Parker Stevenson

Acting

Parker Stevenson

Born 1952-06-04 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Parker Stevenson (born Richard Stevenson Parker, Jr) is an American television and film actor. Stevenson's first notable screen appearance was a starring role in the 1972 movie A Separate Peace, credited as Parker Stevenson. After graduating from Brooks School and Princeton University, where he studied architecture, he moved to Hollywood and landed a role opposite Sam Elliott in the 1976 film Lifeguard. Stevenson became well known from starring with teen heartthrob Shaun Cassidy in The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries series, produced by Glen A. Larson's production company through MCA-Universal Television (now NBCUniversal) under license from the Stratemeyer Publication Syndicate , from 1977 to 1979 on ABC. In 1983, he co-starred in the movie Stroker Ace as Burt Reynolds's brash race-car driving nemesis, Aubrey James. The film was a critical and financial failure. In 1986, Stevenson starred as Billy Hazard in the television miniseries North and South: Book II. He co-starred with his then-wife Kirstie Alley, who portrayed his sister Virgilia Hazard. He starred on the short-lived 1988 TV series Probe in the lead role of Austin James. He was part of the original cast of Baywatch in the 1989 season, returning for the syndicated 1997 and 1998 seasons. He had a recurring role as a computer tycoon on Melrose Place during the second season. He starred in Legion. In 2014 he had a guest role on the Western/Mystery series Longmire. Stevenson has been a photographer since he was young; his work can be found at his photography website, shadowworks. He currently stars on Greenhouse Academy on Netflix (2017-current) as Louis Osmond, Academy Director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Parker Stevenson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Official Denial poster
6.0

A UFO abductee joins a secret government agency in order to communicate with the sole surviving alien of a downed spacecraft.

Official Denial

1993

Are You Lonesome Tonight? poster
3.5

A desperate socialite seeks her missing husband, troubled by bad investments and debts, with help from a private eye and the high-priced call girl hubby had been seeing.

Are You Lonesome Tonight?

1992

Lifeguard poster
6.1

Rick is a Los Angeles County lifeguard who is in his thirties. At his 15-year high school reunion, he sees his old girlfriend who is now a divorced mother. After falling in love with her, Rick considers changing his career and lifestyle.

Lifeguard

1976

My Christmas Prince poster
5.8

Samantha, a dedicated teacher in Manhattan, returns to her home town of Maple Falls, Wyoming every year for Christmas. This year, she’s delighted when her boyfriend Alex, a European diplomat from the tiny country of Madelvia, decides to joins her. Samantha later discovers Alex is actually a prince destined for the throne, turning her entire world upside down. Realizing that staying with Alex means spending her life in the constant glare of publicity and giving up the job opportunity of a lifetime, Samantha must decide if she loves Alex enough to make the transition from teacher to royal – or will it be too big a leap

My Christmas Prince

2017

Stroker Ace poster
4.8

Stroker Ace, a champion NASCAR driver, is standing at the top of his career, but is getting fed up with having to do as he's told. In between rebelling against his sponsor (a fried chicken chain)'s promotion gimmicks (like making him dress up in giant chicken suit) he spends the rest of the movie trying to bed the buxom Pembrook.

Stroker Ace

1983

The Cover Girl and the Cop poster
6.0

Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.

The Cover Girl and the Cop

1989

This House Possessed poster
5.9

A sinister force permeating a secluded mountain estate convinces the nurse/companion of rock star Parker Stevenson, who has had a nervous collapse, that the house is alive and determined to keep her prisoner.

This House Possessed

1981

Shooting Stars poster
5.0

Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.

Shooting Stars

1983

Legion poster
3.7

This future-set sci-adventure follows a band of brave soldiers in an epic battle against a government-created monster.

Legion

1998

Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier poster
7.6

Welcome to the bay... Mitch and his friends enter the sink or swim world that is BAYWATCH.

Baywatch: Panic at Malibu Pier

1989

The Perfect Daughter poster
6.7

Finding his daughter confused and drunk one night, Martin overreacts and puts a wedge between their once idyllic relationship at a time when she'll need him the most.

