Alan Parker
Highest Rated: 93% Midnight Express (1978)
Lowest Rated: 19% The Life of David Gale (2003)
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.
Photos
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 |
| 85% | 90% | Mississippi Burning | Director | $33.7M | 1988 |
| 82% | 81% | Angel Heart |
Director, Writer |
$14.4M | 1987 |
| 80% | 84% | Birdy | Director | - | 1984 |
| 72% | 89% | Pink Floyd - The Wall | Director | - | 1982 |
| 85% | 75% | Shoot the Moon | Director | - | 1982 |
| 79% | 69% | Fame | Director | - | 1980 |
| 93% | 89% | Midnight Express | Director | - | 1978 |
| 81% | 80% | Bugsy Malone |
Director, Writer |
- | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Evacuees | Director | - | 1974 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84% | 95% | The Twilight Zone | Director | 1962 |