Michael Parks Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Michael Parks (born Harry Samuel Parks; April 24, 1940) is an American actor and singer. He has appeared in almost fifty films and has made frequent TV appearances, but is probably best known for his work in recent years with Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith as well as the 1969 television series Then Came Bronson.
Net Worth
$700,000
Date Of Birth
April 24, 1940
Place Of Birth
Corona, California, USA
Height
6' (1.83 m)
Occupation
Actor, singer
Profession
Actor, Soundtrack, Director
Nicknames
Michael Parks, Parks, Michael
Star Sign
Taurus
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Trademark
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Calm, gravelly voice
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Fact
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Filming a new movie Julian Po (1997) with Christian Slater and Robin Tunney.
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Plays the lead, an aging, misguided NSA listener in indie thriller In ascolto (2006).
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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 16.
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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.
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His brother Jimmy drowned in 1968.
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The pilot of the series Then Came Bronson (1969) reflects and drew heavily on the background of Parks' own life story.
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Was discovered by Frank Silvera while acting in a play entitled "Compulsion" at age 18.
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He was a pall bearer for Lenny Bruce.
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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)).
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Father of actor James Parks.
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Was a close friend of legendary director Jean Renoir.
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The official "Kill Bill" websites claim that he is "frequently cited by longtime fan Quentin Tarantino as the world's greatest living actor.".
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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). This makes him only one of two actors to appear in both Kill Bill films playing different characters. The other person to play separate roles in both films is Chia-Hui Liu.
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Recorded a half-dozen country/blues/jazz albums in the late '60s and early '70s.
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Attempted to qualify for the 1972 Olympics as a miler, running a time of 4:06.
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Turned down an offer to play minor league baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates because he was making more money upholstering caskets.
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Prior to becoming an actor. his jobs included picking fruit, digging ditches, driving trucks and fighting forest fires.
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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 folksinger 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.
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Lived on a yacht in the Monterey, California, harbor in the early 1980s.
