About
| Birth Name: | Harry Samuel Parks |
| Birth Notes: | 24 April 1940, Corona, California, USA |
| Height: | 6' |
| Family: | * 'Carolyn ?' (1969 - ?); 2 children * '?' (1955 - ?) (divorced); 1 child * Jan Moriarty (1964 - 2 March 1964) (her death) * 'Oriana Parks' (? - present) |
Filmography
| 13 Moons (2002) as Bartender |
| From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) as Texas Ranger Earl McGraw |
| Full Tilt Boogie (1997) as Himself - 'Sheriff McGraw' |
| Grindhouse (2007) as Earl McGraw (segments "Planet Terror"/"Death Proof") |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) as Earl McGraw |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004) as Esteban Vihaio |
| Machete (2010) as Earl McGraw |
| Niagara, Niagara (1997) as Walter |
| Nightmare Beach (1988) as Doc Willet |
| Noble Things (2008) as Pete Collins |
| North Sea Hijack (1979) as Shulman |
| Planet Terror (2007) as Earl McGraw |
| The Last Hard Men (1976) as Pima County Sheriff Noel Nye |
| The Librarians (2003) as William Clark |
| The Listening (2006) as James Wagley |
| Three Priests (2008) as Jacob |
| Arizona Heat (1988) as Larry Kapinski |
| Between Friends (1973) as Tony |
| Big Bad Love (2001) as Mr. Aaron |
| Bullfighter (2000) as Cordobes |
| Bus Riley's Back in Town (1965) as Bus Riley |
| Caged Fury (1989) as Mr. Collins |
| Club Life (1986) as Tank |
| Death Proof (2007) as Earl McGraw |
| Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994) as Tommy O'Shea |
| Deceiver (1997) as Dr. Banyard |
| Fighting Words (2007) as Benny the Heckler |
| French Quarter Undercover (1986) as Det. Andre Des Moines |
| Hard Country (1981) as Royce |
| Julian Po (1997) as Vern |
| Love and the Midnight Auto Supply (1977) as Duke |
| Maidenhead (2008) as Dad |
| Miracle at Sage Creek (2005) as Justice Stanley |
| One Night with You (2006) as Hunter Burnell |
| Out of Control (1992) as Pearlmutter |
| Palominas (2011) as A.J. Whitney |
| Prime Suspect (1989) as Bill Nevins |
| Red State (2011) |
| Satisfaction (2009) as The Duel Master |
| Savannah Smiles (1982) as Lt. Savage |
| Sidewinder 1 (1977) as J.W. Wyatt |
| Sorceress (1995) as Stan Latarga |
| Spiker (1986) as Coach Doames |
| Steiner - Das eiserne Kreuz, 2. Teil (1979) as Sgt. Anderson |
| Storyville (1992) as Michael Trevallian |
| Street Poet (2010) as Benny |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) as Henry Craig |
| The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) as Adam |
| The Dead One (2007) as Sheriff Ezra Stone |
| The Evictors (1979) as Ben Watkins |
| The Happening (1967) as Sureshot |
| The Hitman (1991) as Ronny 'Del' Delaney |
| The Idol (1966) as Marco |
| The Last Horseman (2010) as Brother Ingram |
| The Needs of Kim Stanley (2005) |
| The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) as Robert F. Kennedy |
| The Return of Josey Wales (1986) as Josey Wales |
| Wicked (1998) as Detective Boland |
| Wild Seed (1965) as Fargo (1963) |
| The Return of Josey Wales (1986) |
Trivia
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* Lived on a Yacht in the Monterey, California harbor in the early 1980s. * The theme song "Long Lonesome Highway" from Parks' TV series "Then Came Bronson" (1969), sung by Parks' himself, was penned by James Hendricks, a Greenwich Village folky who was married to "Mama" Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas, not by Jimi Hendrix. The song became a Top 40 hit in 1970. * Picked fruit, dug ditches, drove trucks and fought forest fires. * Turned down an offer to play minor league baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates because he was making more money upholstering caskets. * Attempted to qualify for the 1972 Olympics as a miler, running a time of 4:06. * Recorded a half-dozen country/blues albums in the late sixties and early seventies and one "Cooling soup" in the late nineties. * He played Earl McGraw, the police officer with bad puns, in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and then played Esteban Vinaio, the 80-year-old, smooth Mexican pimp who once was Bill's mentor in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004). * The official Kill Bill websites claim that he is "frequently cited by longtime fan Quentin Tarantino as the world's greatest living actor.". * Was a close friend of legendary director Jean Renoir. * Father of actor James Parks . * He has played the character of Earl McGraw in three separate films involving Quentin Tarantino: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Grindhouse (2007) (both Death Proof (2007) and Planet Terror (2007)). * He was a pall bearer for Lenny Bruce. * Was discovered by Frank Silvera while acting in a play entitled "Compulsion" at age 18. * The pilot of the series "Then Came Bronson" (1969), reflects and was drawn heavily on the background of Park's own life story for his Felix character. * His brother Jimmy drowned in 1968. * Parks' second wife, a small-part actress named Jan Moriarty, took a fatal overdose of pills in 1964, less than two months after their marriage. * Was one of five children of an itinerant laborer. Like the rest of his family, Parks drifted from job to job in his early teens, briefly marrying at age 15. |
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