Gordon Parks

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1912-11-30 (94 years old)

Deathday

2006-03-07

Place of Birth

Fort Scott, Kansas, United States

Gordon Parks

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was a groundbreaking American photographer, musician, poet, novelist, journalist, activist and film director. He is best remembered for his photo essays for Life magazine and as the director of the 1971 film Shaft. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gordon Parks, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Production

1972

Shaft's Big Score!

as Original Music Composer

1972

1971

Shaft

as Director

1969

1974

The Super Cops

as Director

1968

Diary of a Harlem Family

as Cinematography

1969

The Learning Tree

as Screenplay

1969

1976

Leadbelly

as Director

1968

The World of Piri Thomas

as Sequence Lead

1964

Flavio

as Writer

1964

Flavio

as Director

1969

The Learning Tree

as Original Music Composer

1969

1990

Martin

as Director

1984

Solomon Northup's Odyssey

as Original Music Composer

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