Gordon Parks
Born: 1912-11-30 in Fort Scott, Kansas, United States
Died: 2006-03-07
Known For: Directing
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
Filmography
2005
2002
- BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
2000
- Shaft as Lenox Lounge Patron
- Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks as Self
1999
- Paul Robeson: Here I Stand as Self
1996
- All Power to the People! as Self
1992
- Lincoln as Henry H. Garnet (voice)
1990
- Martin ... (Director)
1987
- Moments without Proper Names as Self
1984
- Solomon Northup's Odyssey ... (Director)
1976
- Leadbelly ... (Director)
1974
- The Super Cops ... (Director)
1973
1972
- Shaft's Big Score! ... (Original Music Composer)
1971
- Shaft ... (Director)
- Soul in Cinema: Filming 'Shaft' on Location as Self
1969
- The Learning Tree ... (Director)
- My Father: Gordon Parks as Self
- The Moviemakers as Self
1968
- The World of Piri Thomas ... (Sequence Lead)
- Diary of a Harlem Family as Narration
1964
- Flavio ... (Writer)