Alan Parker net worthy of: Alan Parker can be an English director, maker, and screenwriter who includes a net worthy of of $20 million dollars. Born in Islington, London, England on February 14, 1944, Parker is most beneficial known for directing musicals and movies such as for example Bugsy Malone, Fame, Pink Floyd’ The Wall structure, The Commitments, Evita, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning, Arrive Start to see the Paradise, Angela’s Ashes, Shoot the Moon, Angel Center, and THE LIFE SPAN of David Gale. He attended Dame Alice Owen’s College and provides received nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Academy Awards, and ten Golden Globes. He’s an original person in the Directors Guild of THE UK and was called Commander of the Purchase of the British Empire in 1995 for his film initiatives. He released Bugsy Malone in 1975, which feature only kid actors and poked fun at early American gangster lifestyle. He worked for manufacturers David Puttnam and Alan Marshall whom ultimately influenced Parker to create the script for Melody and would afterwards produce many of his movies. Parker’s initial film, No Hard Emotions, had become in 1973. He started employed in television advertising rather than enrolling in university. He gained the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award in 2013 via the British Film Academy. He was afterwards knighted at the 2002 New Calendar year Honours in Australia and provided an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland.
Known for movies
Evita (1996) as Director
Angel Heart (1987) as Director
Mississippi Burning (1988) as Director
The Life of David Gale (2003) as Director
Quick Facts
Full Name
Alan Parker
Net Worth
$20 Million
Date Of Birth
February 14, 1944
Profession
Screenwriter, Film producer, Film director, Actor, Copywriter, Television Director
Education
Dame Alice Owen's School
Nationality
English
Spouse
Annie Inglis (m. 1966–1992), Lisa Moran
Children
Jake Parker, Alexander Parker
Parents
Elsie Ellen, William Leslie Parker
Awards
BAFTA Fellowship, BAFTA Award for Best Film, Cannes Grand Prix, BAFTA Award for Best Direction, BAFTA Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award, Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, National Board of Review Award for Best Director, National Board of Review Award for Best Film, BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay, British Academy Television Award for Best Single Play
Music Groups
CCS, The Congregation, Move Move Move, Frozen Steam, Hot Pants
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Director, Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture, BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, César Award for Best Foreign Film, David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film, Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film, British Academy Television Award for Best Single Documentary
Movies
Angel Heart, Midnight Express, Pink Floyd – The Wall, The Commitments, Mississippi Burning, Bugsy Malone, Fame, The Life of David Gale, Evita, Birdy, Angela's Ashes, Shoot the Moon, The Road to Wellville, Come See the Paradise, Melody, The Evacuees, Our Cissy, No Hard Feelings, Footsteps, British Cinema: Personal View - A Turnip Head's Guide To The British Cinema
Considers Oliver Stone as his strong antagonist since their collaborations on Midnight Express (1978). Parker even declined several times to give him WGA credits for his previous work on Evita (1996), but finally agreed to do so after a long deliberation with WGA's law representatives.
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991
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Has published several collections of film industry-related cartoons, including "Hares in the Gate" (1983).
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In an interview for The Road to Wellville (1994), Parker stated that his mission as a filmmaker was to make at least one movie for each genre available.
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He was a founding member of the Directors' Guild of Great Britain and has lectured at film schools around the world.
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Writes the press kit annotations for journalists at advance screenings himself. Has done so since 1981.
Appointed a C.B.E. in 1995 and knighted in the 2002 New Year's Honours List. Now known as Sir Alan Parker.
Trademarks
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Trademark
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His films often have a dark, noirish look to them. They are often lit in very dark colors.
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Films based on True Stories
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Graphic and Brutal depiction of Violence
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Musical
Quotes
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Quote
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[in a January 1988 interview] It's not my job to make you comfortable in the cinema.
