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Character actor Michael Parks has died after a career that lasted more than 50 years.
Parks’ agent, Jane Schulman, confirmed his death to news organizations but she did not specify the cause.
Parks, a California native, didn’t begin acting until after years of fruit picking, truck driving and fire fighting.
Park sang the show’s theme song, which became a hit on the Billboard and Hot Country songs charts.
Parks recorded pop, jazz and gospel albums, too, but mostly stuck to acting.
Over the decades, he racked up more than a hundred film and TV credits as villains and antiheroes.
Parks played a Texas Ranger in From Dusk Till Dawn – a role he reprised in Tarantino’s Kill Bill series.
Parks also played a Mexican pimp in that movie, and Tarantino also directed him in Django Unchained and Grindhouse.
Smith says Parks was a genius and called him a “Yoda of acting.”