Name
Gerard Parkes
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1924-10-16
Deathday
2014-10-19 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Dublin, Ireland
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 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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- 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
- 2005 Fraggle Rock: Dance Your Cares Away as Doc (as Gerry Parkes)
- 1983 Fraggle Rock: Live by the Rule of the Rock as Doc
- 1987 Fight for Life as Father Robert Hunt
- 1990 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
- 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
- 1980 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
- 1986 Fraggles Look For Jobs as Himself
- 1985 The Suicide Murders as Frank Bushmill
- 1992 That Scatterbrain Booky
- 1990 The Gunrunner
- 1998 Thunder Point as Prime Minister
- 1998 Thanks of a Grateful Nation as Ferdinand Noble
- 1991 Money as Henry Clay Adams
- 1981 Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot as Capt. Wells
- 1985 Fraggle Rock: Scared Silly as Doc
- 1996 Handel's Last Chance as Jonathan Swift
- 1975 Freedom of the City as Priest
- 1974 The National Dream ( 7 episodes ) as Edward Blake
- 1988 War of the Worlds ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Emil Gestaine
- 1985 The Twilight Zone ( 1 episode ) as Monsignor Perrault
- 1983 Fraggle Rock ( 96 episodes ) as Doc
- 1999 Storm of the Century ( 2 episodes ) as Orville Boucher
- 1998 Noddy ( 1 episode ) as Wally the Wanderer
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Guvariov
- 1976 Teleplay ( 1 episode )