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[on how he wrote his first screenplay Melody (1971)] I hadn't really thought about writing a screenplay at the time. I hadn't started directing, except for a few commercials in the basement of the agency where I worked. I was quite happy in advertising and had some success as a copywriter, so to get a film made of my script was as much a surprise as a thrill. (...) David Puttnam and Charles Saatchi (colleagues at the CDP ad agency) took me to lunch in Soho (Central London). They leaned across (the table), conspiratorially, and said, "Alan, we're thinking of going into film, and today we are going to discover you." I said, "Why are you discovering me? Why can't I discover you?" The plan was for me to write a script, and Charles to write a script, and Puttnam would attempt to sell them. I had never written anything longer than 30 seconds at the time, and so it was a shock when it got financed. Puttnam had obtained the rights to seven The Bee Gees songs from Robert Stigwood. This was 1969, and pre-Saturday Night Fever (1977)/falsetto Bee Gees - and so I wrote the script around the songs. There is a lyric in the song "The First of May" that went, "When we were small, and Christmas trees were tall, we used to love while others used to play," and I framed the story around that thought, mixed in with memories of my own childhood growing up in North London, mixed with a few memories from Puttnam. The film was mostly financed by Edgar M. Bronfman. Apparently his 16-year-old son, Edgar Bronfman Jr., read the script and recommended that his father make the movie. Edgar Jr. was also a production runner on the film. (...) It wasn't a big hit except, curiously, in Japan. I still get letters from fans of the film in Tokyo and Osaka. Creatively, it got us all started. Up to this point, I had no intentions of a film career, but on "Melody," I directed a small second-unit sequence, which was used, so probably I was bitten by the film bug then. Creatively, it has had an impact on other directors, as I have had many overtures, over the years, to remake it. Wes Anderson acknowledged that his film Moonrise Kingdom (2012) was inspired by "Melody." [Variety 2015]
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[on Bugsy Malone (1976)] I had four young children and we used to go to a cottage in Derbyshire at weekends. On the long, boring car journey up there, I started telling them the story of a gangster called Bugsy Malone. They'd ask me questions and I'd make up answers, based on my memories of watching old movie reruns as a kid. I'd won a Bafta for a Play for Today, "The Evacuees", for the BBC in 1975. Now I was trying to get into movies. The British film industry was flat: nobody would finance my scripts because they were too "parochial". So I wrote an American film, choosing to fuse two classic Hollywood genres: the musical and the mob. It was my son Alex who said: "Can the heroes be kids?" I'd done plenty of adverts with children, but a feature film is a logistical nightmare: the legal constrictions, schooling, minimal hours allowed "under the lights". But I was just starting out. I was fearless and a bit naive. For casting, I lugged a video camera all over America, and even went to US airforce bases in the UK. We recorded almost 100 school Christmas shows and saw almost 10,000 kids. In a Catholic school in Brooklyn, I asked: "Who's the most badly behaved kid in the class?" Thirty kids pointed to one chubby little boy at the back. "Cassisi!" they screamed. John Cassisi put his hands up and smiled. Although he had never acted before, he yelled out lines from script with gusto. I knew right away we had our Fat Sam. Jodie Foster, who played his moll Tallulah, had made more films than I had, so probably knew more about film-making. She was 13 but had been acting since she was three, and had just filmed Taxi Driver (1976). She got on well with the cast, and certainly wasn't aloof, which she had every right to be. I suspect she relished being surrounded by kids for once, as she had spent her professional life surrounded by adults. Although Scott Baio, our Bugsy, was perfectly behaved on set, he was probably a handful for the chaperones. Each morning, he'd regale us with the antics from the night before. A starchy version of Cinderella was shooting at Pinewood at the same time we were there. Its makers constantly complained that our mini-gangsters were running up and down the corridors, terrorising the Cinderella cast in their crinolines and powdered wigs. The film was quite successful in the UK, but not in the US. Over the years, when I've done retrospectives, I've never included it, as I didn't think it fitted with the rest of my work. But curiously, as I get older, I realise it still looks modern. It hasn't dated. I'm rather proud of it. [2015, The Guardian]
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[meeting an unknown Paul Thomas Anderson at a parking lot after an event at the USC film school] As I pulled away I could see in my mirror a young man chasing after me, waving a videotape. He ran alongside, banging at the window. I stopped, wound down the window, and he thrust the videotape through the window saying he'd made a short film and really wanted me to look at it. The short was The Dirk Diggler Story (1988), which I looked at and thought was quite brilliant.
