[3][4] During his stint at PMCA, he won a role in a touring company production of The Trojan Women.

He subsequently appeared mostly in straight porn films shot in New York, such as Summer of Laura (1975), Jail Bait (1976), Barbara Broadcast (1977), Teenage Pajama Party (1977), Maraschino Cherry (1977), Punk Rock (1977), Take Off (1978) and Blonde Ambition (1981).

The title track was released as a single and appears on the box set The Casablanca Records Story (1994).

[6] Parker joined the cast of the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1979 as Police Chief Derek Mallory.

[2][7] There was a prevalent rumor that circulated around that Parker had died by suicide after receiving his AIDS diagnosis rather than dying directly of the illness, but his older brother denied this was true in an oral history published on The Rialto Report.