{"id":40446,"date":"2017-05-10T16:03:44","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=40446"},"modified":"2017-05-10T16:03:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T20:03:44","slug":"michael-parks-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/10\/michael-parks-77\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Parks, 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-40448\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Michael-Parks-tusk-678x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Michael-Parks-tusk-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Michael-Parks-tusk-339x226.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/>The character actor Michael Parks, whose career spanned film, television and music, died yesterday. Cause of death is not known at this time. He was 77.<\/p>\n<p>Parks got his start in television, playing bit parts in shows like <strong>The Untouchables<\/strong>, <strong>The Real McCoys<\/strong>, <strong>Gunsmoke <\/strong>, <strong>Route 66, 77 Sunset Strip<\/strong>, <strong>Perry Mason <\/strong>and <strong>Ben Casey<\/strong>. His career in film started shortly after with 1965&#8217;s <strong>Wild Seed <\/strong>and <strong>Bus Reilly&#8217;s Back In Town<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1969, Parks was cast in the lead of <strong>Then Came Bronson<\/strong>, a NBC\u00a0television about a disillusioned journalist travelling America via motorcycle in order to find himself. The show ran for 27 episodes from 1969 to 1970, and Parks sang the theme song, which became a hit on the Billboard charts, leading to a musical career for the actor. He would record five albums between 1969 and 1981.<\/p>\n<p>By the late 1980&#8217;s Parks acting career had come to him appearing in B-movies like 1989&#8217;s <strong>Nightmare Beach <\/strong>and <strong>Caged Fury<\/strong> and in recurring roles on <strong>The Colbys <\/strong>and <strong>Twin Peaks<\/strong>. However, Parks had a number of fans in Hollywood who would help his film career\u00a0undergo a\u00a0resurgence.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Rodriguez would cast him in the Quentin Tarantino scripted <strong>From Dusk till Dawn <\/strong>as Texas Ranger Earl McGraw. Parks would reprise the character four more times for Rodriguez and\/or Tarantino in <strong>Kill Bill: Vol\u00a01<\/strong>, <strong>Kill Bill: Vol 2<\/strong>, and in both installments of <strong>Grindhouse<\/strong>&#8212;<strong>Planet Terror <\/strong>and <strong>Death Proof<\/strong>. Tarantino would also cast him as a separate character in <strong>Kill Bill 2<\/strong> and as a mining company employee in <strong>Django Unchained<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A heartfelt farewell to the one and only Michael Parks. A very kind man and a true legend. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OsKTfZFiS2\">pic.twitter.com\/OsKTfZFiS2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Robert Rodriguez (@Rodriguez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rodriguez\/status\/862353996488482816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This led to Parks appearing in a better quality of film, including <strong>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford<\/strong> and <strong>Argo<\/strong>, where he played legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby in a brief role.<\/p>\n<p>It also led him to a partnership with Kevin Smith, appearing as the villain in the writer\/director&#8217;s films <strong>Red State <\/strong>and <strong>Tusk<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BT6pvD2AONY\/<\/p>\n<p>Parks has five productions pending on IMDB, two of which are listed as complete or in post-production.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The legendary B-movie actor Michael Parks, favorite of Rodriguez, Tarantino and Smith, has passed away. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/10\/michael-parks-77\/\" title=\"Michael Parks, 77\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":40447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,133],"tags":[9037,3472,9038,9040,9043,1947,3697,8594,451,4785,50,6542,5398,3000,9042,59,4855,2918,211,814,1107,9036,8848,9044,9035,1773,9041,6566,2714,9039],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40446","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-obituary-news","9":"tag-77-sunset-strip","10":"tag-argo","11":"tag-ben-casey","12":"tag-bus-reillys-back-in-town","13":"tag-caged-fury","14":"tag-death-proof","15":"tag-django-unchained","16":"tag-from-dusk-till-dawn","17":"tag-grindhouse","18":"tag-gunsmoke","19":"tag-kevin-smith","20":"tag-kill-bill-vol-1","21":"tag-kill-bill-vol-2","22":"tag-michael-parks","23":"tag-nightmare-beach","24":"tag-obituary","25":"tag-perry-mason","26":"tag-planet-terror","27":"tag-quentin-tarantino","28":"tag-red-state","29":"tag-robert-rodriguez","30":"tag-route-66","31":"tag-the-assassination-of-jesse-james-by-the-coward-robert-ford","32":"tag-the-colbys","33":"tag-the-real-mccoys","34":"tag-the-untouchables","35":"tag-then-came-bronson","36":"tag-tusk","37":"tag-twin-peaks","38":"tag-wild-seed"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40446"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=40446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}