Frank Russell Parker (July 1, 1939[citation needed] – September 16, 2018)[1] was an American television actor.

He portrayed the character semi-regularly from 1983 to 2008, when he started having health issues and made the decision to leave.

In order to write Parker's character out of the show, Days of Our Lives writers had Shawn die in February 2008 after giving up his oxygen mask to save his son, Bo (Peter Reckell), on a sabotaged airplane that was going down.

Other acting credits include multiple episodes of Lost in Space, Hogan's Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, CHiPs, and Quincy, M.E.

On September 16, 2018, Parker died in Vacaville, California, from complications of Parkinson's Disease and dementia.