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Percy William Kilbride (July 16, 1888 – December 11, 1964) was an American character actor. He made a career of playing country "hicks," most memorably as Pa Kettle in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of feature films.
Kilbride, who began acting at the age of 12, scored his greatest success in the role of a drawling, salty, slow‐grinning farmer called Pa Kettle. Mr. Kilbride was teamed with Marjorie Main as...
Percy Kilbride. Actor: Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm. 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: White Woman (1933) and Soak the Rich (1936).
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- San Francisco, California, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Percy Kilbride was a character actor who played hundreds of roles, mostly rustic bumpkins, in theater and film. He is best known for his role as Pa Kettle in the "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies, which he starred in from 1947 to 1955.
- Actor, Soundtrack
- December 11, 1964
- July 16, 1888
After the success of The Egg and I, Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride starred in their own series of Ma and Pa Kettle movies, which became box-office bonanzas for Universal Pictures, having earned an estimated $35 million for the entire series.
Already widowed and now recovering from the accidental death of her beloved teenage son, famous opera singer Helen (Jeanette MacDonald), with her son’s pet collie Lassie, finds a country retreat and rents from Mr. Willigoode (Percy Kilbride), in MGM’s The Sun Comes Up, 1949.
Familiar to million as the twangy, bucolic Pa Kettle, Percy Kilbride first stepped on the stage in the role of an 18th-century French fop in a San Francisco production of Tale of Two Cities.
