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Gerard Parkes is a Actor born on 16 october 1924 at Dublin (Irlande)
Gerard "Gerry" Parkes (October 16, 1924 – October 19, 2014) was an Irish-born Canadian actor who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and moved to Toronto in 1956.
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Birth name Gerard Thomas Parkes
Birth 16 october 1924 at Dublin (Irlande)
Death 19 october 2014 (at 90 years)
Birth 16 october 1924 at Dublin (Irlande)
Death 19 october 2014 (at 90 years)
Gerard "Gerry" Parkes (October 16, 1924 – October 19, 2014) was an Irish-born Canadian actor who was born in Dublin, Ireland, and moved to Toronto in 1956.
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, 1h58Directed by Troy Duffy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Films about religion, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Clifton Collins, Jr., Julie Benz, Billy Connolly, Judd Nelson
Roles Doc
Rating61%
After the McManus brothers, Connor and Murphy (Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus), and their father, Noah (a.k.a. "Il Duce") (Billy Connolly), assassinated Joe Yakavetta, they fled to Ireland. Eight years later, their uncle Sibeal (Mairtin O'Carrigan), a priest, arrives to inform them that a renowned Boston priest was murdered by a mysterious assassin who attempted to frame the Saints by using their ritual assassination style. In response, the brothers dig up their old gear and weapons and depart for the United States.
, 1h55Directed by James Keach
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jane Seymour, Keith Carradine, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Janet-Laine Green, James Keach, Colin Fox
Roles Charles Kemble
Rating63%
Set in the nineteenth-century, the film depicts the real-life story of British actress and abolitionist Fanny Kemble. When Kemble leaves her successful acting career to marry American lawyer and slave owner Pierce Butler, she becomes horrified by the treatment of the enslaved people. Her efforts to improve the lives of her husband's slaves result in their eventual divorce and the loss of access to her two daughters. Fanny later publishes her journals and their first-hand accounts of slavery, helping influence the British government's decision to withhold support of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
Deeply (2000)
, 1h41Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Films about writers
Actors Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Molly Dunsworth, Trent Ford, Brent Carver, Alberta Watson
Roles Uncle Peat
Rating59%
Claire McKay (Julia Brendler)—having suffered the death of her boyfriend—is brought by her mother to Ironbound Island in the hopes that time away from the city will allow her to recover emotionally. On the island where her mother was born, Claire meets an eccentric writer, Celia (Lynn Redgrave), who in flashbacks, relates her own story as a grief-stricken teenager in 1949. Celia—Silly (Kirsten Dunst) in the flashbacks—is the next chosen victim of a Viking curse which was placed on the island centuries ago when their longship sank in the bay.
The Boondock Saints (1999)
, 1h48Directed by Troy Duffy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Buddy films, Gangster films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Willem Dafoe, Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Billy Connolly, David Ferry
Roles Doc
Rating75%
The Irish American fraternal twin brothers, Connor and Murphy MacManus, attend a Catholic Mass, where the priest mentions the fate of Kitty Genovese. Later, while celebrating St. Patrick's Day with friends, the two get into a bar brawl with three Russian mobsters who want to close the pub and take over the land it is built on. The two brothers try to reason with the mobsters, but they respond with violence, only to be quickly and embarrassingly dispatched by the brothers and other patrons of the bar. The next morning, two of the Russians seek revenge on Connor and Murphy, who kill the mobsters in an act of self-defense.
Mother Night (1996)
, 1h54Directed by Keith Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about writers, Films about religion, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Sheryl Lee, Alan Arkin, Nick Nolte, Zach Grenier, Kirsten Dunst, Anna Berger
Roles Father Patrick Keeley
Rating70%
Confined in an Israeli jail, Howard W. Campbell, Jr. writes a memoir about his career in Nazi Germany. During the buildup to World War II, Campbell, an American playwright of German language stage productions, is approached by War Department operative Frank Wirtanen. Wirtanen asks Campbell to work as a spy for the U.S. in the approaching war, though he promises no reward or recognition. Campbell rejects the offer, but Wirtanen adds that he wants Campbell to take some time to consider, telling him that Campbell's answer will come in the form of how he acts and what positions he assumes once the war begins.
Handel's Last Chance (1996)
, 51minutesDirected by Milan Cheylov
Origin Canada
Genres Biography
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Leon Pownall, Tod Fennell, Gerard Parkes
Rating66%
It Takes Two (1995)
, 1h41Directed by Andy Tennant
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about children, Jumeaux ou jumelles
Actors Kirstie Alley, Steve Guttenberg, Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate et Ashley Olsen, Jane Sibbett
Roles St. Bart's Priest
Rating59%
Two unrelated young girls who happen to look identical suddenly meet. Amanda Lemmon (Mary-Kate Olsen) is an orphan, and she is about to be adopted by the Butkises, a family whom she doesn't like. She actually wants her child-loving social worker, Diane Barrows (Kirstie Alley), to adopt her instead. Diane would like to do so, but authorities will not let her because of her low salary. Alyssa Callaway (Ashley Olsen) is coming home from her boarding school's piano recital competition, only to find that her wealthy father, Roger (Steve Guttenberg), is about to marry Clarice Kensington (Jane Sibbett) a socialite who threatens to send her soon-to-be stepdaughter to boarding school in Tibet.
