Parker Fennelly
Parker W. Fennelly ( born October 22, 1891 in Northeast Harbor, Maine, † January 22, 1988 in Peekskill, New York ) was an American actor.
Life
Parker Fennelly worked before beginning his film and radio career in the theater and went from 1924 to a total of 13 productions on Broadway. He also wrote two pieces that have been performed on Broadway. With its strong New Englander accent he spoke in hundreds of radio plays, among other things, he worked for seven years as a regular member of Fred Allen's popular radio show Allen 's Alley in the role of Titus Moody. Titus Moody is still the advertising face of the Group Pepperidge Farm and Fennelly embodied Moody 1957-1978 in the commercials for Pepperidge before successor took over this task.
After the end of Allen 's Abbey in 1949 he had his first film and television appearances. Mostly Parker Fennelly embodied mostly older, grumpy or comic Englanders. He stepped in over two dozen television series and turned ten films, including a small supporting role as the millionaire in Alfred Hitchcock's Black comedy The Trouble with Harry, and a starring role as father Kettle in The Kettles on Old McDonald's Farm, the last part of the film series on the Kettle family in which he replaced the regular performer Percy Kilbride.
His last film turned Fennelly in 1971. Fennelly Parker died at the age of 96 years. Only a few months after he died his wife Catherine Fennelly (1892-1988), with whom he had two children. They were buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.