By Vlad Zakh · September 10, 2026
Emory Parnell was a familiar Hollywood character actor of the 1940s and 50s who appeared in dozens of comedies, dramas and westerns, including the Ma and Pa Kettle series. Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm hunts uranium on the family farm, Two of a Kind passes off a carnival grifter as a long-lost child, All the World’s a Stooge poses the Three Stooges as children, and Apache Trail defends a shipment from an outlaw brother. East Side of Heaven and Unholy Partners round out the list.
01 Emory Parnell appears in this comedy where the Kettles abandon their modern home to search for uranium back on the family farm.
Directed by Edward Sedgwick · 1h 20m · Rated G
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02 Emory Parnell appears in this noir where a con woman and a lawyer scheme to pass off a carnival grifter as a wealthy couple's long-lost son.
Directed by Henry Levin · 1h 15m · Rated NR
03 Emory Parnell features in this Three Stooges short where the trio pose as children for a millionaire's wife eager to impress her friends.
Directed by Del Lord · 0h 17m · Rated NR
04 Emory Parnell features in this western about a stagecoach way station manager who must defend a valuable shipment from both his outlaw brother and Apache attacks.
Directed by Richard Thorpe & Richard Rosson · 1h 06m · Rated NR
05 Emory Parnell is in this Bing Crosby comedy about a man who unexpectedly becomes the proxy father of a baby and gets swept into the child's wealthy family drama.
Directed by David Butler · 1h 28m · Rated NR
06 Emory Parnell features in this Edward G. Robinson drama about a crusading newsman who launches a tabloid in an uneasy fifty-fifty partnership with a dangerous gangster.
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy · 1h 34m · Rated NR
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