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Gerard Parkes
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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 Corpor…
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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. This page is based on a Wikipedia article written by contributors. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
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2009
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Movie Doc
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2005
Fraggle Rock: Dance Your Cares Away
Movie Doc (as Gerry Parkes)
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2000
Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
Movie Bruno Mettler
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2000
Deeply
Movie Uncle Peat
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2000
A House Divided
Movie Judge Stevens
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2000
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
Movie Charles Kemble
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1999
Must Be Santa
Movie
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1999
Storm of the Century
TV show Orville Boucher
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1999
The Boondock Saints
Movie Doc
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1998
Noddy
TV show Wally the Wanderer
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1998
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
Movie Ferdinand Noble
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1998
Thunder Point
Movie Prime Minister
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1997
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
Movie Father Daniel (segment "Mamusha")
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1996
Mother Night
Movie Father Patrick Keeley
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1996
Handel's Last Chance
Movie Jonathan Swift
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1995
It Takes Two
Movie St. Bart's Priest
More credits
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1994
Small Gifts
Movie Priest
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1994
Trapped in Paradise
Movie Father Gorenzel
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1992
That Scatterbrain Booky
Movie
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1991
The Adjuster
Movie Tim
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1991
Money
Movie Henry Clay Adams
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1990
The Gunrunner
Movie
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1990
Common Ground
Movie Father Foley
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1990
Speaking Parts
Movie The Father
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1989
The Last Winter
Movie
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1988
War of the Worlds
TV show Dr. Emil Gestaine
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1988
Short Circuit 2
Movie Priest
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1987
A Muppet Family Christmas
Movie Doc
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1987
Fight for Life
Movie Father Robert Hunt
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1987
Heaven On Earth
Movie Reverend Laird
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1986
Fraggles Look For Jobs
Movie Himself
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1985
The Twilight Zone
TV show Monsignor Perrault
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1985
Fraggle Rock: Scared Silly
Movie Doc
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1985
The Suicide Murders
Movie Frank Bushmill
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1984
The Bells of Fraggle Rock
Movie Doc
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1984
Draw!
Movie Circuit Judge Fawcett
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1983
Spasms
Movie Captain Novack
- 1983
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1983
Fraggle Rock
TV show Doc
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1981
Cagney and Lacey: The Pilot
Movie Capt. Wells
