FILM DIRECTOR

Gordon Parks

1912 - 2006

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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gordon Parks has received more than 1,679,917 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Gordon Parks is the 176th most popular film director (up from 1,037th in 2019), the 1,136th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,811th in 2019) and the 44th most popular American Film Director.

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  • 30

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  • 1.68

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Gordon Parks ranks 176 out of 2,041. Before him are Max Ophüls, Guillermo del Toro, Roy Andersson, Genndy Tartakovsky, Nagisa Oshima, and Jacques Rivette. After him are Gillo Pontecorvo, Jerzy Skolimowski, Don Siegel, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Francesco Rosi, and Blake Edwards.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Gordon Parks ranks 53. Before him are Otto Kretschmer, Ghazi of Iraq, Minoru Yamasaki, Patrick White, Lev Gumilyov, and Sonja Henie. After him are Cornel Wilde, Don Siegel, John Payne, Elsa Morante, Pedro Armendáriz, and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker. Among people deceased in 2006, Gordon Parks ranks 49. Before him are Telmo Zarra, P. W. Botha, Nam June Paik, Claude Jade, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, and Steve Irwin. After him are William Styron, Shelley Winters, Gillo Pontecorvo, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Romano Mussolini, and Mariska Veres.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gordon Parks ranks 1,136 out of 20,380. Before him are Ike Turner (1931), Stanley Miller (1930), Willie Nelson (1933), Will Durant (1885), Hugh David Politzer (1949), and Richard Matheson (1926). After him are James Cagney (1899), William Styron (1925), Charles Cooley (1864), George H. Hitchings (1905), Jean Webster (1876), and Paul D. Boyer (1918).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Gordon Parks ranks 44. Before him are Michael Cimino (1939), Jonathan Demme (1944), Frances Marion (1888), Ed Wood (1924), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909), and Joel Schumacher (1939). After him are Don Siegel (1912), Blake Edwards (1922), Kathryn Bigelow (1951), Henry Hathaway (1898), Chris Columbus (1958), and Wes Anderson (1969).

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Filmography

Shaft
Director
Cool black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
Jun 25th 19716.4 / 10
Shaft's Big Score!
Director
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Jun 8th 19726 / 10
The Learning Tree
Director
The story, set in Kansas during the 1920's, covers less than a year in the life of a black teenager, and documents the veritable deluge of events which force him into sudden manhood. The family relationships and enmities, the fears, frustrations and ambitions of the black teenager in small-town America are explored with a strong statement about human values.
Aug 6th 19696.9 / 10