Percy Kilbride: 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). It began in earnest with the part of Orion Peabody in the Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn wartime drama Keeper of the Flame (1942);...
Known For: Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (Pa Kettle), Ma and Pa Kettle at the Fair (Pa Kettle), Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (Pa Kettle), The Egg and I (Pa Kettle)