Gordon Parks Jr.
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Born | Gordon Roger Parks Jr. December 7, 1934 Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
Died | April 3, 1979 Nairobi, Kenya | (aged 44)
Occupation | Film director |
Parent | Gordon Parks (father) |
Gordon Roger Parks Jr. (December 7, 1934 – April 3, 1979) was an American film director, best known for the 1972 film Super Fly.[1]
Life and career
Parks was born to Sally Alvis and photographer and director Gordon Parks in Minneapolis in 1934.[1] The younger Parks followed in his father's footsteps after his father had success with the blaxploitation hit Shaft (1971).
Parks died in 1979 along with three others when their small airplane crashed after takeoff near Nairobi, Kenya, where they had gone to make a film.[2] He was 44 years old.
Filmography
- Super Fly (1972)
- Three the Hard Way (1974)
- Thomasine & Bushrod (1974)
- Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
- The Bushtrackers (1980) (started filming 1979 as Revenge; Gary Strieker finished)
References
- ^ a b Fraser, C. Gerald (April 4, 1979). "Gordon Parks Jr., Film Maker, Dead – Director of 'Super Fly' and Other Black-Oriented Pictures in Plane Crash in Kenya". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-01-31.
- ^ "Filmmaker Gordon Parks; victim of airplane crash", The Day, April 3, 1979.
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