Gordon Parks

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1912-11-30

Deathday 2006-03-07 (93 years old)

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

Known For

Director

1976
Leadbelly

as Director

1974
The Super Cops

as Director

1972
Shaft's Big Score!

as Director

1971
Shaft

as Director

1969
The Learning Tree

as Director

1968
1964
Flavio

as Director

Sound

1972
Shaft's Big Score!

as Original Music Composer

1969
The Learning Tree

as Original Music Composer

Writer

1969
1969
The Learning Tree

as Screenplay

1964
Flavio

as Writer

Crew

1968
Diary of a Harlem Family

as Cinematography

1968
The World of Piri Thomas

as Sequence Lead

Producer

1969
The Learning Tree

as Producer