With reference to your frequent letters page contributor, Michael Parker (pictured right), I notice he worked as a film extra.

I always read his letters, mainly about celebrities from the 1960s. I find them very interesting.

As as a letter writer myself, these are the pages I always read first.

Is this the same Michael Parker who ran the Michael Parker Model Agency? I believe it was in Western Road, Brighton.

In the 1960s, I attended the London Academy of Modelling, which was in New Bond Street.

After I finished my course, I was looking for an agent. At the time, my father had a car-repair business in Brighton called GW Harris.

He was repairing a car owned by Michael Parker. He told my father he had a model agency and said he would represent me.

I went to his studio and he took some head shots. A little later he phoned me and said he had a photoshoot for me on the Palace Pier in an advert for Walls ice cream. It was a great morning’s shoot. I never saw the advert but someone told me it was in Woman’s Own.

I didn’t do any more work for Michael Parker, mainly because I had to get, as my dad said, a “proper job”.

I did return to that kind of work in the late 1990s after my daughter and I appeared on the Jim Davidson Generation Game – we have the bendy man to prove it.

I have since appeared on The Bill, EastEnders, Blue Peter, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and numerous films and adverts as a background artist does.

What has puzzled me for years is whether your contributor is the same Michael Parker who gave me my first professional job all those years ago.

Paul-John Harris, Glynde Close, Newhaven