{"id":101972,"date":"2017-05-11T02:28:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T06:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=101972"},"modified":"2017-05-11T02:29:44","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T06:29:44","slug":"kill-bill-and-twin-peaks-actor-michael-parks-dies-at-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/05\/11\/kill-bill-and-twin-peaks-actor-michael-parks-dies-at-77\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Kill Bill’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ actor Michael Parks dies at 77"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Michael Parks, a prolific character actor and a favourite of directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has died. He was 77. (Photo: Garret Dillahunt\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NEW YORK \u2014 Michael Parks, a prolific character actor and a favourite of directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has died. He was 77.<\/p>\n

Parks’ agent, Jane Schulman, says the actor died Tuesday in Los Angeles. No cause of death was announced.<\/p>\n

In a career that spanned five decades, Parks acted in more than 100 films and TV shows, including \u201cTwin Peaks.\u201d Many of his early starring roles were countercultural 1960s films, including \u201cWild Seed\u201d and \u201cBus Riley’s Back in Town,\u201d alongside Ann-Margret. He starred as a disillusioned, motorcycle-riding newsman in the 1969 series \u201cThen Came Bronson.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parks’ career enjoyed a rebirth thanks to the interest of Tarantino, Smith and Robert Rodriguez. He had memorable parts in Tarantino’s \u201cKill Bill\u201d films, Rodriguez’s \u201cFrom Dusk till Dawn\u201d and Smith’s \u201cTusk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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