The Perfect Daughter

2016

Win, Lose or Love poster
5.0

As young and recently single parents, Clara and Alex have two completely different styles of parenting. While helicopter mom Clara hovers over her son Oliver, Alex's daughter Emma feels out of touch with her father's life. Their two worlds collide when Alex proposes that his marketing company shoot a commercial at the kids' school and Clara, up for election as the parent group president, objects the idea. The commercial is Alex's last hope for keeping the company afloat, so in a moment of desperation, he nominates himself for parent group president. In a surprising turn of events, Clara and Alex tie for president and must work together to run the group until the mandated re-vote. The bitter rivals struggle for power, outfoxing each other any chance they get, until the matter of raising their children puts things into perspective. Clara and Alex come to a mutual understanding and even ignite a spark of romance.

Win, Lose or Love

2015

Not of This Earth poster
4.3

An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.

Not of This Earth

1995

Hidden Truth poster
5.3

After a teenage girl is found murdered in a California town, a young woman is forced to prove her brother is innocent of the crime, discovering a disturbing dark side to the community.

Hidden Truth

2016

A Christmas Reunion poster
5.1

A Madison Avenue executive, Amy, discovers an unusual Christmas surprise when she inherits her Aunt’s hometown bakery. The real surprise comes when she learns the other half of the bakery was left to her long-ago boyfriend, Jack. Unresolved personal issues resurface between them, as the exes return home to co-manage the store, along with its traditional holiday cookie bake-off.

A Christmas Reunion

2015

Stitches poster
3.5

The misadventures of three students in medical school.

Stitches

1985

Our Time poster
7.6

Drama about students at a girls' school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy.

Our Time

1974

That Secret Sunday poster
6.8

A police cover-up of the murder of two young women at a wild party is complicated by the possible faking of a story by an overzealous young reporter seeking instant newspaper stardom.

That Secret Sunday

1986

Loaded poster
4.5

A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence.

Loaded

2008

Trapped poster
5.2

Hotel guests become trapped by a raging fire.

Trapped

2001

Avalon: Beyond the Abyss poster
4.1

An island blows up, and from its remains a black poison fills the ocean. A team of underwater specialists with high-tech gear have to stop the poison before it contaminates the earth, but things get increasingly bizarre the more they investigate.

Avalon: Beyond the Abyss

1999

His Secret Family poster
5.2

Sarah was living the perfect life with her husband, Jason and their son Brandon until… Jason simply disappears! Days of searching turn into weeks of agony for Sarah and her son Brandon. To make matters worse, Sarah’s son suffers from a rare genetic disease and only Jason’s DNA can save him. When Sarah finally tracks down Jason, he sets out to make sure Sarah doesn't ruin his secret life and expose his dangerous past.

His Secret Family

2015

Mistrust poster
4.1

Happy, beautiful and independent, Veronica enjoys being a mistress. No commitment, no strings and she never has to be vulnerable. She has carefully laid every brick in the walls of the fortress surrounding her heart. She's safe and having a great time. However, there is one person who knew her heart before those walls were erected, her best friend Brandon, who has stood by her for too many years to count. And while Veronica has tried to keep her feelings at bay, he is the one who holds the key that opens her Pandora's box of emotions.

Mistrust

2018

Terror Peak poster
4.8

Melanie Fraser has a problem. Her mother, Dr. Janet Fraser, thinks that she can bond with her stepfather by accompanying mom and dad on a simple business excursion to see if a small tour guide company is a good investment for clients. The fact that the trip will take the threesome to the site of a volcano in New Zealand is nothing for Melanie to worry about. Old "Mount Extreme" is inactive and mom is a former volcanologist who should know a safe hill when she sees one. So what's the problem? Answer: somebody forgot to tell the gods in charge of lava control that they were about to host a family therapy session. Mount Extreme decides to live up to its name just in time to make Melanie's quality time with the folks seem like a big mistake.

Terror Peak

2003