Jameson parker is best known for his role as a j. Young parker also managed to see an inordinate number of boarding schools claiming to have attended 10 in 13 years and. Was born in baltimore maryland on november 18 1947 he is the son of jameson and sydney buchanan née sullivan parker his father had been general legal counsel for the parker family steel mill an investment analyst and government attorney working first with the maryland public expenditure council and later with the united states naval reserve.