Michael Parker

Michael Parker (1935-2019) was active in the theatre almost all his life. At age 14, in England, where he was born and raised, he won the title role in a regional production of Terence Rattigan’s play The Winslow Boy, for which he received a Best Actor of the Year award. By age 17, he was touring with The National Shakespearean Youth Company. He graduated in the top 3% of his class from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, but described his five years of military service as “uneventful.” There being few employment opportunities in civilian life for infantry anti-tank specialists, at age 23 he emigrated to Canada, where he began a Temporary Office Help business, which proved so successful that he was able to retire ten years later and move to the Caribbean.