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Gordon Parks Jr., one of Parks’ four children, who directed “Superfly” and three other films, died in a 1979 plane crash. Parks is survived by son David, daughters Toni and Leslie and ...
Gordon Roger Parks Jr. (December 7, 1934 – April 3, 1979) was an American film director, best known for the 1972 film Super Fly. [1] Life and career. Parks was born to Sally Alvis and photographer and director Gordon Parks in Minneapolis in 1934. [1] .
Mar 8, 2006 · Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director, died Tuesday, his family said.
Mar 14, 2018 · CNN — He photographed fashion for Vogue, directed the 1971 blaxploitation film “Shaft,” composed orchestral scores, and wrote memoirs, novels and poems. But it was with his sensitive, insightful...
The greatest loss for Parks, the father of four, was the death of his older son, Gordon Jr., the director of "Superfly," killed in a plane crash while on location in Africa in 1979.
Mar 3, 2006 · NEW YORK (AP) -- Gordon Parks, who captured the struggles and triumphs of black America as a photographer for Life magazine and then became Hollywood's first major black director with "The Learning Tree" and the hit "Shaft," died Tuesday, a family member said. He was 93.
Gordon Parks. Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, 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.
