Personal Info
Birth date
1968-11-16 (56 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ventura County, California, USA
Also known as
James Dean Parks
James Jean Parks
James Parks
Biography
James Jean Parks (born November 16, 1968) is an American actor. Parks was born in Ventura County, California. His roles include Texas Ranger Edgar McGraw in From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, Kill Bill: Volume 1, Kill Bill: Volume 2, Death Proof and Machete. Earl McGraw, the father of Edgar McGraw, is played by James' real life father, Michael Parks. He portrayed Deputy Gilber in the French horror film Rubber. Parks also acted alongside his father again in Kevin Smith's 2011 horror film, Red State, and appeared in Quentin Tarantino's films Django Unchained (as a tracker) and The Hateful Eight (as O.B. Jackson). In 2008, Parks had a small role on the hit HBO television series True Blood playing Mack Rattray. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Parks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
NCIS
7.628
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From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, a team of special agents investigates any crime that has a shred of evidence connected to Navy and Marine Corps personnel, regardless of rank or position.CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
7.636
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A Las Vegas team of forensic investigators are trained to solve criminal cases by scouring the crime scene, collecting irrefutable evidence and finding the missing pieces that solve the mystery.Bones
8.209
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Dr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special Agent Seeley Booth with murder investigations when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that the standard identification methods are useless.The Walking Dead
8.092
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Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.24
7.794
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Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.The X-Files
8.377
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The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to make scientific analyses of Mulder's discoveries that debunk Mulder's work and thus return him to mainstream cases.Stargate SG-1
8.29
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The story of Stargate SG-1 begins about a year after the events of the feature film, when the United States government learns that an ancient alien device called the Stargate can access a network of such devices on a multitude of planets. SG-1 is an elite Air Force special operations team, one of more than two dozen teams from Earth who explore the galaxy and defend against alien threats such as the Goa'uld, Replicators, and the Ori.Star Trek: Voyager
7.79
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Pulled to the far side of the galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.JAG
7.313
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Harmon "Harm" Rabb Jr. is a former pilot turned lawyer working for the military's JAG (Judge Advocate General) division, the elite legal wing of officers that prosecutes and defends those accused of military-related crimes. He works closely with Lt. Col. Sarah Mackenzie, and together they do what needs to be done to find the truth.Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8.1
Overview:
Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.Babylon 5
8.044
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Babylon 5 is a five-mile long space station located in neutral space. Built by the Earth Alliance in the 2250s, its goal is to maintain peace among the various alien races by providing a sanctuary where grievances and negotiations can be worked out among duly appointed ambassadors. A council made up of representatives from the five major space-faring civilizations - the Earth Alliance, Minbari Federation, Centauri Republic, Narn Regime, and Vorlon Empire - work with the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to keep interstellar relations under control. Aside from its diplomatic function, Babylon 5 also serves as a military post for Earth and a port of call for travelers, traders, businessmen, criminals, and Rangers.True Blood
7.621
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Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And while humans have been safely removed from the menu, many remain apprehensive about these creatures "coming out of the coffin." Religious leaders, government officials, and vampire fundamentalists around the world have chosen their sides. But in the small Louisiana town of Bon Temps, the jury is still out.Star Trek: Enterprise
7.553
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During the mid-22nd century, a century before Captain Kirk's five-year mission, Jonathan Archer captains the United Earth ship Enterprise during the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the Earth-Romulan War and the formation of the Federation.Nash Bridges
6.7
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Fun-loving San Francisco Police Department investigator Nash Bridges is part of the elite Special Investigations Unit. He tackles crime using his keen sense of humor and charm. Joe Dominguez comes out of retirement to become Bridges' wisecracking yet more rule-abiding partner.Django Unchained
8.184
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With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.The Sentinel
7.1
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The Sentinel is a Canadian-produced television series. In the jungles of peru, the fight for survival heightened his senses. Now, Detective Jim Ellison is a sentinel in the fight for justice. Anthropologist Blair Sandburg works side by side with Jim, helping him develop these senses.Deadwood
