Parker Fennelly

Parker Fennelly (October 22, 1891 – January 22, 1988) was an American radio and film actor. He participated in hundreds of radio shows.

He performed on stage, radio, film, and television. He grew up in Maine and studied acting at the Leland Powers School in Boston. Fennelly worked in theater for much of his career, appearing in 15 Broadway plays from 1924 to 1955, including Mister Pitt (with Walter Huston), Our Town, and The Southwest Corner. Two of Fennelly's plays were produced on Broadway: Fulton of Oak Falls (co-written with George M. Cohan) in 1937, and Cuckoos on the Hearth in 1941. The latter was often performed thereafter in summer theaters around the country. Several other plays of Fennelly's were also successfully produced.

Fennelly began working on radio during the late 1920s in a comedy duo with Arthur Allen called the Stebbins Boys, appearing on the programs The Stebbins Boys of Bucksport Point and Snow Village Sketches (also known as Soconyland Sketches). Fennelly and Allen portrayed stereotypical dry New Englanders, a role Fennelly would play over and over.

Fennelly appeared on many live television programs of the 1950s, such as Philco Television Playhouse, Studio One, and Lux ​​Video Theatre. Among his film credits were Alfred Hitchcock's The Trouble With Harry (1955), The Kettles On Old MacDonald's Farm (1957), Pretty Poison (1968), and Angel In My Pocket (1969). From the late 1950s to the 1980s, he was a commercial spokesperson for Pepperidge Farm on radio and television, reprising the role of Titus Moody.

Fennelly embodied the moody New England Yankee with roles in radio, film and television. Weekly he played Titus Moody on the program "Allen's Alley", a highly successful radio show hosted by Fred Allen.

In later years he became familiar as a television spokesperson for the Campbell Soup Company. In 1971 he worked in the Universal film How to Frame a Figg, alongside Don Knotts.

He died at the age of 96 in Peekskill, New York. He is buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York.