Parrott)

    actor

    actors
    1925
  • The House of Flickers

    actor

    actors
    1925
  • A Deep Sea Panic

    actor

    actors
    1924
  • Sittin' Pretty

    Bearded Lunatic

    actor

    actors
    1924
  • Get Busy

    Taller pal

    actor

    actors
    1924
  • Join the Circus

    Trainer

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Dear Ol' Pal

    Lucian Dillgiggle

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • No Pets

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Take the Air

    Iron-worker

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Post No Bills

    The Bill Poster

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • The Uncovered Wagon

    Bill Bunion

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • The Smile Wins

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Shoot Straight

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Tight Shoes

    The New Clerk

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Jailed and Bailed

    Paul (as Paul Parrott)

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Paste and Paper

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Watch Your Wife

    actor

    actors
    1923
  • Blaze Away

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • Harvest Hands

    The Son

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • Shine 'Em Up

    Paul, the Hustler

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • The Golf Bug

    Paul

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • Shiver and Shake

    The Newlywed Husband

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • Face the Camera

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • Bone Dry

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • The Landlubber

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • Touch all the Bases

    Paul Parrott

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • Take Next Car

    Chief Engineer

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • The Sleuth

    Bellboy / the Sleuth

    actor

    actors
    1922
  • Big Town Ideas

    Spick Spague

    actor

    actors
    1921
  • His First Flat Tire

    actor

    actors
    1920
  • Way Out West

    actor

    actors
    1920
  • Don't Shove

    Party Guest

    actor

    actors
    1919
  • Count Your Change

    actor

    actors
    1919
  • Don't Park Here

    A Car Owner

    actor

    actors
    1919
  • Young Mr. Jazz

    (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1919
  • A Sammy in Siberia

    (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1919
  • Hustling for Health

    Man missing his train

    actor

    actors
    1919
  • Do You Love Your Wife?

    actor

    actors
    1919
  • An Auto Nut

    The Auto Nut's Lawyer (as Paul Parrott)

    actor

    actors
    1919
  • Just Rambling Along

    Waiter / Chef Assistant

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Bride and Gloom

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • An Ozark Romance

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Fireman Save My Child

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Hey There

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • It's a Wild Life

    Cab driver

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Pipe the Whiskers

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Let's Go

    Sophisticated gentleman

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Here Come the Girls

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Look Pleasant, Please

    Drunken Swell (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • A Gasoline Wedding

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Beat It

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • Hit Him Again

    actor

    actors
    1918
  • The Lamb

    actor

    actors
    1918

• art (1 credits)

  • Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

    set decoration

    art
    2007

• directing (81 credits)

  • Laurel & Hardy - Highlights

    director

    directing
    2002
  • Do Your Stuff

    director

    directing
    1935
  • The Misses Stooge

    director

    directing
    1935
  • The Tin Man

    director

    directing
    1935
  • Sing Sister Sing

    director

    directing
    1935
  • Treasure Blues

    director

    directing
    1935
  • Washee Ironee

    director

    directing
    1934
  • Opened by Mistake

    director

    directing
    1934
  • Benny, from Panama

    director

    directing
    1934
  • A Duke for a Day

    director

    directing
    1934
  • Mixed Nuts

    director

    directing
    1934
  • Twice Two

    director

    directing
    1933
  • Mr. Bride

    director

    directing
    1932
  • Now We'll Tell One

    director

    directing
    1932
  • Girl Grief

    director

    directing
    1932
  • Young Ironsides

    director

    directing
    1932
  • County Hospital

    director

    directing
    1932
  • The Chimp

    director

    directing
    1932
  • Hinter Schloss und Riegel

    director

    directing
    1932
  • The Music Box

    director

    directing
    1932
  • Helpmates

    director

    directing
    1932
  • What a Bozo!

    director

    directing
    1931
  • Skip the Maloo!

