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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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Gordon Rogers Parks, Jr. (1934-1979) was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was the son of Gordon Parks and Sally Parks, and brother to Toni Parks and David Parks. Following in his father's footsteps, Parks Jr. was a photographer and a film director.
Super Fly is a 1972 American blaxploitation neo-noir crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American cocaine dealer who is trying to quit the underworld drug business.
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...
Originally published in 1971, Gordon Parks’s Born Black was the first book to unite his writing and his photography. It was also the first to provide a focused survey of Parks’s documentation of a crucial time for the civil rights and Black Power movements.
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