Full Name Dennis Posa | Name Wade Nichols Role Actor | |
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Occupation pornographic and television and film actor, singer Died January 28, 1985, New York City, New York, United States Awards Latin Grammy Award for Best Banda Album Nominations Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year Similar People Jacques Morali, Joan Sebastian, Henri Belolo, Vicente Fernandez, Jon Farriss | ||
Years active 1972-1985 (his death) | ||
Dennis Parker - Like An Eagle (1979)
Dennis Posa, aka Dennis Parker, better known by his performance name of Wade Nichols, (October 28, 1946 – January 28, 1985), was an actor and singer who started his career in adult films.
Contents
- Dennis Parker Like An Eagle 1979
- Canned Heat On The Road Again Wade Nichols edit
- Early life
- Career
- Death
- Filmography
- References
Canned Heat - On The Road Again (Wade Nichols edit)
Early life
Nichols was born in Manhattan, New York and raised in Freeport, New York. He attended the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, studying Pottery and Design. While attending, he won a role in a touring company production of “The Trojan Women.” He later attended New York University and the Herbert Berghof Studio, where he studied Acting.
Career
Nichols' first feature film role was probably in the gay adult film Boynapped! (1975). He subsequently appeared mostly in straight porn films shot in New York, such as Barbara Broadcast, Blonde Ambition, Jail Bait, Maraschino Cherry, Punk Rock, Summer of Laura, Take Off, and Teenage Pajama Party. Posa was credited as Wade Nichols in most of the adult films in which he appeared.
In 1979, using the name Dennis Parker, he recorded a disco album on Casablanca Records entitled Like an Eagle. The album was produced by Village People creator/producer Jacques Morali who was Nichols' boyfriend at the time. He also toured Europe to promote the album. He later appeared in the French film Monique that same year, with Like an Eagle being used as it's theme song. The title track was released as a single and appears on the box set The Casablanca Records Story (1994).
Posa (still as Dennis Parker) joined the cast of the soap opera The Edge of Night in 1979, as Police Chief Derek Mallory.
Seriously ill by October 1984, Posa was unable to continue working on The Edge of Night, and his character was written out of the show. The show was cancelled months later.
Death
Parker died January 28, 1985. In a tribute to Parker in a 1985 issue of Soap Opera Digest, fellow Edge of Night actor Ernie Townsend wrote, "He died in early January after a long and painful illness that took away a talent in its prime." An obituary released in Virginia stated that he died after a "brief illness, survived by his mother, brother, and partner."