8.131
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The story of the early days of Deadwood, South Dakota; woven around actual historic events with most of the main characters based on real people. Deadwood starts as a gold mining camp and gradually turns from a lawless wild-west community into an organized wild-west civilized town. The story focuses on the real-life characters Seth Bullock and Al Swearengen.Kill Bill: Vol. 1
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An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.The Hateful Eight
7.755
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Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.Kill Bill: Vol. 2
7.873
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The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who had tried to kill her and her unborn child. She visits each of her former associates one-by-one, checking off the victims on her Death List Five until there's nothing left to do … but kill Bill.Jericho
7.406
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Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.Death Proof
6.832
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Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
7.386
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In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.The Son
6.668
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The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain his family’s cattle empire during the turbulent Bandit Wars of South Texas. Based on Philipp Meyer’s acclaimed novel.Brooklyn South
9.7
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An American ensemble police drama series following the life of police officers from the 74th Precinct in southern Brooklyn, New York City.From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
4.6
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A bank-robbing gang of misfits heads to Mexico with the blueprints for the perfect million-dollar heist, but when one of the crooks wanders into the wrong bar, the thieving cohorts develop a thirst for blood.Machete
6.337
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After being set-up and betrayed by the man who hired him to assassinate a Texas Senator, an ex-Federale launches a brutal rampage of revenge against his former boss.Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
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An assassin is shot and almost killed by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.The Elevator: Three Minutes Can Change Your Life
5.553
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A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.Crocodile 2: Death Roll
5.1
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After a bank robbery, four criminals escape to Mexico, but a storm causes an accident which takes down the plane where several die in the crash. The criminals take it into their own hands to continue when one survivor is attacked and eaten by a crocodile. The criminals kill it, but from then on the mother Crocodile is on a killing spree with a goal to kill each survivor. But that is not the only worry, because they're trapped within it's world, and if it doesn't kill them, the criminals will.Acting
2025Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair as Edgar McGraw
2025Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks as Self
2022Wrong Reasons as James Winandi
2017The Son (20 Episodes) as Niles Gilbert
2015The Hateful Eight as O. B. Jackson
2015The Elevator: Three Minutes Can Change Your Life as Jack
2012Django Unchained as Tracker
2011Red State as Mordechai
2011Amigo as Sgt. Runnels
2010Rubber as Doug
2010The Walking Dead (2 Episodes) as Captured Whisperer
2010Machete as Edgar McGraw
2009Noble Things as J.C.
2008True Blood (3 Episodes) as Mack Rattray
2008Three Priests as Johnny
2007Death Proof as Edgar McGraw
2007Grindhouse as Edgar McGraw (segment "Death Proof")
2006Fighting Words as Fresno Pete
2006Jericho (1 Episode) as Agent Hicks
2006The Listening as Anthony Ashe
2006House of the Dead 2 as Bart
2006Eight Days to Live as Anderson
2006Islander as Pokey
2005Daltry Calhoun as Arlo
2005Bones (1 Episode) as Sheriff Dawes
2004Kill Bill: Vol. 2 as Edgar McGraw
2004Deadwood (1 Episode) as Clell Watson
2003Kill Bill: Vol. 1 as Edgar McGraw
2003NCIS (1 Episode) as Ryan Sikes
2002Crocodile 2: Death Roll as Squid
200124 (1 Episode) as National Guard Sergeant
2001Star Trek: Enterprise (1 Episode) as Deputy Bennings
2000CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (1 Episode) as Jonathan Wax
1999You Know My Name as Alibi Joe
1999Crusade (1 Episode) as Duncan
1999From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money as Deputy McGraw
1999$pent as Grant
1997House of Frankenstein (2 Episodes) as Quinn
1997Brooklyn South (1 Episode) as Kevin O'Donnell
1997Stargate SG-1 (1 Episode) as Pharrin
1997Rough Riders (2 Episodes) as William Tiffany
1997Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1 Episode) as Tector Gorch
1996Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon as Man at Bar
1996Nash Bridges (1 Episode) as Butch
1996The Sentinel (1 Episode) as Tommy Juno
1995JAG (2 Episodes) as Slider Morrison
1995Star Trek: Voyager (1 Episode) as Vel
1994Babylon 5 (1 Episode) as Drakhen
1993The X-Files (1 Episode) as Agent Terry Sullivan
1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me as Service Station Mechanic
1991Conagher as Curly
1991Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story as Tiger Knowles
1990Shades of L.A. (1 Episode) as Unknown
1990Blind Vengeance as Will Sharkey