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Accomplished Hollywood character actor Michael Parks, best known today for roles in Kill Bill<\/em> and Red State<\/em>, has passed away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Parks’ early career was developed in television, appearing in a number of shows including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Ashphalt Jungle,<\/em> and Gunsmoke<\/em>, as well as The Real McCoys<\/em>. A constant on American television throughout the 60’s and 70’s, Mr Parks’ film career began with a lead role in Wild Seed,<\/em> a 1965 film directed by Brian Hutton and co-starring up-and-coming TV actress Celia Kaye.<\/p>\n Parks’ film career continued with projects such as The Bible: In The Beginning<\/em> (playing Adam), motorcross themed Sidewinder 1<\/em>, and Texan drama Hard Country,<\/em> before appearing as Joesy Wales in the sequel to Clint Eastwood’s epochal Western, The Return of Josey Wales<\/em>, in 1986. Robert Rodriguez cast Parks in his seminal vampire gore-fest From Dusk Til Dawn<\/em> (co-starring George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino and Salma Hayek), as Sheriff Earl McGraw, a character he’d reprise throughout Rodriguez and Tarantino’s careers in both Kill<\/a> Bill<\/a><\/em>, the Grindhouse<\/em><\/a> films, and as a short-lived mining employee at the back end of Django Unchained<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n Michael Parks’ most iconic modern role, and certainly one of his most high profile, was as the central antagonist of Kevin Smith’s Red State<\/em><\/a>, as Pastor Albin Cooper as the leader of a Baptist Church with overtones of the Westboro cult, and snagged Parks plaudits in the role from multiple critical circles.<\/p>\n Among his other more recent films, he appeared in Argo<\/a>, Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball<\/a><\/em>, Tusk<\/em> and Mel Gibson’s Blood Father<\/em><\/a>. His final film, Hostiles<\/em>, is due for release later this year.<\/p>\n Michael Parks passed away on May 9th, aged 77.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Accomplished Hollywood character actor Michael Parks, best known today for roles in Kill Bill and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":46158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",1137,626,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk-300x165.jpg",300,165,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk-768x423.jpg",640,353,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk-720x396.jpg",640,352,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",1137,626,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",1137,626,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",1024,564,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",540,297,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",24,13,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",48,26,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",96,53,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",150,83,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk.jpg",300,165,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-tusk-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/michael-parks-578x423.jpg\")