Gerard Parkes
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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Films (46)
Les Anges de Boston 2 : La Toussaint
2009 · Doc
Fraggle Rock: Dance Your Cares Away
2005 · Doc (as Gerry Parkes)
Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111
2000 · Bruno Mettler
Deeply
2000 · Uncle Peat
A House Divided
2000 · Judge Stevens
Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble
2000 · Charles Kemble
Must Be Santa
1999
The Boondock Saints
1999 · Doc
Thanks of a Grateful Nation
1998 · Ferdinand Noble
Thunder Point
1998 · Prime Minister
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
1997 · Father Daniel (segment "Mamusha")
Mother Night
1996 · Father Patrick Keeley
Handel's Last Chance
1996 · Jonathan Swift
It Takes Two
1995 · St. Bart's Priest
Small Gifts
1994 · Priest
Trapped in Paradise
1994 · Father Gorenzel
That Scatterbrain Booky
1992
The Adjuster
1991 · Tim
Money
1991 · Henry Clay Adams
The Gunrunner
1990
Common Ground
1990 · Father Foley
Speaking Parts
1990 · The Father
The Last Winter
1989
Short Circuit 2
1988 · Priest
A Muppet Family Christmas
1987 · Doc
Fight for Life
1987 · Father Robert Hunt
Heaven On Earth
1987 · Reverend Laird
Fraggles Look For Jobs
1986 · Himself
Fraggle Rock: Scared Silly
1985 · Doc
The Suicide Murders
1985 · Frank Bushmill
The Bells of Fraggle Rock
1984 · Doc
Draw!
1984 · Circuit Judge Fawcett
Spasms
1983 · Captain Novack
Fraggle Rock: Live by the Rule of the Rock
1983 · Doc
Yesterday
1980 · Professor Saunders
An American Christmas Carol
1979 · Jessup
Bethune
1977 · Dr. MacCacken
Second Wind
1976 · Packard
Freedom of the City
1975 · Priest
Running Time
1974 · The Old Lady's Son
The Pyx
1973
The Apprentice
1971 · Professor
The First Time
1969 · Charles
A Great Big Thing
1968 · Appie
Isabel
1968 · Uncle Matthew
David Thompson: The Great Mapmaker
1964 · Duncan McGillivray
