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[b]A hotshot in the advertising business, Parker scooped every major industry award, before hooking up with David Puttnam to make 'Bugsy Malone'. [/b]

The musical spoof of gangster films using children, including Jodie Foster, in the lead roles, as well as splatter guns, won Parker a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay.

His second feature, 'Midnight Express', earned six Oscar nominations, including one for himself, won two, and received a BAFTA for Best Direction.

He followed this with the musical, 'Fame', his first US-produced feature, and then arguably his most personal film, 'Shoot the Moon', a detailed examination of the disintegration of a marriage.

The quirky, touching 'Birdy' and the controversial 'Angel Heart' solidified his reputation as a highly visual storyteller, whose palette made use of the soundtrack as well as strong imagery. 'Mississippi Burning', a glossy recreation of a famous civil rights murder case, was followed by farce with 'The Road to Welville', a send-up of American health fadist, John Kellogg.

In 'Pink Floyd: The Wall', he transformed a best-selling rock album into one of the great modern musicals, using animated sequences by Gerald Scarfe. 'The Commitments', for all its high energy and great soul music, fell a bit short of the mark, but 'Evita', starring Madonna, showed Parker back on top - epic, lavish and fascinating.

'Angela's Ashes' was a lachrymose adaptation of Frank McCourt's novel, while Parker showed a return to form, with the anti-death penalty 'The Life of David Gale', with Kevin Spacey.

In 2002, he was knighted in the New Year's Honours List. He received a Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Sunderland in 2005 of which his long time associate Lord Puttnam is chancellor.
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- His sons Alexander Parker and Jake Parker help him out on a lot of his projects.

- He has lectured at film schools around the world.
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Our Cissy (1974)

Footsteps (1974)

The Evacuees (1975) (TV)

Bugsy Malone (1976)

Midnight Express (1978)

Fame (1980)

Shoot the Moon (1982)

Pink Floyd The Wall (1982)

Birdy (1984)

Angel Heart (1987)

Mississippi Burning (1988)

Come See the Paradise (1990)

The Commitments (1991)

The Road to Wellville (1994)

Evita (1996)

Angela's Ashes (1999)

The Life of David Gale (2003)

The Ice At The Bottom Of The World (2007)
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