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Alan Parker. Sir Alan William Parker CBE (14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020) was an English film director, screenwriter and producer. His early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements. After about ten years of filming adverts, many of which won awards for creativity, he began ...
Alan Parker. Director: Evita. The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency.
Jun 3, 2024 · Alan Parker, British director, writer, and producer who worked in a wide range of genres; his notable films included Midnight Express (1978), Fame (1980), The Commitments (1991), and Evita (1996). He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1995, and he was awarded a knighthood in 2002.
Alan Parker Director, Writer, Producer. Sir Alan Parker is a director, writer and producer. His feature films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and ten Oscars. His films include Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, Evita, Fame, Birdy, Angel Heart and Angela’s Ashes. He was founding chairman of ...
Alan Parker. Director: Evita. The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a photographers' agent), and left CDP to become a full-time director of television commercials before moving onto feature...
Jul 31, 2020 · Alan William Parker was born on Feb. 14, 1944, in the Islington district of London. He started his career as a copywriter and then moved into making television commercials.
1999 — Angela’s Ashes — Director, Producer, Writer (screenplay from the memoir by Frank McCourt) 2003 — The Life of David Gale — Director, Producer. An Alan Parker Film: A montage of Alan Parker films by Kieron Butler. Filmography 1971 — Melody — Writer (original story and screenplay) 1972 — No Hard Feelings (short) — Director ...
Jul 31, 2020 · By Daniel Arkin. Alan Parker, the versatile British film director whose genre-hopping body of work included the harrowing Turkish prison drama "Midnight Express" and the high-spirited rock comedy ...
