Alan Parker, a successful and sometimes surprising filmmaker whose diverse output includes Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, and Evita, has died at 76, his family said. Fame was a gritty but celebratory story of life at a performing arts high school; Pink Floyd - the Wall was a surreal rock opera; The Commitments charted the ups and downs of a ramshackle …
LONDON — Filmmaker Alan Parker, one of Britain’s most successful directors whose movies included “Bugsy Malone,” “Midnight Express” and “Evita,” has died at 76, his family said. Parker’s diverse body of work includes “Fame,” Mississippi Burning, “The Commitments and “Angela’s Ashes.” Together his movies won 10 Academy Awards and 19 British Academy Film Awards. “Shoot the Moon” was a family …
Alan Parker, a successful and sometimes surprising filmmaker whose diverse output includes “Bugsy Malone,” “Midnight Express” and “Evita,” has died after a long illness, his family said. A Briton who became a Hollywood heavyweight, Parker also directed “Fame,” “The Commitments” and “Mississippi Burning.” Together his movies won 10 Academy Awards and 19 British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards. …
