Carl Parker(I)

The handsome and masculine Carl Parker was born Carlton Hubble Parker III in 1937. His grandfather Carl H. Parker was an economist who taught economics at UC-San Francisco and served as the Executive Secretary of the State Immigration and Housing Commission of California while his grandmother Cornelia Stratton Parker was the first American woman to climb the Matterhorn. Parker grew up in a 600-acre socialist boarding school for boys in Williamstown, Massachusetts. After leaving home, Carl attended a few colleges that he subsequently dropped out of. Parker went on to travel across the ocean on a freighter and lived in both Austria and on the French Riviera for a year.

Carl eventually returned to America and did a stint in the armed forces in which he represented the US Army in skiing in the winter and tennis in the summer. Following said stint in the US Army Parker moved to Greenwich Village in New York City. Carl fell into the modeling business in the 1960's and achieved considerable fame by portraying a smooth and suave, but conceited and narcissistic male chauvinist character in both print ads and TV commercials for Silva Thins cigarettes. Parker got married and moved to Italy in the late 1960's. Carl began auditioning for movies and landed a lead role in Matem Rommel (1969). Parker then moved to California before moving once again to upstate New York, where he worked in real estate selling barns before going on to act in two movies for noted erotic filmmaker Radley Metzger. After calling it a day as an actor, Carl returned to the real estate business. Parker now lives in a rural community in upstate New York.