Ken Parry

Kenneth Parry (20 June 1930 – 5 December 2007) was an English actor, born in Wigan, Lancashire. Bald, portly and cherubic, Parry portrayed mainly comic character parts in a number of films, but was more prolific on television, in such series as The Army Game, The Avengers, The Baron, The Newcomers, Dixon of Dock Green, Nearest and Dearest, Love Thy Neighbour, Z-Cars, The Sweeney, Coronation Street, Hazell and Children's Ward.

Selected filmography Friends and Neighbours (1959) - Sid Just for Fun (1963) - Lift Attendant The Liquidator (1965) - Tailor (uncredited) Out of the Unknown ('Time in Advance', episode) (1965) - Ballaskia The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) - Hospital Receptionist (uncredited) The Taming of the Shrew (1967) - Tailor Otley (1968) - 3rd Businessman Start the Revolution Without Me (1970) - Dr. Boileau Spring and Port Wine (1970) - Pawnbroker Burke & Hare (1972) - Fat Man in Brothel That's Your Funeral (1972) - Railway Porter Bequest to the Nation (1973) - Victory's Cook (uncredited) Mistress Pamela (1974) - Parson Lisztomania (1975) - Rossini Joseph Andrews (1977) - Mr. Wilson's Companion Come Play with Me (1977) - Podsnap What's Up Nurse! (1978) - 1st Gay Young Man Hawk the Slayer (1980) - Thomas Lifeforce (1985) - Sykes (serial killer) The Rainbow Thief (1990) - Snow