{"id":33835,"date":"2014-10-21T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=33835"},"modified":"2014-10-21T16:53:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T06:23:58","slug":"vale-gerard-parkes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2014\/10\/21\/vale-gerard-parkes\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Gerard Parkes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33836\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33836\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Gerard Parkes (in The Boondock Saints) - 1924-2014\" width=\"411\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-508x339.jpg 508w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-720x480.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-75x50.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gerard Parkes (in The Boondock Saints) &#8211; 1924-2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gerard Parkes, a Canadian actor best known for his appearances in <em>Fraggle Rock<\/em> and the<em> Boondock Saints<\/em> franchise, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Parkes was born in Ireland, before emigrating to Canada, where he has a prolific career in film, radio, television and on stage. He made appearances in children&#8217;s shows such as <em>The Forest Rangers<\/em> and <em>The Littlest Hobo<\/em>, as well as film&#8217;s such as<em> An American Christmas Carol<\/em> (1979), <em>A Muppet Family Christmas<\/em> (1987), <em>Short Circuit 2<\/em> (1988), and 1998&#8217;s <em>Thunder Point<\/em>. But it was for his role of the Tourettes-afflicted barman, Doc, in 1999&#8217;s <em>The Boondock Saints<\/em>, and in its 2009 sequel, <em>All Saints Day<\/em>, that he&#8217;s best remembered by younger audiences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gerard Parkes passed away on October 19, just three days after his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Parkes, a Canadian actor best known for his appearances in Fraggle Rock and the Boondock Saints franchise, has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":33836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full.jpg",900,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-500x280.jpg",500,280,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-660x365.jpg",660,365,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-840x600.jpg",640,457,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full.jpg",900,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full.jpg",900,600,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full.jpg",900,600,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full.jpg",510,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1368209957_20_full.jpg",272,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}