Trapped in Paradise (1994)
, 1h51Directed by George Gallo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Christmas films
Actors Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Mädchen Amick, Florence Stanley, Donald Moffat
Roles Father Gorenzel
Rating58%
At Christmas time, Bill Firpo (Nicolas Cage), a straight-laced New York restaurant manager, gets an unpleasant Christmas gift. His brothers Dave (Jon Lovitz) and Alvin (Dana Carvey) are paroled early due to overcrowding and placed in Bill's custody. Dave and Alvin ask their brother to take them to Paradise, Pennsylvania to do a favor for a fellow inmate of theirs. Bill refuses because one, his brothers are not allowed out of New York State and two, he knows Dave's pathological tendencies. He only agrees after getting tied to a robbery their brothers made via his dropped wallet. When they discover Paradise's bank is light on security, Bill feels the urge to rob it if he had a gun. Fortunately, there are guns in the Infiniti sedan Dave and Alvin borrowed. With Alvin driving a stolen decrepit car, Bill and Dave storm the bank. The wife of the bank's president (Angela Paton) tells them that the bank safe door is locked and the president, Mr. Clifford Anderson (Donald Moffat), who has the key, is having lunch in the restaurant nearby. While Dave stays in the bank doing yoga breathing with the hostages, Alvin and Bill charge into the restaurant and call in a robbery. They order all customers to come with Bill to the bank so that no one calls the police when they go. Mr. Anderson opens the safe's door and Bill checks for motion sensors via a perfume spray. He steps over the sensors, gets the money, but while getting out of the safe, he touches the sensors via one of the money bags. Bill and Dave rush out of the bank and get away with their crime, stealing $275,000.
The Adjuster (1991)
, 1h42Directed by Atom Egoyan
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, David Hemblen, Jennifer Dale
Roles Tim
Rating65%
The Adjuster tells the story of an insurance adjuster who becomes intimate with his clients. The adjuster initially appears to want to help his clients but as the movie unfolds it is clear that the situation is more complex. He seems to be somehow a victim of his own situation.
Speaking Parts (1990)
, 1h33Directed by Atom Egoyan
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Horror, Romance
Actors Michael McManus, Arsinée Khanjian, Gabrielle Rose, Tony Nardi, Gerard Parkes, David Hemblen
Roles The Father
Rating66%
Speaking Parts involves a struggling, bit-part actor (McManus), whose job as a hotel custodian is a front for his real job as a gigolo by his female supervisor. A female co-worker is obsessed with him, but he ignores and avoids her. He leaves his acting resumé in the hotel room of a woman screenwriter, who is casting for a television movie based on the true story of her deceased brother. She hires him to play the lead and the two begin an affair. She becomes increasingly distraught as it becomes evident that the movie's producer is changing her story.
Short Circuit 2 (1988)
, 1h46Directed by Kenneth Johnson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Heist films, Gangster films, Robot films, Escroquerie
Actors Tim Blaney, Fisher Stevens, Michael McKean, Cynthia Gibb, Jack Weston, David Hemblen
Roles Priest
Rating57%
Benjamin Jahrvi (Fisher Stevens), now unemployed, is peddling sophisticated toy robots that he makes himself by hand on the street corners of New York City. One robot wanders away from his stand and by chance makes its way into the office of Sandy Banatoni (Cynthia Gibb), a scout for a major toy company. Sandy tracks Ben down and orders 1,000 of his toys. Overhearing this offer is con artist Fred Ritter (Michael McKean), who smooth-talks his way into becoming Ben's business partner in the deal and later acquires the funding Ben needs to get his assembly line started from a loan shark.
Fight for Life (1987)
, 1h35Directed by Elliot Silverstein
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jerry Lewis, Morgan Freeman, Patty Duke, Barry Morse, Gerard Parkes, Rosemary Dunsmore
Roles Father Robert Hunt
Rating58%
Dr Bernard Abrams (Jerry Lewis), an Ohio optometrist, and his wife Shirley Abrams (Patty Duke) have a six-year-old daughter that suffers from a rare form of epilepsy. The child's paraplegic doctor (Morgan Freeman) cares for her. As the little girl's parents they need to have a drug approved from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However the process is slow and they are forced to fly to England to obtain the medication. They take their cause to the media in order to highlight their case and force the FDA to expedite its decision on use in America.
Draw! (1984)
, 1h38Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Kirk Douglas, James Coburn, Alexandra Bastedo, Graham Jarvis, Derek McGrath, Frank C. Turner
Roles Circuit Judge Fawcett
Rating61%
In the final days of the Old West, a former desperado (Kirk Douglas) faces down a now drunken ex-sheriff (James Coburn), who was his longtime nemesis.
Spasms (1983)
, 1h30Directed by William Fruet
Origin Canada
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about snakes
Actors Peter Fonda, Oliver Reed, Kerrie Keane, Al Waxman, Marilyn Lightstone, Angus MacInnes
Roles Captain Novack
Rating44%
Jason Kincaid (Oliver Reed) has a massive serpent captured in a remote island. He brought it to the US because it killed his brother, and he now shares some kind of psychic link with it. He enlists the help of psychologist Tom Brazilian (Peter Fonda) to study the animal and the mental connection, but they do not count on a group of snake worshiping Satanists to complicate matters by accidentally setting the beast free.
Yesterday (1981)
, 1h35Directed by Larry Kent
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Vincent Van Patten, Daniel Gadouas, Claire Pimparé, Nicholas Campbell, Jack Wetherall, Jacques Godin
Roles Professor Saunders
Rating61%