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Alan Parker
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British filmmaker (1944–2020)
Alan Parker was a highly acclaimed British film director who created influential movies across multiple genres from the 1970s through the 2000s. He is remembered as an important figure in British cinema whose distinctive visual style and storytelling shaped popular film during his career.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1944
- Works
- 36
Top works
- La vie de David Gale =
- VICIOUS: TOO FAST TO LIVE
- Bugsy Malone
- The Administration of standards of conduct in local government
- Branding a hotel product
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Film & TV
Directing · Islington, London, England, UK
Sir Alan William Parker (14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020) was 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 the UK Film Council, a position he held for five…
Known for
- Evita: The Making of a Superstar — Self2018
- Who Killed British Cinema? — Self2018
- Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach — Self - Film Director2016
- Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film — Self2014
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self – Interviewee2010
- 100 Films and a Funeral — Self2007
- Rock Milestones: Pink Floyd's The Wall (The Ultimate Critical Review) — Self2007
- Magi-Nation2007
- Michael Powell — Self2005
- The Commitments - Looking Back — Self2004
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1944
- Active to
- 2020
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 44,435
- Total plays
- 241,682
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Alan Parker (born 26 August 1944, in Matlock, Derbyshire) is an English composer and guitarist. He had a successful career as session guitarist starting in the late 1960s, and played with Blue Mink, The Congregation, CCS and Serge Gainsbourg , together with his own studio session bands Hungry Wolf and Ugly Custard. Much of Parker's session work has gone uncredited but recently he has been named as the electric guitarist on Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man and The Walker Brothers's No Regrets. <a href
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
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- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,617x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 18,276x
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Alan William Parker (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 screenwriting and directing films.
Parker was known for using a wide range of filmmaking styles and working in differing genres. He directed musicals, including Bugsy Malone (1976), Fame (1980), Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982), The Commitments (1991) and Evita (1996); true-story dramas, including Midnight Express (1978), Mississippi Burning (1988), Come See the Paradise (1990) and Angela's Ashes (1999); family dramas, including Shoot the Moon (1982), and horrors and thrillers including Angel Heart (1987) and The Life of David Gale (2003).
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