Biography of Michael Parksa

In order for the picture to have a real success, and the viewer has seized the magic of the screen, the efforts of many talented people are required, each of whom performs its own small job. And the hero of today's article is just one of the screws, not too noticeable, but forcing the mechanisms of masterpieces to move and work, simply contributing to the common cause.

Michael Parks is a man whose share almost did not fall out of the main roles, but knew how to make a supporting role bright and memorable. A simple worker about the past of Michael Parks and his life before the first work in the cinema is not known. He was born on April 24 in a small town of Crown, in sunny California. At birth, the boy called Harry, and the full name sounded like Harry Samuel Parks.

He was one of the five children in the family. There is no reliable information about his parents, but some conclusions can be drawn by simply looking at the list of works on which the young parks worked before his first roles. At different times, Harry managed to visit the fruit collector, driver, lumberjack, firefighters and even a digger. It was unlikely that the offspring of the rich or people close to bohemia could make up a similar track record, right?

But the origin and education did not prevent him from developing and showing his talents: in addition to roles in the cinema, Michael Parks is also known as a good musician who worked in the genres of country, blues and jazz, and his albums were sold well. On the horse, at sea and even in paradise, Michael Parks played his first role in the year. It is difficult to talk about her as a great success - it was only a relatively small episode in the series “Smoke from the Star”, which lasted on the screens of GO for a year.

There was nothing truly unique in this project, and to some extent it can be called very characteristic of the career of Parks. Starting with the “haze” and ending with the latest works, he often played people who were somehow connected with wide-brimmed hats, spurs, stars on his chest and other cowboy-farmer romance. In fairness, it is worth saying that even the appearance of a novice actor, memorable and textured, very strongly disposed to this.

The first work of Parks in a truly successful project is considered to be the role in the series “Perry Mason”, which many consider it the first role. This project costs somewhat apart in the actor's early filmography for the reason that he is somewhat more serious than most of his works of that period. In addition, it was the series about the unprincipling complex criminal cases to the lawyer that became the first springboard for the professional development of Michael Parks.

The novice actor was noticed, and he gained, albeit not so far too much, fame in the film, where the entrance to the entrance was practically ordered, receiving more and more roles. Until a year, however, these were exclusively series. In M, Fortuna turned to the park face: he got a role in a full -length picture. And, moreover, it was not a supporting role! We are talking about the film "Return of Bas Riley." This is a drama telling about a sailor who returns home and finds out that his beloved did not wait - in a word, a classic tape for those times about the choice between a poor young romantic and a rich unprincipled old man.

It is impossible to say that the picture enjoyed a frantic success, but it did not become a failure. Then followed the “Wild Seed”, “The Last Cool People”, “Capture in the North Sea” and even the “Bible”, where Parks played the role of Adam ... But first of all, the hero of today's article remained the actor of TV shows and television films that did not go to the cinema. By the way, it would probably be pleasant and curious to find out that he was noted in the cult once the series “Cool Walker”, after which the boys learned to beat with a foot from the U-turn “like Norris”.

However, if our hero was exclusively a star of western, dramas and detectives, he would hardly have hit the pages of Darker, right? The terrible Michael Parks and if we talk about the “dark” side of the Parks career, then it is worth starting, of course, from the series. And the first of them, both chronologically and in value, will be the “hour of Alfred Hitchcock”, which appeared on the air from a year to th.

There is hardly any point in telling about him - who has not heard about the legendary "hour"? Within the framework of this article, it is important as the first step, passed by the actor on the way to films that will bring him wide popularity ... although this will not happen soon. The next picture in the filmography of Parks, which can be reckoned without abysses to the brainchilds of dark cinema, was the “werewolf from Woodstock” of the year.

At that time, the term “trash” was not yet used as widely as it is now, but it is he who describes what is happening in this tape most accurately. The whole plot is, in fact, a large speculation on the bones of the famous Hippic festival. Snowman did not reach the cinemas, going straight to America’s television experience ... which is even good in this case. However, it would not be too fair to scold the “werewolf from Woodstock”.

In the end, Parks managed to work in a large number of television stones of various quality.There is also the almost forgotten “night groans” of Night CRies in his track record, and “Love and Magic 2: Sorceress”, the film is not too popular, but in certain circles a rather highly appreciated-in a word, nothing truly outstanding. The usual situation is for the executor of the second plan: Michael actually starred in any films, not particularly paying attention to their quality.

Fateful for the actor can be called the year when fate pushed him with David Lynch. And the most perspicacious, of course, already understood what kind of project we are talking about. Yes, Parks turned out to be among the lucky casting in one of the most discussed, mysterious and ambiguous series of modernity - Twin Peaks. In the dreams of Laura Palmer, he had a chance to portray Jean Renault, the eldest of the three brothers.

This, of course, is also not the biggest role, and perhaps not the most significant, even if there is insignificant roles in Twin Pixes - the question is controversial, but quite complicated and multifaceted. And the actor coped with her perfectly. Thus, we can say that David Lynch did the same for the hero of this article that Quentin Tarantino made for Sid Heig at one time, he breathed a new life into his career, opening access to projects of a completely different level.

And yes, a scandalous lover of bloody fun in the frame is not mentioned for a red word here. After all, he became further for the parks ... Well, continuing the analogy, let's say: he became a couple of Rob Zombie for a couple with Robert Rodriguez. In the bloody zenith in the year, Michael Parks appeared in Rodriguez’s film “From Sunset to Dawn”, which, I think, also does not need a separate detailed performance.

He got the role of Sheriff Earl McGrow, again not too big, but colorful and became memorable exclusively thanks to the skill of the performer. The Charisma of the Parks to so impressed Tarantino that he repeatedly invited the elderly actor to act, and twice in the image of the same sheriff. With McGrow, the viewer is found in two thrillers of Tarantino: “Kill Bill” and “Proof of Death”, which would be more accurate to translate as “Smervetsky” or “mortal”.

Rodriguez returned to the audience the harsh servant of the law, which had once beloved by the audience, who once gave rise to him, in a fan of “planet of fear”. Thus, the hero of the article took part in both parts of the Graindhouse project, and actually performing the same role. A rather fruitful cooperation came out with Tarantino at Parks: the actor starred in almost all his successful paintings, the last of which is “Dzhango freed”, a bloody story that again returned the parks to the cowboy theme.

It would probably be beautiful to finish the story with the phrase that in this way the circle was closed, but Kevin Smith, a real crime, would not mention the “tusk”. Perhaps few people would also have managed to reveal to the viewer of Howard Hou, a crazy lover of walruses. Despite the fact that this picture gave rise to a real storm of indignation at one time and received very, very controversial reviews, it can be considered one of the most memorable and bright in the quarry of Michael Parks.

So we can assume that lovers of dark cinema have a double occasion to honor the memory of the lyceum. Moreover, it is not difficult to do this: it is enough to revise your favorite picture with his participation and once again evaluate the huge talent of this person, clearly visible even in episodic roles.