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Gordon Parks Jr. is a Director born on 7 december 1934

Gordon Parks Jr.

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Birth 7 december 1934
Death 3 april 1979 (at 44 years)

Gordon Roger Parks Jr. est un réalisateur américain né le 7 décembre 1934 et mort le 3 avril 1979, surtout connu pour son film Super Fly, sorti en 1972.

Biography

Né à Minneapolis en 1934, Parks est le fils de Sally Alvis et du photographe et réalisateur Gordon Parks. Le cinéaste en herbe suivit le chemin emprunté par son père qui avait alors réalisé le plus grand succès de l'ère blaxploitation, Shaft, sorti en 1971.

Il fut tué à l'âge de 44 ans, aux côtés de trois autres passagers, quand son avion s'écrasa peu après le décollage près de Nairobi, au Kenya, où il était venu tourner un long-métrage.

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Filmography of Gordon Parks Jr. (3 films)

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Three the Hard Way, 1h33
Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films about racism
Actors Fred Williamson, Jim Kelly, Jay Robinson, Sheila Frazier, Howard Platt, Charles McGregor
Rating61% 3.0988753.0988753.0988753.0988753.098875
Three The Hard Way was released in 1974 and is considered one of the classic action movies of the blaxploitation genre. Directed by the acclaimed Gordon Parks Jr., son of Gordon Parks (Shaft 1971) and director of Super Fly (1972), the film stars the three biggest black action stars of the era; Jim Brown (The Dirty Dozen, El Condor, Slaughter) as record producer Jimmy Lait, Fred Williamson (Black Caesar, Bucktown) as entrepreneur Jagger Daniels, and Jim Kelly (Enter the Dragon, Black Samurai, Black Belt Jones, One Down Two to Go) as martial arts master Mister Keyes.
Thomasine & Bushrod
Directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Max Julien, Glynn Turman, Juanita Moore, George Murdock, Vonetta McGee, Jason Bernard
Rating59% 2.9519652.9519652.9519652.9519652.951965
Vonetta McGee plays Thomasine and Max Julien plays Bushrod in a film intended as a counterpart to the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.
Super Fly
Super Fly (1972)
, 1h33
Directed by Gordon Parks, Gordon Parks, Jr., Gordon Parks Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Musical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs, Gangster films
Actors Ron O'Neal, Sheila Frazier, Carl Lee, Julius Harris, Charles McGregor, John Williams
Rating63% 3.1989453.1989453.1989453.1989453.198945
Priest (Ron O'Neal) is an up-and-coming cocaine dealer in New York City. On his way to a meeting point in Harlem early one morning he is mugged by two junkies. Priest beats one up and gives chase to the other, beating him until he gets the money back. Afterwards, Fat Freddie and Nate Adams, Priest's main dealers, turn up at his apartment to make their payments.