Milton Parsons

• Born: May 19, 1907 in Gloucester, Massachusetts
• Died: May 15, 1980 in Los Angeles, California
• Occupation: Actor
• Active: '40s-'60s
• Major Genres: Comedy, Mystery
• Career Highlights: Man at Large, The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Ghost of A. Chantz, The Twilight Zone: The New Exhibit
• First Major Screen Credit: Man at Large (1941)

Biography

Bald, cadaverous, hollow-eyed, doom-voiced actor Milton Parsons began appearing in films in the late 1930s. In an era wherein being typecast in Hollywood assured an actor a steady paycheck, Parsons fattened his bank account by playing dozens of undertakers and morticians. He was also an effective psychotic type, most notably as the lead in 1942's The Hidden Hand. Parsons entered the "film noir" hall of fame in the tiny role of the jury foreman in 1947's They Won't Believe Me; the film's unforgettable final image was a screen-filling close-up of Parsons, gloomily intoning an all-too-late "Not Guilty." Active into the 1970s, Parsons showed up in TV series ranging from Twilight Zone to The Dick Van Dyke Show, his morbid appearance enhanced by the addition of a satanic goatee. Even in his last roles, Milton Parsons adhered strictly to type; in the 1976 TV movie Griffin and Phoenix, for example, he portrayed a guest lecturer at a support group for terminally ill cancer victims. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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