Percy Kilbride

Percy Kilbride was born on Jul 16, 1888 in USA. Percy Kilbride's big-screen debut came with Crazy House directed by Edward F. Cline in 1943, strarring Col. Cornelius Merriweather. Percy Kilbride is known for The Southerner directed by Jean Renoir, Zachary Scott stars as Sam Tucker and Betty Field as Nona Tucker. The upcoming new movie Percy Kilbride plays is Ma and Pa Kettle on Vacation which will be released on Apr 20, 1953.

He had a long career in theater before making movies, playing hundreds of roles, mostly rustic bumpkins, in stage and stock. His film career included two isolated early films: Le fou des îles (1933) and Soak the Rich (1936). It began in earnest with the part of Orion Peabody in the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn wartime drama La flamme sacrée (1942); Kilbride was already fifty-four by then. The movie public really came to recognize him when he played the part of Pa Kettle (against Marjorie Main's Ma) in L'oeuf et moi (1947), a role he reprised for seven more "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies, the last of which, and the last of his career, was in 1955.