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Alan Parker
Sir Alan William Parker was an English filmmaker. 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 screenwriting and directing films.
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entertainment · English filmmaker (1944–2020) · screenwriter · film producer · film director · film actor · film editor · director · producer · also Alan Parker, Sir Alan William Parker, Alan William Parker, Sir Alan William Parker CBE, Parker
Born 14 February 1944 · Died 31 July 2020 · Q271284
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2026· 5 entries
“Advertising and business people couldn”
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“Certainly, the two protagonists of Mississippi Burning are white. At that time the film would never have been made if they weren”
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Vocal: Birdy: Alan Parker’s Haunting Portrait of Friendship, Trauma, and the Need to Fly
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The Guardian: ‘We were kids dressed as gangsters, running riot’ – Alan Parker’s Bugsy Malone at 50, by its cast and crew
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2023· 1 entry
Released album “What's Eating Gilbert Grape”.
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2020· 8 entries
The Guardian: Fame star Barry Miller remembers Alan Parker: 'He changed my career, almost instantaneously'
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The Guardian: 'We all felt like the kids from Fame!' Stage stars on Alan Parker's classic
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The Guardian: Sir Alan Parker obituary
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The Guardian: Alan Parker – a life in pictures
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The Guardian: Alan Parker: a maker of glorious films with a gift for connecting with audiences | Peter Bradshaw
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The Guardian: Alan Parker, director of Midnight Express and Bugsy Malone, dies aged 76
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Died 2020-07-31.
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Parker died in London on 31 July 2020 at age 76, following a lengthy illness.
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘Film-making lost its lustre’: how Alan Parker found solace in art
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2016· 1 entry
Released ep “One Summer”.
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2013· 3 entries
Awarded BAFTA Fellowship (2013).
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Received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest honour the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker
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Was awarded the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award "in recognition of outstanding achievement in the art forms of the moving image", which is the highest honour the British Academy can bestow
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2008· 1 entry
Released album “The Catherine Cookson Music Collection Volume 1”.
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2005· 1 entry
Parker received an honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland of which his long-time associate Lord Puttnam is chancellor
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2004· 1 entry
Was the Chairman of the Jury at the 26th Moscow International Film Festival
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “Dramascore”.
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2000· 1 entry
Parker received the Royal Photographic Society Lumière Award for major achievement in cinematography, video or animation
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1999· 1 entry
Was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Directors Guild of Great Britain
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1998· 2 entries
And in 1999 was appointed the first chairman of the newly formed UK Film Council
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Released album “Up on the Roof”.
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for The Commitments (1992).
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And then to producer Lisa Moran, to whom he was married until his death
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1991· 1 entry
Parker directed The Commitments, a comedy about working class Dubliners who form a soul band
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1988· 2 entries
Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Film for Mississippi Burning (1988).
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Released album “A Little Light Relief”.
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1985· 1 entry
The British Academy awarded him the Michael Balcon Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Cinema
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1984· 1 entry
Parker received the BAFTA for Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema, and in 2002 he was knighted for his services to the film industry
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1983· 1 entry
Released album “Sound Stage 13: Accent on Rhythms”.
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1982· 5 entries
Released album “New Angles”.
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Parker directed a film version of the Pink Floyd conceptual rock opera, The Wall, which starred Boomtown Rats frontman Bob Geldof as the fictive rocker "Pink"
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Released album “Sound Stage 8: Guitar Presentation”.
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Released album “Jaws 3-D”.
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Released album “Bel Air”.
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1981· 2 entries
Released album “Airwaves”.
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Released album “Sound Stage 4: Dynamic - Modern Rhythmic Thematic”.
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Direction for Midnight Express (1979).
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1977· 3 entries
Released album “Contemporary Contrasts”.
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Released album “Things to Come”.
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Released album “Guitar Pictures”.
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1976· 2 entries
Released album “The Voice of Soul”.
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Released album “The Sound of Soul”.
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1974· 1 entry
Released album “Hot Ice”.
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1973· 2 entries
Released album “The Rock Machine”.
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Released album “Black Pearl”.
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1972· 3 entries
Released album “9 - 10 - Out”.
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Released album “Flute for Moderns”.
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Released album “The Rhythm of Modern Life / Vaudeville”.
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1971· 3 entries
Parker shot his first fictional film titled No Hard Feelings in 1972, for which he wrote the script
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Released album “Alternatives”.
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Released album “Music for a Young Generation”.
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1970· 4 entries
Released album “Contemporary Guitar”.
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Joined Marshall to establish a company to make advertisements
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Released album “The Guitar Family”.
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Released album “Beat Industrial”.
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1944· 2 entries
Born 1944-02-14.
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“t be at all surprised. Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Caption written for Vogue 1916 Katharine Hepburn delivered a striking performance that ran the gamut of emotions, from A to B. Woollcott writes in While Rome Burns that Parker had”
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