[2] In 1927, Parsons performed with The Strolling Players of Boston acting company.

[3] On Broadway, he portrayed James Case in Unto the Third (1933), Saul of Tarsus in The Vigil (1948), and Albert Plaschke in Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep (1950).

[4] Milton Parsons signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1939 as a character actor.

Bald-headed and wide-eyed, with a soft-spoken, British-accented voice (he actually hailed from Massachusetts), Parsons became typecast as morticians, coroners, mad doctors, and dangerous eccentrics, although he often played for comedy with a broad smile and bulging eyes.

After one year with M-G-M, he began freelancing and worked steadily for various studios.