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Gordon Roger Parks Jr. (December 7, 1934 – April 3, 1979) was an American film director, best known for the 1972 film Super Fly.
Gordon Parks Jr. was born as Gordon Roger Parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, the son of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Alexander Parks and Sally Alvis. He is best remembered for the successful if controversial crime film "Super Fly" (1972).
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- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Nairobi, Kenya
Parks had four children by his first two wives: Gordon, Jr., David, Leslie, and Toni (Parks-Parsons). His oldest son Gordon Parks, Jr. , whose talents resembled his father's, was killed in a plane crash in 1979 in Kenya , where he had gone to direct a film.
Gordon Parks Jr. was born as Gordon Roger Parks in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, the son of photographer and filmmaker Gordon Alexander Parks and Sally Alvis. He is best remembered for the successful if controversial crime film "Super Fly" (1972).
- December 7, 1934
- April 3, 1979
Apr 4, 1979 · Gordon Parks Jr., a film maker who directed the controversial “Super Fly,” one of the most artistically and financially successful black‐oriented films of the early 70's, died with three other...
Apr 13, 2020 · Bon Duke. IN 1968, 20 YEARS after he was hired as Life’s first African-American staff photographer, Gordon Parks prepared to demolish another color line. “You’re about to become Hollywood’s first...
Feb 4, 2021 · Gordon Parks Jr., via The Gordon Parks Foundation. He never looked down on fashion. Throughout his life, fashion continued to play an important enough part in Parks’s evolution for him to...