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Every time I've been to Cannes, I've made up my mind never to return. Every time my vanity wins over.
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Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult. Particularly within the Hollywood machine. They've allowed more stars to take over and it can make everyone else's life a misery. But the truth is the actors are doing their job just the same as the camera assistant and the costume designer and everybody else.
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I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, "Back to North London".
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I was once described by one of my critics as an aesthetic fascist.
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Mississippi Burning (1988)
1988
Saturn Award
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
Best Writing
Angel Heart (1987)
1985
Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival
Birdy (1984)
1982
Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival
Shoot the Moon (1982)
1981
BAFTA Film Award
BAFTA Awards
Best Direction
Fame (1980)
1981
César
César Awards, France
Best Foreign Film (Meilleur film étranger)
Fame (1980)
1979
Oscar
Academy Awards, USA
Best Director
Midnight Express (1978)
1979
Golden Globe
Golden Globes, USA
Best Director - Motion Picture
Midnight Express (1978)
1979
DGA Award
Directors Guild of America, USA
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures
Midnight Express (1978)
1978
Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival
Midnight Express (1978)
1977
BAFTA Film Award
BAFTA Awards
Best Direction
Bugsy Malone (1976)
1976
Palme d'Or
Cannes Film Festival
Bugsy Malone (1976)
3rd Place Awards
3rd place awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
Award shared with
1978
LAFCA Award
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Director
Midnight Express (1978)
Filmography
Director
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Life of David Gale
2003
Angela's Ashes
1999
Evita
1996
Madonna: You Must Love Me
1996
Video short
The Road to Wellville
1994
The Commitments
1991
Come See the Paradise
1990
Renegade MTV Special
1990
TV Movie
Mississippi Burning
1988
Angel Heart
1987
Birdy
1984
Pink Floyd: Hey You
1982
Short
Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982
Shoot the Moon
1982
Fame
1980
Midnight Express
1978
No Hard Feelings
1976
TV Movie
Bugsy Malone
1976
The Evacuees
1975
TV Movie
Our Cissy
1974
Short
Footsteps
1974/I
Short
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Angela's Ashes
1999
screenplay
Evita
1996
screenplay
The Road to Wellville
1994
screenplay
Come See the Paradise
1990
written by
Angel Heart
1987
screenplay
No Hard Feelings
1976
TV Movie screenplay
Bugsy Malone
1976
written by
Our Cissy
1974
Short
Footsteps
1974/I
Short
Melody
1971
original story and screenplay
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Evita
1996
producer: "A Cinema in Buenos Aires, 26 July 1952", "Requiem for Evita", "Oh, What a Circus", "On This Night of a Thousand Stars", "Eva and Magaldi", "Eva Beware of the City", "Buenos Aires", "Another Suitcase in Another Hall", "Goodnight and Thank You", "The Lady's Got Potential", "Charity Concert", "The Art of the Possibles", "I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You", "Hello and Goodbye", "Peron's Latest Flame", "A New Argentina", "On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada 1", "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina",
Madonna: You Must Love Me
1996
Video short music: "You Must Love Me" / producer: "You Must Love Me"
The Road to Wellville
1994
lyrics: "Where The Spirits Soar"
Come See the Paradise
1990
lyrics: "Jack's Theatre Song" / writer: "Kawamura Family Theme"
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
1982
writer: "Time Goes By"
Wanda Whips Wall Street
1981
writer: "You're A Winner" - uncredited
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Dad's Army
2016
executive producer - as Sir Alan Parker
The Life of David Gale
2003
producer
Angela's Ashes
1999
producer
Evita
1996
producer
Madonna: You Must Love Me
1996
Video short producer
The Road to Wellville
1994
producer
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Life of David Gale
2003
Partygoer (uncredited)
Angela's Ashes
1999
Dr. Campbell
Evita
1996
Tormented Film Director
The Commitments
1991
Eejit Record Producer
Midnight Express
1978
Long-Haired Man at Airport (uncredited)
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Evita
1996
music producer
Madonna: You Must Love Me
1996
Video short music producer
Editor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Renegade MTV Special
1990
TV Movie
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Side by Side
2012
Documentary special thanks - as Sir Alan William Parker
The Man Who Married Himself
2010
Short very special thanks
St. Trinian's
2007
very special thanks
Boot Polish
2007
Short very special thanks
36 pasos
2006
spiritual support
Waiting for Sunrise
2005
Short very special thanks
The Commitments: Looking Back
2004
Video documentary special thanks
The Making of Alan Parker's Film 'The Commitments'
1991
TV Movie documentary special thanks
Hellraiser
1987
grateful acknowledgment
Metropolis
1927
special thanks - 1984 restoration
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Alan's Ashes: A Personal Reflection on the Making of Angela's Ashes
2016
Video documentary short
Himself
Show Jana Krause
2016
TV Series
Himself
Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016
Documentary
Himself - Film Director (as Sir Alan Parker)
Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
Documentary
Himself
The British Film Industry: Elitist, Deluded or Dormant?
