THE FILMS OF ALAN PARKER

Sir Alan William Parker, CBE (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer and writer. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema and was a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain.

Parker was born into a working class family in Islington, North London, the son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter.[1] He attended Dame Alice Owen's School. Parker started out as a copywriter for advertising agencies in the 1960s and 1970s and later began to write his own television commercial scripts. His most celebrated and enduring advertising work was when he worked for famed London agency Collett Dickenson Pearce where he directed many award winning commercials, including the famous Cinzano vermouth advertisement, starring Leonard Rossiter and Joan Collins, shown in the UK. He graduated from directing advertising commercials to feature films, along with fellow British directors Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Hugh Hudson and Adrian Lyne.

He was knighted in the 2002 New Year Honours. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 2005 of which his longtime associate Lord Puttnam is chancellor. Parker is an Arsenal fan and attends their home games

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