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Lived on a Yacht in the Monterey, California harbor in the early 1980s. Picked fruit, dug ditches, drove trucks and fought forest fires. Attempted to qualify for the 1972 Olympics as a miler, running a time of 4:06. He played Earl McGraw, the police officer with bad puns, in Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and then played Esteban Vinaio, the 80-year-old, smooth Mexican pimp who once was Bill's mentor in Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004). Was a close friend of legendary director Jean Renoir. He has played the character of Earl McGraw in three separate films involving Quentin Tarantino: From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003) and Grindhouse (2007) (both Death Proof (2007) and Planet Terror (2007)). Was discovered by Frank Silvera while acting in a play entitled "Compulsion" at age 18. His brother Jimmy drowned in 1968. Was one of five children of an itinerant laborer. Like the rest of his family, Parks drifted from job to job in his early teens, briefly marrying at age 15.