UK filmmaker Alan Parker died aged 76 on Friday.
Tributes from across the industry have been paid to filmmaker Alan Parker, who died on Friday (July 31), aged 76.
Former colleagues talked warmly of Parker’s achievements as a filmmaker, his work for public bodies including the BFI and the UK Film Council, his loyalty to friends and his encouragement of young talent.
“Alan was my oldest and closest friend,” said producer David Puttman, Parker’s long-time collaborator with whom he first worked at Collett Dickenson Pearce (Cdp) in what was later called ‘the golden age of advertising’ in the 1960s. “I was...
Tributes from across the industry have been paid to filmmaker Alan Parker, who died on Friday (July 31), aged 76.
Former colleagues talked warmly of Parker’s achievements as a filmmaker, his work for public bodies including the BFI and the UK Film Council, his loyalty to friends and his encouragement of young talent.
“Alan was my oldest and closest friend,” said producer David Puttman, Parker’s long-time collaborator with whom he first worked at Collett Dickenson Pearce (Cdp) in what was later called ‘the golden age of advertising’ in the 1960s. “I was...
- 8/3/2020
- by 57¦Geoffrey Macnab¦41¦
- ScreenDaily
In G2 Arts (13 October), you quote Alan Parker as saying he wrote The Evacuees. Alan Parker would never claim such a thing, so it has to be a mistake. The Emmy-award-winning play was written by the late, great playwright, Jack Rosenthal, at the behest of the late, great head of Granada TV’s drama department, Peter Eckersley, in the days when ideas were suggested, assessed and commissioned. It was Alan’s first TV play as a director and my first TV play as an actress playing her own mother-in-law.
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- 10/14/2015
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
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