Woodrow Parfrey
Date of birth: 1922-10-05
Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Woody Parfrey, Sydney Woodrow Parfrey
Biography
Sydney Woodrow Parfrey (October 5, 1922 – July 29, 1984) was an American film and television actor from the 1950s to the early 1980s. He is often remembered as "one of TV's great slimeball villains".
Movie Credits
Planet of the Apes
1968-02-07
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans fo
Dirty Harry
1971-12-23
When a madman dubbed 'Scorpio' terrorizes San Francisco, hard-nosed cop, Harry Callahan – famous for
Stay Hungry
1976-04-23
A dishonest businessman asks rich layabout Craig Blake to help him buy a gym, which will be demolish
When Every Day Was the Fourth of July
1978-03-12
A little girl convinces her attorney father to defend a mute war veteran accused of murdering a stor
The Seduction
1982-01-22
A beautiful newscaster is stalked and tormented by a photographer obsessed with her beauty.
Papillon
1973-12-16
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful pris
Cold Turkey
1971-02-19
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco
Sam Whiskey
1969-04-01
A widow hires an ex-gambler to retrieve gold bars from a sunken river boat in Colorado and discreetl
Charley Varrick
1973-09-19
Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends, but instead of obtaining a small amoun
The War Lord
1965-11-17
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal village where an earlier attempt to build a defe
Scalplock
1966-04-10
This Western is a pilot for the series "The Iron Horse," in which a dapper frontier gambler wins a r
The Seniors
1978-06-30
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million doll
Frances
1982-12-03
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t
The New Maverick
1978-09-03
Gambling brothers Bret (James Garner) and Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) are, as usual, hot on the trail
Cattle King
1963-07-08
A rich landowner of Wyoming fights to prevent the Texas herds from trampling his rich meadows.
The Sunshine Patriot
1968-12-16
An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfil
The Family Nobody Wanted
1975-02-19
A minister and his wife take in poor and troubled children that nobody else wants and soon they find
The King's Pirate
1967-07-20
Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirate
This Is the West That Was
1974-12-17
A lighthearted look at the saga of Wild Bill Hickok and his relationship with Calamity Jane as he is
B.J. and the Bear
1978-10-04
In this pilot film, B.J. McKay, a guitar-playing independent trucker who travels with a fun-loving c
Wyoming Mail
1950-10-18
In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly temp
The Outlaw Josey Wales
1976-06-30
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to tra
Silent Night, Lonely Night
1969-12-16
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief int
The Movie Murderer
1970-02-02
An experienced arson investigator takes along his young associate as they try to find an arsonist wh
Melvin Purvis G-Man
1975-02-28
Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets
Bronco Billy
1980-06-11
An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luc
The Flim-Flam Man
1967-08-22
Mordecai Jones, a silver-tongued swindler and self-proclaimed “M.B.S., C.S., D.D.—Master of Back-Sta
The Incredible Journey of Doctor Meg Laurel
1979-01-02
A big-city female doctor returns to her roots in the backwoods of the Blue Ridge Mountains to bring
Used Cars
1980-07-11
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to sav
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968-01-17
Wealthy playboy David Sloane wrongly believes good girl Carol Corman is his best friend's mistress.
Hearts of the West
1975-10-08
Lewis Tater writes Wild West dime novels and dreams of actually becoming a cowboy. When he goes west
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
1971-12-19
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they a
It's a Mile from Here to Glory
1978-05-05
A high school track star is involved in a life-threatening accident and now must learn to depend on
Johnny Gunman
1957-12-01
Set over the course of one night in New York, Johnny Gunman follows a tense battle between two mob b
The Return of the World's Greatest Detective
1976-06-16
A Los Angeles cop falls off his motorcycle, strikes his head and wakes up believing himself to be Sh
The Andersonville Trial
1970-05-17
A dramatization of the 1865 war-crimes trial of Henry Wirz, commandant of the notorious Confederate
The Sting II
1983-02-18
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica,
Back to the Planet of the Apes
1980-11-17
Astronauts Pete Burke and Allan Virdon crash on Earth in the far future and are captured by the apes
Crowhaven Farm
1970-11-24
A couple, Maggie and Ben Porter, inherit an old farmhouse and move in, hoping to reinvigorate their
Carny
1980-05-23
Tired of being a small-town waitress, Donna departs with the latest carnival show, living with enter
No Place to Run
1972-09-19
An adopted boy's parents are killed, and to keep him from returning to the state's custody, he and h
Oklahoma Crude
1973-07-03
In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly dr
A Very Missing Person
1972-03-04
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
Madigan
1968-03-29
NYPD detectives Bonaro and Madigan lose their guns to fugitive Barney Benesch. As compensation, they
Valley Forge
1975-12-03
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary W
Jinxed!
1982-10-22
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young b
Who Killed the Mysterious Mr. Foster?
1971-02-01
An alcoholic drifter decides to run for sheriff in a small town. However, in order to get elected, h
Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969-10-14
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into Ger
The Alpha Caper
1973-10-06
A parole officer forced into retirement gets together three ex-convicts to pull off a $30-million ar
The Tenth Month
1979-09-16
An unmarried, middle-aged woman accidentally gets pregnant by an internationally renowned pianist an
Hunter
1973-01-09
A fatal crash at a racetrack injures a government agent and exposes an enemy brainwashing scheme.
"Waiting for Godot" Intercut with “Krazy Kat”
1958-01-01
From Camera Three, excepts of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot are combined with George Herriman's
The Million Dollar Incident
1961-04-21
A couple of crooks made off with one of the largest hauls. The crime - they made off with Jackie Gle