A strikingly handsome, raspy-voiced former model, Michael Pare began his career in TV, made a couple of unsuccessful high profile features and was relegated to direct-to-video genre fare.  Soon after the series ended, Pare was on the big screen in the leading role of an iconic 1950s rock star in "Eddie and the Cruisers" (1983). He followed as the renegade boyfriend of a kidnapped rock star (Diane Lane) in Walter Hill's unsatisfying "Street of Fire" (1984). Most of Pare's subsequent films have been unspectacular genre fare, many released direct-to-video (e.g., "Moon 44" 1990, "Point of Impact" 1993, "Warriors" 1995). The actor has also been featured in several sci-fi productions filmed in Canada for the Producers Network Association, including "Carver's Gate" (1995) and "The Cusp" (1996). He had a supporting role in a Hollywood production as the doomed husband of a pregnant woman (Linda Kozlowski) in John Carpenter's remake of "Village of the Damned" (1995).