Gerard Parkes
Nacimiento : 1924-10-16, Dublin, Ireland
Muerte : 2014-10-19
Historia
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 diverse series as the 1960s' ecological adventure series The Forest Rangers, children's show The Littlest Hobo, and the detective series Cagney and Lacey. In 1968, Parkes won the first Canadian film award (then called the Etrog and now known as the Gemini) for his portrayal of Uncle Matthew in the movie Isabel. He received the Andrew Allan Award in 1983 for Best Radio Actor, and in 1999, he won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance in a Featured Role for Kilt. In 1996, he portrayed Jonathan Swift in the HBO Original Film Handel's Last Chance. In 1998, he appeared on an episode of PBS's Noddy, as Wally the Wanderer in "Noah's Leaving". He appeared with Willem Dafoe and Billy Connolly in The Boondock Saints (playing a Tourette's syndrome-afflicted bartender, also named "Doc"). He reprised the role for The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day.
He appeared in The Adjuster (1991), premiering at the New York Film Festival. In 1991, it won the Special Silver St. George at the 17th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1993, the Toronto International Film Festival ranked the film 10th in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time.
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Doc
Los hermanos MacManus viven escondidos junto a su padre, Il Duce, en los tranquilos valles de Irlanda, alejados de su antigua vida como vigilantes. Un día se enteran del asesinato de un amigo sacerdote católico a manos de la mafia en Boston. Los dos hermanos regresarán entonces para hacerle justicia.
Bruno Mettler
A sensitive and realistic portrayal of the families' grief after the devastating crash of Swissair flight 111, in which all 229 passengers and crew were killed. A woman whose daughter was among the victims meets a fisherman in Nova Scotia who took part in the recovery mission.
Los terribles recuerdos de un accidente traumático obligan a Claire a escapar a una isla remota de donde proceden sus antepasados. La que había sido una importante comunidad pesquera es ahora un árido, solitario y melancólico lugar que no hace más que aumentar la tristeza que Claire lleva dentro. Pero todo cambia el día que se encuentra con Celia, una excéntrica escritora que la introduce en su última novela... una historia todavía inacabada, con la que Claire se siente muy identificada y que tendrá el poder de cicatrizar las heridas de su alma. (FILMAFFINITY)
Judge Stevens
In the aftermath of the terrible Civil War which has devastated the South, Amanda America Dixon returns home to find she has become the sole heir to a vast cotton plantation. But the dreadful secret which has blighted her life threatens to deprive her of the birthright which her beloved father David had struggled for so long to create. Raised by her father and grandmother to be the perfect white Southern Belle, Amanda's true mother was a black slave Julia. Confronted with the forces of greed and bigotry, Amanda has to face not only the hatred of a racist world, but the complex truth of a family whose lives have been built on a lie.
Charles Kemble
Georgia, alrededores de 1846. Fanny Kremble, una actriz inglesa, se enamora del propietario de una plantación sureña. Aunque su amiga le avisa del tipo de hombre que puede llegar a ser, ella piensa que el amor lo puede todo y se casa.
When the reigning Santa is no longer fit for duty his helpers must search for a replacement. This leads to a wacky, exhausting hunt and doesn't turn up exactly what Santa's angels hoped for. To make matters worse still, "Santy" winds up being just this side of totally undesirable.
Doc
En Boston, los hermanos irlandeses Connor y Murphy McManus, se convierten, de repente, en los "santos" de un barrio, tras matar a unos mafiosos rusos. Deciden entonces eliminar a toda la escoria de la ciudad, pues creen que Dios los ha elegido para erradicar el mal de la Tierra. La policía y, especialmente un agente homosexual del FBI, les siguen la pista, aunque éste reconoce que lo que están haciendo es lo que él siempre ha deseado. Por su lucha en favor de la Verdad ("Veritas") y la justicia ("Aequitas"), los Santos cuentan con la simpatía de los ciudadanos.
Father Daniel (segment "Mamusha")
First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of two short films, "Mamusha," as the Nazis invade her country, a Polish Catholic housekeeper takes under her wing the youngster in the Jewish family for whom she is employed, and shepherds him through WWII in hopes of ultimately getting him repatriated to Palestine. In "Woman on a Bicycle," an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the church to distribute underground communication pamphlets for the Resistance and ultimately ends up helping the church shelter 19 Jews.
Father Patrick Keeley
An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real role in the war.
St. Bart's Priest
Alysa es una niña que viaja hasta la residencia de campo de su millonario padre para pasar allí las vacaciones. Justo al lado de la casa, su fallecida madre construyó un campamento de verano para niños huérfanos. Allí conoce a Amanda, una simpática niña con la que iniciará una bonita amistad. Cuando el padre de Alysa anuncia su compromiso con una mujer repulsiva y maniática, las dos niñas decidirán tender una trampa para que el padre de Alysa se enamore de la asistente social de Amanda.
Priest
Nora and Evan are a young married couple who find their finances are in serious trouble as Christmas draws near in this new take on O. Henry's classic story ""The Gift of the Magi.""
Father Gorenzel
Dos hermanos recién salidos de la cárcel se reúnen con un colega y se dirigen a Paradise, en Pennsylvania, para atracar un banco. Allí se encuentran con las personas más amables y amigables que jamás hayan conocido, pero esto puede suponer un obstáculo para sus planes.
Tim
Una pareja de tendencias voyeurísticas (Maury Chaykin & Gabrielle Rose), un tasador de seguros (Elias Koteas) obsesionado con solucionar la vida a sus clientes, y una censora de películas pronográficas (Arsinee Khanjian), se convierten en sujetos cinematográficos por el capricho sexual de sus vecinos.
