Michael Parks
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| Known for: |
Kill Bill: Vol. 2, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, From Dusk Till Dawn |
| Birth name: |
Harry Parks Jr. |
| Birthday: |
24 April 1940,
Corona, California, USA |
| Height: |
6' (1.83 m) |
Trivia

Lived on a Yacht in the Monterey, California harbor in the early 1980s

The theme song "Long Lonesome Highway" from Parks' TV series "Then came Bronson" was penned by James Hendricks, a Greenwich Village folky who was married to "Mama" Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas, not by Jimi Hendrix.

Picked fruit, dug ditches, drove trucks and fought forest fires.

Turned down an offer to play minor league baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates because he was making more money upholstering caskets.

Attempted to qualify for the 1972 Olympics as a miler, running a time of 4:06.

Recorded a half-dozen country albums in the late sixties and early seventies.

He played Earl McGraw, the police officer with bad puns, in "Kill Bill, Volume 1" and then played Esteban Vinaio, the 80-year-old, smooth Mexican pimp who once was Bill's mentor in "Vol. 2."

The official Kill Bill websites claim that he is "frequently cited by longtime fan Quentin Tarantino as the world's greatest living actor".

Was a close friend of legendary director Jean Renoir.

Father of actor James Parks.

He has played a character named Earl McGraw in three separate films involving Quentin Tarantino: From Dusk Til Dawn, Grindhouse, Kill Bill Volume 1.
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