Gerard Parkes
Рождение : 1924-10-16, Dublin, Ireland
Смерть : 2014-10-19
История
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
Последние 8 лет братья жили вместе с отцом на ферме в глубинке Ирландии. Однажды их дядя рассказывает им о слухах, что они причастны к убийству католического священника Бостона. Парни возвращаются в Бостон, чтобы очистить свою испорченную репутацию, и найти людей, подставивших их.
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.
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American girl and more so in the stories of Celia, a crazy old local who weaves enchanting tales which cleverly combine her own experiences on the island with mystifying legends.
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
Чего только не бывает на свете! Два обычных ирландских парня, братья Коннор и Мерфи, преспокойно жили и работали в своем родном Бостоне, пока в один прекрасный день на них не снизошло озарение: сам Бог послал их на землю с особой миссией, наделив святой силой, чтобы очистить мир от зла. И братья взялись за дело со всей серьезностью, присущей ирландцам…
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
Экранизация романа Курта Воннегута 1962 года. В центре картины - судьба американца, который был шпионом союзников в нацистской Германии во время второй мировой войны. После войны его судили как нацистского преступника. Прошли годы, и теперь он пытается доказать свою невиновность всему миру и самому себе.
St. Bart's Priest
Живут на свете две удивительно похожие друг на друга девочки: болтушка и непоседа Аманда и тихая, спокойная Элисса. Они не сестрички. Их похожесть — ирония судьбы. Одна растет в сиротском приюте под опекой доброй воспитательницы Дианы, а другая — с очень богатым отцом-одиночкой. Папу хочет женить на себе противная и корыстолюбивая особа. Но к счастью, две девочки встречаются в летнем лагере и принимают решение предотвратить намечающийся брак по расчету, а заодно и влюбить папу в хорошую воспитательницу Диану. Для осуществления своих планов девочки на время меняются местами…
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
Маленький провинциальный городок под названием «Рай», канун Рождества. Бил Фирпо, человек честный, приезжает сюда по делу с двумя только что вышедшими из тюрьмы братьями — хитрецом Дэйвом и клептоманом Элвином. Когда братья решают ограбить местный банк, Билу не удается их отговорить. К тому же дело на редкость простое и «верное«: в здании отсутствует охрана и сигнализация. И, как ни странно, затея удается. Но сразу же возникает проблема посерьезней: как выбраться из маленького городка с большой добычей, если полиция уже поднята на ноги?
Tim
Ноа работает страховым оценщиком. Он женат, но довольно развратен. Ноа встречается со своими клиентками, потерявшими своё имущество в результате пожара или другого бедствия, и пользуясь своим положением склоняет их к сексу.
Жена Ноа Эра тоже не подарочек. Она киноцензор, живёт вместе со своим сыном Симоном и сестрой Сетой. В свободное от работы время Эра тайно снимает порнографические фильмы. Потребитель этих фильмов — довольно страстная Сета.
Ноа и Эра сдают свой дом одной семейной паре — Буббе и Мими. С их участием и снимает свой новый фильм для взрослых Эра. Парочка же пытается во время съёмок реализовать свои сексуальные фантазии, иногда с использованием насилия.
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
Бен Джарви, по происхождению индиец, а по профессии — изобретатель-конструктор роботов, вынужден работать уличным торговцем. В первом фильме его отстранили от работы после инцидента с созданным им роботом Номер пять. Теперь Бен оказался на мели, он вынужден жить в фургончике и делать игрушечных роботов для продажи на улице. Эти роботы все, как один, похожи на Номера пять, но только дизайном….. Номер пять обрел личность благодаря короткому замыканию, а эти малыши — всего лишь бездушные игрушки.
Doc
Когда Фоззи и вся команда Маппет Шоу неожиданно сваливаются на голову матери Фоззи, она вынуждена отменить свои планы на зимние каникулы и развлекать их всех. Вскоре приходит и команда Улицы Сезам - колядовать. Затем, Кермит и его племянник Робин в подвале обнаруживают проход в Скалу Фрэгглов. Снежная метель загнала всех в дом, кроме Мисс Пигги, которая прибывает как раз вовремя, что-бы успеть отпраздновать Рождество всем вместе.
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.
Детектив полиции Монреаля Джим Хендерсон расследует странную смерть проститутки-наркоманки Элизабет, упавшей с балкона высотного дома. Вскоре Хендерсон приходит к выводу, что смерть была не несчастным случаем, а Элизабет столкнули вниз. Мало того, Элизабет была членом общества сатанистов, исповедующего кровавые культовые ритуалы…
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.
