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Alan Parker

Alan Parker

Highest Rated: 90% Midnight Express (1978)

Lowest Rated: 11% Jaws III (1983)

Birthday: Feb 14, 1944

Birthplace: Islington, London, England, UK

From his humble beginnings as an office boy at age 19, Alan Parker worked his way up in the advertising business and began his career in earnest when he and partner Alan Marshall founded a production company to make industrial films and commercials. Between 1969 and 1978, Parker churned out over 500 television commercials, winning every major industry award, while also being cited as an important influence on both fashion and film style of that time. He adeptly used lighting, and his sense of drama as a feature film director has seemed to come as much from his early need to convey a message in 30 seconds as from a sense of pictorial grace.

Filmography

Movies

Credit
78% 80% Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey Self - 2016
19% 81% The Life of David Gale Director,
Producer
$19.6M 2003
52% 81% Angela's Ashes Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$13.0M 1999
64% 68% Evita Director,
Writer,
Producer
$50.0M 1996
39% 44% The Road to Wellville Director,
Screenwriter,
Producer
$6.5M 1994
90% 90% The Commitments Director $13.9M 1991
64% 73% Come See the Paradise Director $850.6K 1990
79% 90% Mississippi Burning Director $33.7M 1988
82% 81% Angel Heart Director,
Writer
$14.4M 1987
84% 83% Birdy Director - 1984
11% 17% Jaws III Music - 1983
73% 89% Pink Floyd - The Wall Director - 1982
86% 75% Shoot the Moon Director - 1982
81% 69% Fame Director - 1980
90% 88% Midnight Express Director - 1978
79% 80% Bugsy Malone Director,
Writer
- 1976
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Evacuees Director - 1974

TV

Credit
92% 96% The Twilight Zone Director 1962