Gerard Parkes
Birthday
1924/10/16
Day of death
2014/10/19 (90 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
Also know as
Gerard Thomas Parkes, Gerry Parkes, Gerard Parks
Biography
Gerard "Gerry" Parkes was an Irish-born Canadian actor. He was born in Dublin, and moved to Toronto in 1956. He is best known for playing "Doc" on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television series Fraggle Rock and the bartender in the film The Boondock Saints and its sequel The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day. His acting career spanned film, radio, television, and the stage. Parkes worked often on CBC radio, beginning in 1959, and shifted into television and film, acting in such divers...Read more
Acting
(1994) Small Gifts
as Priest
(2009) The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
as Doc
(1995) It Takes Two
as St. Bart's Priest
(1984) Draw!
as Circuit Judge Fawcett
(1964) David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker
as Duncan McGillivray
(1994) Trapped in Paradise
as Father Gorenzel
(2000) Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
as Charles Kemble
(1974) Running Time
as The Old Lady's Son
(1973) The Pyx
as ---
(2005) Fraggle Rock - Dance Your Cares Away
as Doc (as Gerry Parkes)
(2005) Fraggle Rock - Live by the Rule of the Rock
as Doc
(1987) Fight for Life
as Father Robert Hunt
(1989) Speaking Parts
as The Father
(1988) Short Circuit 2
as Priest
(1990) Common Ground
as Father Foley
(1996) Mother Night
as Father Patrick Keeley
(1997) Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
as Father Daniel (segment "Mamusha")
(1979) An American Christmas Carol
as Jessup
(1983) Spasms
as Captain Novack
(1968) A Great Big Thing
as Appie
(1987) Heaven On Earth
as Reverend Laird
(1989) The Last Winter
as ---
(1987) A Muppet Family Christmas
as Doc
(1991) The Adjuster
as Tim
(1976) Second Wind
as Packard
(2000) A House Divided
as Judge Stevens
(1977) Bethune
as Dr. MacCacken
(1968) Isabel
as Uncle Matthew
(1971) The Apprentice
as Professor
(1969) The First Time
as Charles
(1981) Yesterday
as Professor Saunders
(1984) The Bells of Fraggle Rock
as Doc
(2000) Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
as Bruno Mettler
(1999) The Boondock Saints
as Doc
(2000) Deeply
as Uncle Peat
(1999) Must Be Santa
as ---
(1986) Fraggles Look For Jobs
as Himself
(1985) The Suicide Murders
as Frank Bushmill
(1992) That Scatterbrain Booky
as ---
(1990) The Gunrunner
as ---
(1974) The National Dream
as Edward Blake
(1988) War of the Worlds
as Dr. Emil Gestaine
(1985) The Twilight Zone
as Monsignor Perrault
(1983) Fraggle Rock
as Doc
(1999) Storm of the Century
as Orville Boucher
(1998) Noddy
as Wally the Wanderer
(1982) Cagney & Lacey
as Captain Wells