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Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks

Highest Rated:
92% How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (2005)
Lowest Rated:
68% Shaft (2000)
Birthday:
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Birthplace:
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Bio:
African-American filmmaker Gordon Parks had little chance of cracking the all-white Hollywood cinematographers' fraternity in the '50s, despite impeccable credentials as a photojournalist for Life magazine. Parks' entry into feature-length moviemaking came by way of the 1969 adaptation of his own…

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 68% - 92%
Number of Movies: 17
Box Office Since 2001: --
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2008 An Unlikely Weapon: The Eddie Adams Story
  • Actor
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2008 80% An Unlikely Weapon
  • Actor
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2007 Black as Ink
  • Actor
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2005 History Makers: Success
  • Actor
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2005 92% How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company
  • Actor
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2001 Half Past Autumn
  • Filmmaker
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2000 68% Shaft
  • lounge customer
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1991 Gordon Parks: Visions
  • Director
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1984 Solomon Northup's Odyssey
  • Director
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1975 Aaron Loves Angela
  • Director
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1974 The Super Cops
  • Director
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1974 Thomasine and Bushrod
  • Director
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1972 70% Shaft's Big Score!
  • Director
  • Croupier
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1972 90% Superfly
  • Director
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1971 88% Shaft
  • Director
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1969 73% The Learning Tree
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
  • Producer
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Visions
  • Director
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    1. John Shaft: What's my name?
    2. lounge customer: I don't know.
    3. John Shaft: John Shaft!
    4. lounge customer: What?
    5. John Shaft: John Shaft! Say it!
    6. lounge customer: John Shaft!
    From Shaft. Submitted by Zbigniew Z (5 months ago)

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Gordon Parks, Influential Director And Photojournalist, Dead At 93 Opens in new window
March 8, 2006

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