Trina Parks
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Trina Parks is an American actor, vocalist, choreographer, principal dancer and dance instructor.

She is most famous for portraying Thumper
Thumper
Thumper may refer to:* Thumper , a four-stroke single cylinder motorcycle* Project Thumper, an air defense system developed in the 1940s in competition with Project Nike* Bible thumper, a derisive term used to describe Christian fundamentalists...

 in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever
Diamonds Are Forever (film)
Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh spy film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the sixth and final Eon Productions film to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and is the second of four James Bond films...

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Movies

  • Diamonds Are Forever
    Diamonds Are Forever (film)
    Diamonds Are Forever is the seventh spy film in the Eon Productions James Bond series, and the sixth and final Eon Productions film to star Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel of the same name, and is the second of four James Bond films...

  • Darktown Strutters
  • The Muthers
  • The Great White Hope
    The Great White Hope (film)
    The Great White Hope is a 1970 biographical romantic drama film written and adapted from the Howard Sackler play of the same title. The film was directed by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Beah Richards and Moses Gunn...

  • The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers
    The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live...

  • Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
    Beyond the Valley of the Dolls is a 1970 American schlock melodrama film starring Dolly Read, Cynthia Myers, Marcia McBroom, John LaZar, Michael Blodgett and David Gurian...


Television

  • Night Gallery
    Night Gallery
    Night Gallery is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1970 to 1973, featuring stories of horror and the macabre. Rod Serling, who had gained fame from an earlier series, The Twilight Zone, served both as the on-air host of Night Gallery and as a major contributor of scripts, although...

    , episode "The Phantom Farmhouse"
  • McCoy
    McCoy (TV series)
    McCoy is the title of an American action-adventure television series that aired on NBC during the 1975-1976 season.The series starred Tony Curtis as a con man who "out-cons" bad guys in order to steal back their ill-gotten gains and return the loot to its rightful owners...

    - NBC Movie of the Week
  • Dick Shawn
    Dick Shawn
    Dick Shawn was an American actor and comedian.-Early life and career:Shawn was born as Richard Schulefand in Buffalo, New York. He played Sylvester Marcus, son of Mrs. Marcus , in Stanley Kramer's It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and Lorenzo St...

     Special
    - Featured singer/dancer - CBS
  • The Hollywood Palace
    The Hollywood Palace
    The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970. It began as a mid-season replacement for the short-lived Jerry Lewis Show, another variety show which had lasted only three months...

    (2 shows) - Featured singer/dancer - NBC
  • French composer Michel Legrand
    Michel Legrand
    Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...

     Special
    - Featured dancer - Paris TV
  • Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick
    Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health....

     Special
    - Featured dancer - CBS
  • Telly Savalas
    Telly Savalas
    Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz...

     Special
    - Featured dancer - CBS
  • Parks also appeared in television specials with Dean Martin
    Dean Martin
    Dean Martin was an American singer, film actor, television star and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "You're Nobody till Somebody Loves You", "Sway", "Volare" and "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?"...

     and Sammy Davis, Jr.
    Sammy Davis, Jr.
    Samuel George "Sammy" Davis Jr. was an American entertainer and was also known for his impersonations of actors and other celebrities....


Theater

  • The Selling of the President
  • Her First Roman
    Her First Roman
    Her First Roman is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Ervin Drake, based on the 1898 George Bernard Shaw play Caesar and Cleopatra.-Original production:...

  • The Emperor Jones
    The Emperor Jones
    The Emperor Jones is a 1920 play by American dramatist Eugene O'Neill which tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African-American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as emperor...

    - Principal - NY & European Tour, with James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones is an American actor. He is well-known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership...

  • The Great White Hope
    The Great White Hope
    The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a film of the same name. The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre on October 3, 1968 for a run of 546 performances, directed by Edwin Sherin...

    with James Earl Jones
  • Bittersweet
    Bittersweet
    -Biology:*A vine in the nightshade family, Solanum dulcamara*Some species of vines in the genus Celastrus, including American bittersweet and Oriental bittersweet -Biology:*A vine in the nightshade family, Solanum dulcamara*Some species of vines in the genus Celastrus, including American...

    - Principal - Long Beach C.L. Opera, with Shirley Jones
  • More Than You Deserve
    More Than You Deserve
    More Than You Deserve is a musical written by Jim Steinman and Michael Weller, produced by Joseph Papp and directed by Kim Friedman. It opened at The Public Theater on November 21, 1973, ran for 63 performances and closed on January 13, 1974...

    - Principal - NY Shakespeare Festival, with Fred Gwynne
  • They're Playing Our Song
    They're Playing Our Song
    They're Playing Our Song is a musical with a book by Neil Simon, lyrics by Carole Bayer Sager, and music by Marvin Hamlisch.In a story based on the real-life relationship of Hamlisch and Sager, a wisecracking composer finds a new, offbeat lyricist, but initially the match is not one made in heaven...

    - Principal - Grand Dinner Theatre, with Joanne Worley
  • House of Flowers '92 - Principal - East Coast Tour, with Pattie LaBelle
  • In Dahomey
    In Dahomey
    In Dahomey was a landmark American musical comedy, in that it was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." It featured music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A. Shipp, and lyrics by Paul Laurence Dunbar...

    - New Federal Theatre at the Harry De Jur Playhouse, New York
  • Sophisticated Ladies
    Sophisticated Ladies
    Sophisticated Ladies is a musical revue based on the music of Duke Ellington.After fifteen previews, the Broadway production, conceived by Donald McKayle, directed by Michael Smuin, and choreographed by McKayle, Smuin, Henry LeTang, Bruce Heath, and Mercedes Ellington, opened on March 1, 1981 at...

    - Starring - US Tour
  • National Tai Pai Theatre - Guest Soloist - European Concert
  • Changes
    Changes
    -Music:* A jazz term for chord progression* Changes , a documentary and live DVD by the heavy metal band Godsmack-Bands:* Changes , an American folk band* The Changes , an American rock band- Albums :...

    - Principal - Theatre de Lys
  • Ovid's Metamorphoses - Principal - Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles
  • Catch a Rising Star
    Catch a Rising Star
    Catch a Rising Star is a chain of comedy clubs, founded in New York City in December 1972 and owned by Rick Newman. It has since spread to other areas, such as Las Vegas and New Jersey....

  • Bread, Beans and Things - Co-Star - Aquarius Theatre, Los Angeles
  • Black Ballet Jazz - Guest Artist - European Tour
  • Black Diamonds - Guest Artist - John Houston Theatre
  • I Don't Want to Cry No More
  • Deux Anges Sont Venus - Guest Artist - Théâtre de Paris
    Théâtre de Paris
    The Théâtre de Paris is a theatre located at 15, rue Blanche in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It includes a second smaller venue, called the Petit Théâtre de Paris.-History:...

  • Sights and Sounds at Carnegie Hall
  • Eleo Pomare Dance Company - Guest Artist
  • Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. - New York
  • Trina's Tribute to Duke Ellington - One Person Show
  • [The Palm Springs Follies] - 6 years

Choreography

  • Clytemnestra & Agamemnon
  • Rumba Trio - Lulu Washington Dance Company
  • Golden Globe Awards
  • Car Wash movie tour
  • "Tribute to the Black Woman" concert
  • Carousal

External links

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