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,...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Long Lonesome Highway: The Story of Michael Parks
2025
as Self
Chronicles Michael, an acclaimed actor blacklisted by Hollywood for most of his career, exploring his life and struggles within the industry's system.
Wrong Reasons
2022
as James Winandi
When an ambiguously Intentioned masked man kidnaps a drug addicted punk singer, it triggers a police investigation as well as a media circus.
QT8: The First Eight
2019
as Self (archive footage)
A detailed account of the life and artistic career of legendary filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, from his early days as a video club manager to the scanda...
The Hateful Eight
2015
as O. B. Jackson
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
The Elevator: Three Minutes Can Change Your Life
2015
as Jack
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...
Django Unchained
2012
as Tracker
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
Red State
2011
as Mordechai
Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter Christian fundamentalists with a much more si...
Amigo
2011
as Sgt. Runnels
Rafael is a village mayor caught in the murderous crossfire of the Philippine-American War. When U.S. troops occupy his village, Rafael comes under pr...
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011
as Edgar McGraw
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 veng...
Rubber
2010
as Doug
A group of people gather in the California desert to watch a "film" set in the late 1990s featuring a sentient, homicidal car tire named Robert. The a...
Machete
2010
as Edgar McGraw
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 h...
Noble Things
2009
as J.C.
Jimmy Wayne Collins finds himself adrift in Memphis, Tennessee. Forced to return home to the piney woods of Southeast Texas, Jimmy will face his impri...
Three Priests
2008
as Johnny
Dusty and Joe are brothers as different as can be. Dusty, a confident bronco rider and ladies' man, has always dominated the shy, younger Joe, who str...
Death Proof
2007
as Edgar McGraw
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...
Grindhouse
2007
as Edgar McGraw (segment "Death Proof")
Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Taranti...
Fighting Words
2006
as Fresno Pete
An angry coffeehouse poet meets an attractive, conservative publisher, who is interested in his work. She wants him to enter the Los Angeles Poetron, ...
The Listening
2006
as Anthony Ashe
Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a cland...
House of the Dead 2
2006
as Bart
In Guesta Verde University, the deranged Professor Curien is trying to bring back the dead, killing students for the experiment. There is an outbreak ...
Eight Days to Live
2006
as Anderson
A mother searches for her lost son, who after four days still has not returned from a party at a friend's house a day's drive away.
Islander
2006
as Pokey
After a tragic accident at sea, Eben Cole loses his family, friends and stature in his island fishing community. He returns to the island an outcast b...
Daltry Calhoun
2005
as Arlo
In small town Tennessee, a ne'er-do-well man (Knoxville) wrestling for control over his fading golf club is reunited with his estranged daughter, a 14...
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004
as Edgar McGraw
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 v...
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003
as Edgar McGraw
An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.
Crocodile 2: Death Swamp
2002
as Squid
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 c...
You Know My Name
1999
as Alibi Joe
In six months, the population of Cromwell, Oklahoma, has climbed from 500 to 10,000. Boom times have come to the oil-rich town. So has a new breed of ...
From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money
1999
as Deputy McGraw
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 w...
$pent
1999
as Grant
This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives.
Apollo 11: First Steps on the Moon
1996
as Man at Bar
Fearful that the Russians would continue their lead in the space race and be the first to put a man on the moon, NASA felt an enormous pressure to pus...
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992
as Service Station Mechanic
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The...
Conagher
1991
as Curly
Mrs. Evie Teale is struggling to stay alive while raising her two children alone on a remote homestead. Conn Conagher is an honest, hardworking cowboy...
Line of Fire: The Morris Dees Story
1991
as Tiger Knowles
This is the story of Morris Dees, a civil rights lawyer, who's being threatened, so he has to have an armed bodyguard.
Blind Vengeance
1990
as Will Sharkey
A man seeks revenge on the white supremacists acquitted in the murder of his son