Gordon Parks

It was about 45 years ago when Caribe was being produced in South Central Florida. By fluke I stumbled over a casting call for talent to perform in an episode of Caribe. I was working at the Fountain Blue Hotel as a Room Clerk. So I took a chance a submitted my head shot to Quinn Martian Productions Office, Miami, FL. When I got the call I wasn’t excited, I could remember driving from Miami, FL to Boca Raton, FL, because it was a long drive from Miami Dade to Boca Raton. But all in all the experience on the Caribe set with Stacy Keach and Carl Franklyn was alright. In those days there was a lot of shot setting up, so it was mostly hurry up and wait for the AD to holler places to the atmosphere talent. A week later I got a call back to work in a Miami base episode in Caribe Head Quarters in a sound stage on downtown converted warehouse of off Key Biscayne. It was a bold venture because it was difficult trying to feature the British elements of police work with their American Miami Police Department, police style and MI 5 type operations. It was gutsy and risky I don’t think it could work even today.