Alan Parker

Info

Role

Director | Actor | Writer

Date of birth

02/14/1944

Date of death

07/31/2020

Place of birth

Islington, London, England, UK

Alan Parker

Biography

The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a photographers' agent), and left CDP to become a full-time director of television commercials before moving onto feature films.

Known For

The Commitments
The Commitments
7.7
7.7
Evita
Evita
6.3
6.3