Who is Alan Parker? See Net-worth, Quote, Awards, Fact, Wiki

Alan Parker Wiki Biography

Sir Alan William Parker, Template:Post-nominals (born 14 February 1944) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. The early part of his career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television commercials. After about 10 years doing commercials, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films.Among the different genres Parker has directed have been musicals, including Bugsy Malone (1976), Fame (1980), Pink Floyd – The Wall (1982), The Commitments (1991), and Evita (1996); true-story dramas, including Midnight Express (1978), Mississippi Burning (1988), Come See the Paradise (1990), and Angela’s Ashes (1999); and melodramas, including Shoot the Moon (1982), Angel Heart (1987), and The Life of David Gale (2003).His films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and ten Academy Awards. Parker was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the British film industry and knighted as a Knight Bachelor in 2002. He has been active in both the British cinema and American cinema, along with being a founding member of the Directors Guild of Great Britain and lecturing at various film schools. In 2013 he received the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the highest honour the British Film Academy can give a filmmaker. 

Net Worth $20 Million
Date Of Birth 1944-02-14
Place Of Birth Islington, London, England
Profession Actor
Spouse Annie Inglis
IMDB http://imdb.com/name/nm6178671

You May Also Like

Mike Holmgren’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Mike Holmgren Net Worth: Mike Holmgren is an American former professional football coach who has a net worth of $16 million. Mike Holmgren was born in San Francisco, California in June 1948. He played quarterback for USC and won a national championship. Holmgren was drafted #201 by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1970 NFL Draft. After his playing career did not work out he became the offensive coordinator at Lincoln High School in 1971. Holmgren was the offensive coordinator for Sacred Heart High School from 1972 to 1974 and the assistant coach for Oak Grove High School from 1975 to 1980. He was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for San Francisco State University in 1981 and was the quarterbacks coach at Brigham Young University from 1982 to 1985. Holmgren was the quarterbacks coach of the San Francisco 49ers from 1986 to 1988 and served as the team’s offensive coordinator from 1989 to 1991. He became the head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1992 to 1988 and of the Seattle Seahawks from 1999 to 2008. Holmgren was the team president of the Cleveland Browns from 2010 to 2012. During his coaching career he won a Super Bowl and three NFC Championships.
Read More

James Ellroy’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

James Ellroy Net Worth: James Ellroy is an American crime fiction writer and essayist who has a net worth of $10 million. James Ellroy was born in Los Angeles, California in March 1948. His first novel Brown’s Requiem was published in 1981. Ellroy has become known for his telegrammatic prose style where he often omits connecting words and uses short staccato sentences. He published the novel Clandestine in 1982 and Killer on the Road in 1986. Ellroy authored the Lloyd Hopkins Trilogy which featured Blood on the Moon and Because the Night in 1984 and Suicide Hill in 1985. He authored the L.A. Quartet featuring The Black Dahlia in 1987, the Big Nowhere in 1988, L.A. Confidential in 1990, and White Jazz in 1992. Ellroy published the Underworld USA Trilogy which consisted of American Tabloid in 1995, The Cold Six Thousand in 2001, and Blood’s a Rover in 2009. The first part of the Second L.A. Quarter Perfidia was published in 2014. Ellroy has also published two autobiographies. He has written the movies Cop, L.A. Confidential, Brown’s Requiem, The Black Dahlia, Street Kings, and Rampart. He won a USC Scripter Award for L.A. Confidential.
Read More