    director

    directing
    1931
  • Pardon Us

    director

    directing
    1931
  • The Panic Is On

    director

    directing
    1931
  • One of the Smiths

    director

    directing
    1931
  • Haunted at Midnight

    director

    directing
    1931
  • Rough Seas

    director

    directing
    1931
  • Messing Around

    director

    directing
    1931
  • The lady from Chicago

    director

    directing
    1931
  • The Pip from Pittsburg

    director

    directing
    1931
  • Pardon Us

    director

    directing
    1931
  • Another Fine Mess

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Night of Goblins

    director

    directing
    1930
  • The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Radiomanía

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Hog Wild

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Shivering and Shaking

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Below Zero

    director

    directing
    1930
  • The Night Life

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Brats

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Blotto

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Thieves

    director

    directing
    1930
  • Night Owls

    director

    directing
    1930
  • The Hoose-Gow

    director

    directing
    1929
  • They Go Boom!

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Perfect Day

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Stewed, Fried and Boiled

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Lesson No. 1

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Furnace Trouble

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Ruby Lips

    director

    directing
    1929
  • Chasing Husbands

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Habeas Corpus

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Two Tars

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Should Married Men Go Home?

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Their Purple Moment

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Galloping Ghosts

    director

    directing
    1928
  • All for Nothing

    director

    directing
    1928
  • Never the Dames Shall Meet

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Assistant Wives

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Now I'll Tell One

    director

    directing
    1927
  • The Lighter That Failed

    director

    directing
    1927
  • The Sting of Stings

    director

    directing
    1927
  • What Women Did for Me

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Us

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Fluttering Hearts

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Bigger and Better Blondes

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Forgotten Sweeties

    director

    directing
    1927
  • A One Mama Man

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Are Brunettes Safe?

    director

    directing
    1927
  • Many Scrappy Returns

    director

    directing
    1927
  • There Ain't No Santa Claus

    director

    directing
    1926
  • On the Front Page

    director

    directing
    1926
  • Should Sailors Marry?

    director

    directing
    1925
  • The 'Fraidy Cat

    director

    directing
    1924
  • Love's Detour

    director

    directing
    1924
  • Powder and Smoke

    director

    directing
    1924
  • Hard Knocks

    director

    directing
    1924
  • Don't Forget

    director

    directing
    1924
  • Just a Minute

    director

    directing
    1924
  • The Pickaninny

    director

    directing
    1921

• writing (27 credits)

  • Block-Heads

    writer

    writing
    1938
  • Swiss Miss

    screenplay

    writing
    1938
  • Way Out West

    screenplay

    writing
    1937
  • Beginner's Luck

    writer

    writing
    1935
  • The Midnight Patrol

    writer

    writing
    1933
  • Twice Two

    writer

    writing
    1933
  • Their First Mistake

    writer

    writing
    1932
  • The Chimp

    writer

    writing
    1932
  • The Music Box

    writer

    writing
    1932
  • Helpmates

    writer

    writing
    1932
  • One Good Turn

    writer

    writing
    1931
  • Come Clean

    writer

    writing
    1931
  • Hog Wild

    story

    writing
    1930
  • Brats

    writer

    writing
    1930
  • Should Married Men Go Home?

    writer

    writing
    1928
  • On the Front Page

    writer

    writing
    1926
  • Get 'Em Young

    writer

    writing
    1926
  • Wise Guys Prefer Brunettes

    writer

    writing
    1926
  • Along Came Auntie

    writer

    writing
    1926
  • Say It with Babies

    writer

    writing
    1926
  • Wandering Papas

    writer

    writing
    1926
  • Unfriendly Enemies

    writer

    writing
    1925
  • Laughing Ladies

    scenario writer

    writing
    1925
  • Powder and Smoke

    writer

    writing
    1924
  • Hard Knocks

    writer

    writing
    1924
  • Don't Forget

    writer

    writing
    1924
  • Just a Minute

    writer

    writing
    1924