Frank parker biography

Frank Russell Parker was an American television actor.
Frank Russell Parker was an American television actor.
Frank Parker was born on July 1, 1939 in Darby, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Battlestar Galactica (1978), Wonder Woman (1975) and Days of.

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Frank Parker [USA]
Born: 31 January 1916
Died: 24 July 1997
Career: 1931-50
Played: Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Peak rank: 1 (1948)
Peak Elo rating: 2,103 (1st place, 1941 and 1945)
Major singles titles: 4
Total singles titles: 73

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It’s possible to tell the story of men’s tennis in the 1930s and 1940s with only a passing mention of Frank Parker. When Bill Tilden went pro, he passed the baton to Ellsworth Vines, who gave way to Fred Perry and Jack Crawford. In the late 1930s, Don Budge emerged to dominate the circuit, followed by Bobby Riggs, a wartime hiatus, Jack Kramer, and Richard “Pancho” González.

Parker wasn’t a match for any of those men. He won the US National Championships in 1944 and 1945, the editions most affected by World War II. The 1944 field was only 32 players, only a handful of them serious contenders. Even the typically exuberant Allison Danzig wrote of that year’s tit

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Frank Parker

Frank Parker may refer to:

Frank Parker (tennis) (1916–1997), American tennis player
Frank Parker (singer) (1903–1999), American singer and television personality
Frank Parker (actor) (1939–2018), American television actor
Frank Parker (United States Army officer) (1872–1947), American military general
Frank W. Parker (1860–1932), New Mexico Supreme Court justice
Frank Parker (American football) (born 1939), former American football defensive lineman
Frank Parker (sport shooter) (1866–1933), Canadian Olympic shooter, competitor at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Frank B. Parker, a fictional character in the television series Seven Days
Frank Parker (footballer) (1920–2017), Australian rules footballer
Frank R. Parker (1940–1997), American civil rights lawyer and voting rights activist
Frank Critchley Parker (1862–1944), Australian journalist and newspaper publisher

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Frank Andrew Parker had tennis longevity long admired by the sport: He ranked in the U.S. Top 10 for 17 consecutive years (1933-49). That streak remained a male record until Jimmy Connors eclipsed it in 1988. As a youthful tennis prodigy, Parker was nicknamed the “Boy Wonder of Tennis.” As his game matured and his strokes became finely grooved, he was labeled “The Human Backboard” by journalists who covered tennis during Parker’s era.

Parker won back-to-back U.S. National Men’s Singles Championships in 1944 and 1945 and French International Singles titles in 1948 and 1949. He added three other major doubles victories at the U.S. Nationals in 1943 and the French International and Wimbledon in 1949. With championships at the U.S. and French, Parker became the third of only five American men to achieve this feat, sharing this unique distinction with Don Budge, Don McNeill, Tony Trabert, and Andre Agassi.

He was born Franciszek A. Pajkowski in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of Polish immigrants and the youngest of five children. As a 10-year-old, Parker was discovered hitting old ten