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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. [1] Life and career. Parks was born to Sally Alvis and photographer and director Gordon Parks in Minneapolis in 1934. [1] .
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Gordon Parks Jr.. Director: 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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- Nairobi, Kenya
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...
Apr 13, 2020 · (There are many others, including Spike Lee, Julie Dash and Parks’s actual son Gordon Parks Jr., the director of the blaxploitation classic “ Superfly ,” who died in a plane crash in...
Director: 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).
- December 7, 1934
- April 3, 1979
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About. 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.
Gordon Roger Parks, Jr. (December 7, 1934 – April 3, 1979) was an American film director best known for the film Super Fly. Parks was the son of Sally Alvis and late photographer and director Gordon Parks. The younger Parks followed in his father's footsteps after his father had success with the blaxploitation hit Shaft.