Gerard Parkes
Nascimento : 1924-10-16, Dublin, Ireland
Morte : 2014-10-19
História
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
De Troy Duffy, escritor e diretor de Santos Justiceiros, chega a aguardada continuação da violenta saga dos irmãos MacManus (Norman Reedus, Sean Patrick Flanery). Os dois estiveram escondidos com o pai, II Duce (Billy Connolly), nos tranquilos vales da Irlanda, longe das suas vidas anteriores de vigilantes. Quando um amado padre é morto no submundo do crime organizado, os irmãos retornam a Boston para montar uma sangrenta e violenta cruzada em busca de justiça. Com um novo parceiro e uma sexy técnica do FBI em seu encalço… Os Saints estão de volta!
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.
Claire McKay (Julia Brendler) é uma adolescente traumatizada que é levada para a ilha de seus ancestrais, na esperança dela se recuperar da súbita morte do seu primeiro amor. Claire encontra uma excêntrica escritora, Celia (Lynn Redgrave), que lhe conta a história de outra adolescente, Silly (Kirsten Dunst), e a maldição que assombrou a ilha desde a época dos vikings. Claire reconta a história de Silly e sua grande perda, uma história que ainda não terminou. Claire então revive seu trauma e procura um final feliz para sua história.
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
Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butler. Moving with him from Philadelphia to his Georgia plantation, Fanny sees slavery firsthand, and her outrage leads her to help the family's slaves in open defiance of her spouse. Undaunted by the consequences, Fanny eventually writes a book that strengthens the anti-slavery movement.
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
Os irmãos MacManus, dois jovens católicos, acreditam que Deus lhes confiou a missão de acabar com a Máfia Russa. Eles perseguem e massacram violentamente os membros do bando e, em vez de irem presos, acabam sendo considerados santos.
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
Howard W. Campbell Jr. (Nick Nolte) é um dramaturgo americano que já vivia na Alemanha antes de começar a 2ª Guerra Mundial. Ele é essencialmente apolítico, apesar de algumas vezes ter estado com alguns líderes nazistas, já que por serem VIPs nesta época e pertencerem ao mesmo círculo social. Mas na verdade Campbell só se preocupa com seus textos e sua amada Helga (Sheryl Lee). Um dia Frank Wirtenan (John Goodman), um agente da inteligência americana, se aproxima de Campbell e lhe oferece uma tarefa incomum: ele se faria passar por um comentarista de rádio que aparentemente era um ferveroso nazista, mas na realidade estava passando informações codificadas que ajudariam no esforço de guerra americano. Após inicialmente relutar, Campbell concorda. Ele desempenha tão bem sua função que, quando a guerra termina, ele descobre que é impossível convencer as pessoas que ele não era realmente um nazista.
St. Bart's Priest
Amanda é órfã e seu desejo é ser adotada pela divertida assistente social, Diana, antes que uma família de exploradores de crianças o faça. Alyssa leva uma vida de princesa, mas seu pai, o milionário Roger Callaway, está prestes a casar com uma verdadeira bruxa. O que estas duas garotas têm em comum? Elas são idênticas e se encontram a tempo de bolar um plano infalível para unir Diana e Roger e conseguir a família perfeita. Mas preparem-se porque elas vão colocar a casa abaixo, afinal, duas cabeças pensam melhor que uma!
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
Três irmãos trapalhões planejam um crime contra um banco na pequena cidade de Paraíso. O golpe, em si, é fácil, mas o difícil mesmo é sair do local, que sofre uma tempestade de neve. Para completar, eles terão, ainda, que resistir à ingenuidade dos habitantes da cidade, que os tratam com muita simpatia e generosidade.
Tim
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
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
A struggling actor's job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job: being rented out as a gigolo by his supervisor. A co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resume in the hotel room of a screenwriter, who is casting for a TV movie based on the true story of her deceased brother. She hires him to play the lead and the two begin an affair.
Priest
"Número 5", também chamado "Johnny 5", o incrível e adorável robô em curto circuito, está de volta nesta acelerada comédia de ação que vai deixar a cidade de cabeça para baixo. O curioso Johnny 5 sai para um reconhecimento da cidade, mas alguns vadios de rua, um banqueiro ganancioso e uma gangue de pilantras percebem sua inocência e vêem sua passagem de alta tecnologia para faturar. Será que Johnny 5 vai sobreviver à grande cidade e esses escroques? Fique conectado neste filme de alta voltagem para saber a resposta.
Doc
Fozzie Bear surprises his mother on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the Muppets in their holiday activities and preparations. The Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock regulars join the festivities, but to Kermit's dismay, the only one missing is Miss Piggy, who has been caught in a snowstorm.
Father Robert Hunt
Jerry Lewis plays an Ohio optometrist who has a six-year old daughter with epilepsy. He fights to get the FDA to approve a drug (at that time only available in England) for use in the U.S.
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
A gigantic serpent is captured on a remote island and shipped to an American college for experimentation.
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
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
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.
A detective investigating the death of a heroin-addicted prostitute uncovers evidence pointing to the existence of a murderous devil cult.
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
With the coming of summer, three high school buddies--Kenny Leeds, Mike Decker, and Tommy Kingsley--anticipate their initiation into the pleasures of manhood. But Kenny is separated from his friends and sent to stay with his grandparents in Buffalo while his father, a widowed salesman, leaves on a business trip with his secretary-fiancée. Bored and alone in a strange city, Kenny writes his two friends letters about his adventures at "Rosie's," a fictitious brothel across the Canadian border in Niagara Falls. His lie quickly backfires.
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.
