Earl Parker's Combat! Photos - Courtesy of M-1 (Chris Cooper)
Send Chris an email to thank him! Click here.

(Property of the Estate of Earl Parker - All rights reserved. Permission is given to reproduce these photos; no permission is given for sale of these pictures of any kind or on any website, or for use in a publication that is to be sold. )

Any problems with this page, please email the Webmaster

The photos on this page are from November 1967, Page 1

Picture 1 - Vic Morrow and friends. Per Filly: Page 3, picture 4 and page 4, picture 1 are from Vic's movie Target: Harry. As I recall, Earl was Vic's stunt double on that one.

Per ChipsChick: The short blonde woman with Vic is his girlfriend Joanna Lee possibly in Istanbul when he was doing Target Harry. Don't know who the other woman is.

Per White Queen: About EP's photos...there's one on page four of Vic walking down a street with his girlfriend, and it just gave me a sudden case of goosebumps because it was so neat to see Vic when he wasn't being Sgt. Saunders or some other equally wonderful character, but instead just to catch a glimpse of Vic being a real person walking around with his girl and some friends. I don't know, it just touched me.

Picture 2

Picture 3 - Victor Buono and Vic Morrow, with Joanna Lee off to the far right side in the pic.

Per Filly: Picture 3 is from Vic's movie Target: Harry. As I recall, Earl was Vic's stunt double on that one.

Picture 4 - Pierre Jalbert and the rest of the gang. Per Dodger: Photo 8 appears to have been taken at some army facility. An educated guess would be at Fort Ord, California (near Monterey) when the Combat! cast went to boot camp.

Per Filly: I have a question for you all. Now just give this a thought and don't poo poo it right away. OK. Dodger, you say that picture 4 is Fort Ord where the guys took their training. I want to suggest a slightly different scenario. Remember I think it was peacekeeper commenting that they looked like a group of Israeli commandos? Well, as I looked at the pic, I am not convinced first that is Pierre. They guy looks awfully tall for Pierre. Second, the guys are wearing what appear to be camo if not some kind of a pattern more similar to tiger stripes. In every picture I've seen from there, the Combat guys were dressed in green fatigues. I don't believe that they'd have been given several outfits for the training. And we know that in Combat the squad never wore camouflage. Next. The boots don't look right to my unpracticed eye. Is there any evidence that this actually *is* in the United States? I've been looking for evidence...like the painting at the back of the truck on the right (has a kind of European look...the license plate is either long or there is a bumper sticker on it. The shape and size of the car or truck? Any of the buildings or signs? *Could* this be a picture of soldiers in Israel? Just a thought. I think I heard that Vic took Earl and several others with him to Israel...after Target Harry was done? And we *do* have pictures of Target: Harry taken by Earl. Anybody else any observations? If not then I won't bother to continue. Just a thought.

Per Sarge Ginette: Filly - I agree with you on this. Because if you go to Camo's Canteen. Camo has an article up there showing the guys of Combat! when they were training and they are not dress like that.

Per ChipsChick: Thanks so much for providing the space to display all those great photographs that Chris Cooper was able to obtain. I have some insight on photo # 8 -- the possible Israeli soldiers. I was corresponding with Earl Parker back in late 98. He sent me some photos and told me a couple of stories. After they filmed the movie TARGET HARRY, Earl, Vic, Jo Lee and a bunch of friends went over to Israel. It seems that it was shortly after that Israeli war that won them their official country of Israel. I can't recall the name of the war but I believe it was in 1967. Hope that helps confirm the location. As we know, Earl was a huge photo buff.

Picture 5 - Vic Morrow and Joanna Lee

Picture 6 - Victor Buono, from "Target: Harry"

Picture 7 - Vic Morrow, Joanna Lee and ???

Picture 8 - Vic Morrow and Suzanne Pleshette (??), from "Target: Harry"

Picture 9 - Vic Morrow and Suzanne Pleshette (??), from "Target: Harry"

Picture 10 - Vic Morrow and Suzanne Pleshette (??), from "Target: Harry"

Picture 11 - Victor Buono, from "Target: Harry"