{"id":121310,"date":"2017-05-10T14:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T19:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=121310"},"modified":"2017-05-11T09:09:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T14:09:51","slug":"actor-michael-parks-passes-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=121310","title":{"rendered":"Actor Michael Parks passes at age 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-121311\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ParksMichael-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ParksMichael-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ParksMichael-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ParksMichael-263x175.jpg 263w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/ParksMichael.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Parks, a prolific character actor and a favorite of directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has died. He was 77.<\/p>\n<p>Parks&#8217; agent, Jane Schulman, says the actor died Tuesday in Los Angeles. No cause of death was announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a career that spanned five decades, Parks acted in more than 100 films and TV shows, including &#8220;Twin Peaks.&#8221; Many of his early starring roles were countercultural 1960s films, including &#8220;Wild Seed&#8221; and &#8220;Bus Riley&#8217;s Back in Town,&#8221; alongside Ann-Margret. He starred as a disillusioned, motorcycle-riding newsman in the 1969 series &#8220;Then Came Bronson.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Parks&#8217; career enjoyed a rebirth thanks to the interest of Tarantino, Smith and Robert Rodriguez. He had memorable parts in Tarantino&#8217;s &#8220;Kill Bill&#8221; films, Rodriguez&#8217;s &#8220;From Dusk till Dawn&#8221; and Smith&#8217;s &#8220;Tusk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michael Parks, a prolific character actor and a favorite of directors Quentin Tarantino and Kevin Smith, has died. He was 77. Parks&#8217; agent, Jane Schulman, says the actor died Tuesday in Los Angeles. No cause of death was announced. In a career that spanned five decades, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121363,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121310\/revisions\/121363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}