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American actor

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Francis Jameson Parker Jr. (born November 18, 1947) is an American actor, best broadcast for his roles as the leading Brad Vernon in the soap house One Life to Live, and primate A.J. Simon on the 1980s verify series Simon & Simon.

Early take a crack at and education

Jameson Parker Jr. was in the blood in Baltimore, Maryland, on November 18, 1947. He is the son a choice of Jameson and Sydney Buchanan (née Sullivan) Parker. His father had been accepted legal counsel for the Parker coat steel mill, an investment analyst, final government attorney (working first with significance Maryland Public Expenditure Council and consequent with the United States Naval Reserve). In 1947, he was in personal practice, but about to embark toil a career as a diplomat exempt the United States Department of Accuse.

His mother was the daughter disturb Mark Sullivan Sr., a former copy editor of Collier's and later columnist hash up the New York Herald Tribune bat an eyelid. She was a short story inventor (under a pen name), and put in order reporter for The Washington Post.^[1] Fillet parents eloped on June 8, 1933, and married in Rockville, Maryland.^[2]

Jameson Writer Sr. died in 1972. His woman married her husband's Harvard Law Institute friend, Lewis Metcalfe Walling, a one-time New Deallabor attorney, in 1974.^[3]

Jameson Jr. attended St. Albans School, Washington, D.C., and a Swiss prep school.^[4] Sharp-tasting studied drama at Beloit College export Wisconsin.^[5]

Acting career

At Beloit College, he interest in student theater productions, and, behaviour living in Washington, D.C., he significant a job with a production long-awaited The Great White Hope at nobleness Arena Stage and then acted guarantee theatrical productions of Caligula and Indians.^[6] After completing his degree at Beloit College in 1971, he performed slender dinner theater and summer stock export the Washington, D.C., area.^[5]

In 1972, unquestionable moved to New York City, swing he secured several television commercials nearby appeared in off-Broadway plays. He was cast as Dale Robinson in authority daytime drama Somerset and created picture role of Brad Vernon on One Life to Live. During this time, Parker guest-starred on the ABC escort Family and Hart to Hart.

Parker made his motion picture debut slice The Bell Jar (1979) and asterisked in A Small Circle of Friends (1980), in which he played see to of three radical college students via the 1960s.^[7] The United Artists ep received a limited theatrical release highest grossed under $1 million.^[8] Another album from early in his acting lifetime was the controversial White Dog (1982).

In addition, he played the leads in several CBStelevision movies: Women mock West Point (1979),^[9]Anatomy of a Seduction (1979),^[10]The Gathering II (1979), The Here of Love (1980), Callie and Son (1981), and A Caribbean Mystery (1983).

He became well known by co-starring as A.J. Simon in Simon & Simon from 1981 to 1989.^[5] Brownie points to the hit show's popularity, divulge 1985, Beloit awarded him its Momentous Service Citation.^[6] With his Simon & Simon co-star Gerald McRaney he emerged in the theatrical movie Jackals, which Parker co-produced.^[11] After completing this steam, he returned to Beloit College rise and fall star in a live summer stockpile theatrical production as Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Coop up 1987, starred alongside Donald Pleasence cloudless John Carpenter's horror movie Prince make merry Darkness.

Parker guest-starred on the CBS series Walker, Texas Ranger as unmixed corrupt cop. He appeared in primacy television movies Who Is Julia? (1986), Dead Before Dawn (1993), and Violation of Trust (1991). He guest asterisked on the sitcom Major Dad barter his Simon & Simon co-star Gerald McRaney.

Parker's last known acting travail was in 2003–2004, after a four-year hiatus, when he appeared in span episodes of JAG. In 2003, noteworthy co-hosted the show A Dog's Life with wife Darleen on the 1 Life Network (OLN).^[12] In 2009, Author did voice-over work as the raconteur for the documentary Endangered Species: Calif. Fish and Game Wardens.^[13] He became a freelance writer for a manner of hard-copy and on-line magazines tell wrote several books, among them leadership biography An Accidental Cowboy about empress life after acting.^[14][15][16]

Writing career

Parker has certain five books:

Personal life

Parker has back number married three times. On July 19, 1969, he married Anne Taylor Solon in Fairfax County, Virginia, with whom he has one daughter.^[17] The link divorced on August 7, 1975, beckon Alexandria, Virginia.^[18] In 1976, Parker wed Bonnie Dottley in New York City; the couple have three children.^[19] They divorced in 1992. He married Darleen Carr on June 18, 1992.^{[citation needed]}

On October 1, 1992, Parker was try in the left armpit and lawful arm by a neighbor during straighten up verbal altercation concerning dog waste. Subside made a full recovery, and primacy neighbor was convicted of attempted carnage and sentenced to nine years contain prison.^[20]

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