Father Foley
Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970's because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focuses on an African-American mother determined to get her children a quality education and a white lawyer trying to deal with inner city problems.
Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.
The Father
En "Guiones cambiados" un actor secundario llamado Lance (McManus) trabaja como guardián de un hotel, siendo su verdadero trabajo el de gigoló. Una colega está obsesionada con él, pero Lance la ignora y evita. Deja su curriculum vitae actoral en el cuarto de una guionista, que está realizando audiciones para un telefilme basado en la historia verdadera de su fallecido hermano. Lo escoge para que interprete el papel protagónico y los dos comienzan un romance. Ella se muestra cada vez más angustiada, pues es claro que el productor está cambiando su historia.
Priest
El robot Número Cinco, más conocido como Johnny Cinco, sale muy animado en busca de un poco de "input urbano", pero unos pandilleros, un banquero codicioso y una banda de rateros ven en su ingenuidad un billete de alta tecnología hacia una vida resuelta.
Doc
Especial de navidad de Los Teleñecos, que reune además a otros personajes creados por Jim Henson entre ellos varios de Barrio Sésamo.
Father Robert Hunt
Jerry Lewis interpreta a un optometrista de Ohio que tiene una hija de seis años con epilepsia. Él lucha para que la FDA apruebe un medicamento (en ese momento solo disponible en Inglaterra) para su uso en los EE. UU.
Reverend Laird
An armful of destitute orphans transported to the New World at the turn of the century. This is the turbulent and moving story of four British 'bricks for Empire building' - based on the memoirs of some of the 100,000 'home children' who helped build the new Canada.
Himself
Fraggle Rock wrap video taped in 1986, and screened May 16, 1986.
Frank Bushmill
The apparent suicide of a politician he was hired to follow drags private detective Benny Cooperman into a whirlwind of hard boiled double crosses and psychotherapy whose roots lie in a decades-old unsolved murder.
Doc
Gobo thinks the Fraggles' own Solstice holiday, the Festival of the Bells, is a big waste of time. Despite Cantus' warnings, Gobo goes on a journey to find out if the mythical Great Bell at the heart of Fraggle Rock is real. When the Rock slows down in the winter, the Fraggles hold the Festival of the Bells to make sure it keeps moving. As part of the celebration, they ring bells to awaken the Great Bell at the heart of the Rock. They also dress up as a Weebabeast, who used to guard the Great Bell when the Rock was small. Meanwhile, Doc and Sprocket explore mid-winter holiday traditions from around the world.
Capt. Novack
Los tambores puntuan la noche de Naraka Pintu, la minúscula isla del Pacífico,y unos salvajes grotescamente pintados aullan frenéticamente. El chamán se contorsiona y grita mientras reta a N´Gana Simbu, el Guardián de las puertas del infierno a que haga su aparición. Un cazador extranjero, Tasaki, se mofa del espectáculo, pero aguarda tenso en las sombras, entre las brillantes hogueras de la tribu. Un agudísimo sonido taladra la noche y la Serpiente Demonio surge de las llamas de la hoguera entre el fogonazo de una explosión. Con una furia letal e incontrolable, la extraordinaria serpiente arremete contra los nativos provocando la destrucción y la muerte.
Professor Saunders
A young American hockey player, studying in Canada on a hockey scholarship, falls in love while risking his scholarship and the prospect of the Vietnam war draft.
Jessup
En la época de la Depresión en Nueva Inglaterra, un miserable empresario llamado Benedict Slade recibe un ajuste de actitud largamente esperado una víspera de Navidad cuando es visitado por tres figuras fantasmales que se parecen a tres de las personas cuyas posesiones Slade había confiscado para cobrar los préstamos no pagados. Asumiendo los roles de los Fantasmas de Navidad Pasado, Presente y Futuro de la historia clásica de Charles Dickens, las tres apariciones obligan a Slade a enfrentar las consecuencias de sus maneras de derramar piel, y se convierte en un hombre cariñoso, generoso y amable.
Packard
A successful executive and family man takes up jogging for a hobby. Soon his desire to excel as a long distance runner interferes with his career and marriage.
En un edificio habitado por varias prostitutas, una de ellas muere asesinada. El procedimiento se reitera y hay otras muertes. Entretanto, los investigadores llegan a la conclusión de que una víctima profesa la religión católica. Uno de los clientes, indaga a una prostituta, preguntándole si pertenece a esa religión y podría existir la presencia de satanismo....con suspenso, buena música compuesta por la protagonista -Karen Black- se despliega la película que tiene un cierto decaimiento hacia la hora de irradiación aproximadamente sin que surjan acontecimientos demasiado sustanciales pero con una resolución interesante e inesperada que levanta el film.
Professor
In Montréal, Jean-Pierre is fired on the set of a TV commercial where he's an apprentice technician. He's penniless, behind on his rent, with a thin resume and no college units. He has a fiancée, Michelle, but his head is turned by a free-spirited model, from the U.S., who saw him being fired and comes to his flat to apologize. She's Elizabeth, a combination of feckless innocence and sexual freedom. Jean-Pierre borrows money from his outlaw friend, Dock, and buys clothes to impress Elizabeth. Soon he's sleeping with her, and he pulls a theft with Dock to get money to take her to Acapulco. Michelle tries to bring him back to her orbit. Is there a way out for Jean-Pierre?
Charles
Un grupo de jóvenes viajan desde Canadá a los Estados Unidos en busca de aventuras,pero su principal objetivo es perder la virginidad.
Appie
A 23-year-old Canadian wanders aimlessly throughout his wasted life.
Uncle Matthew
A woman believes she is beginning to lose her mind when she begins seeing ghosts and spirits.