2014
Documentary
Himself
Film '72
2013
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee
The Art of Cinematography at Plus Camerimage
2013
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The EE British Academy Film Awards
2013
TV Special
Himself
Living the Life
2012
TV Series
Himself
Ad Men
2012
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
2012
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Hollywood's Best Film Directors
2010
TV Series
Himself - Interviewee / Film Director
Xposé
2010
TV Series
Himself
The 7th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards
2010
TV Special
Himself - Award Presenter (as Sir Alan Parker)
David Lean in Close-Up
2009
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Dark Side of Fame with Piers Morgan
2008
TV Series documentary
Himself
Newsnight
2008
TV Series
Himself
Timeshift
2004-2008
TV Series documentary
Himself - Film Director and Former Copywriter / Himself
100 Films and a Funeral
2007
Documentary
Himself
Movie Connections
2007
TV Series documentary
Himself
The 100 Greatest Family Films
2005
TV Movie documentary
Himself (as Sir Alan Parker)
Breakfast
2005
TV Series
Himself
Artworks Scotland
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself (interviewed)
Comme au cinéma
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself (Interview)
The 2nd Meteor Ireland Music Awards
2005
TV Special
Himself (as Sir Alan Parker)
The Commitments: Looking Back
2004
Video documentary
Himself
1st Annual Directors Guild of Great Britain DGGB Awards
2004
Video
Himself - Presenter
Freedom2speak v2.0
2004
Documentary
Himself - Director, Great Britain
After They Were Famous
2003
TV Series documentary
Himself
The 100 Greatest Musicals
2003
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Kelly
2003
TV Series
Himself
Frids film
2003
TV Series
Himself
Sen kväll med Luuk
2003
TV Series
Himself
Charlie Rose
2003
TV Series
It's Black Entertainment
2002
TV Special documentary
Himself
The Men from the Agency
2002
TV Movie documentary
Himself
I Love 1980's
2001
TV Series documentary
Himself
There's Only One Madonna
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Fading Images
2001
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
Documentary
Himself
Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall
2000
Video documentary
Himself
Bravo Profiles
2000
TV Series documentary
Himself
The 100 Greatest TV Ads
2000
TV Special
Himself
Arena
2000
TV Series documentary
Himself
Retrospective: Looking Back at the Wall
1999
Video documentary
Himself
Our Vera
1999
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Film Futures 2000
1999
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The World's Best Sellers: The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1998
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Magacine
1997
TV Series
Himself
The Directors
1997
TV Series documentary
Himself
Omnibus
1997
TV Series documentary
Face to Face
1997
TV Series
Himself
The 54th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1997
TV Special
Himself - Winner & Nominee
100 Years of Horror: Witchcraft and Demons
1996
Video documentary
Himself
Power Vision - Pop Galerie
1996
TV Series documentary
Himself
Showbiz Today
1996
TV Series
Himself
A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'
1996
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Lights, Camera, Action!: A Century of the Cinema
1996
TV Mini-Series documentary
Himself
Hola Susana
1995
TV Series
Himself - Guest
A Personal History of British Cinema by Stephen Frears
1995
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Moviewatch
1995
TV Series documentary
Himself - Interviewee
Cinema 3
1995
TV Series
Himself
Moving Pictures
1993
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Making of Alan Parker's Film 'The Commitments'