Biography
Sir Alan Parker was a director, writer and producer. His feature films have won nineteen BAFTA awards, ten Golden Globes and ten Oscars. His films include Bugsy Malone, Midnight Express, Mississippi Burning, The Commitments, Evita, Fame, Birdy, Angel Heart and Angela’s Ashes. He was founding chairman of the UK Film Council, a position he held for five years, and prior to that was chairman of the BFI. Sir Alan received the CBE in 1995 and a knighthood in 2002. He was also an Officier Des Arts et ...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Who Killed British Cinema?
2018
as Self
A feature length documentary about the real state of the British film industry in relation to UK structures past, present and currently for the future...

Evita: The Making of a Superstar
2018
as Self
Suzy Klein travels deep into the world of musical theatre, and the colourful landscapes of Argentina, to discover the story of one of the West End's m...

Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach
2016
as Self - Film Director
A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepa...

Dad's Army
2016
Executive Producer
A cinema remake of the classic sitcom Dad's Army (1968). The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German ...

Richard Attenborough: A Life in Film
2014
as Self
The life story of the film director, movie star and industry figure who furthered the cause of cinema: Lord Richard Attenborough.

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
as Self – Interviewee
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first...
Pink Floyd's The Wall: The Ultimate Critical Review
2008
It is now over 25 years since the launch of The Wall. Conceived by Roger Waters as an ambitious double album, a spectacular live show and a ground bre...

100 Films and a Funeral
2007
as Self
This documentary covers the life and death of London-based Polygram Filmed Entertainment.

Michael Powell
2005
The first episode of a new arts documentary program from BBC Scotland was dedicated to Michael Powell in his centenary year. The program interviews ma...

The Commitments - Looking Back
2004
as Self
Documentary about the 1991 film

The Life of David Gale
2003
as Partygoer (uncredited)
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

The Life of David Gale
2003
Producer, Director
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.

It's Black Entertainment
2002
as Self
A star-studded tribute (from the creators of That's Entertainment) to the contributions of Afro-Americans in film over the last century. Vanessa Willi...

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
as Self
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films....

Angela's Ashes
1999
as Dr. Campbell
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prej...

Angela's Ashes
1999
Director, Screenplay, Producer
An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prej...

Retrospective: Looking Back at the Wall
1999
Interviews on the making of Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). Included as a 2-Part special feature on the 1999 and 2005 DVD editions.

Evita
1996
as Tormented Film Director
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator ...

Evita
1996
Screenplay, Director, Producer
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator ...

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996
as Self
An examination of the evolution of commercials as an artistic medium, featuring interviews with media luminaries who relate how the in-your-face styli...

A New Madonna: The Making of 'Evita'
1996
as Self
Documentary about the making of Alan Parker's film adaptation of the stage musical EVITA.

Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
1995
Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British cin...

The Road to Wellville
1994
Director, Producer, Screenplay
An unhappy young couple visit the infamous Kellogg spa in Battle Creek, Michigan while a young hustler tries get into the breakfast-cereal business an...

The Commitments
1991
as Eejit Record Producer
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First h...

The Commitments
1991
Director
Jimmy Rabbitte, just a thick-ya out of school, gets a brilliant idea: to put a soul band together in Barrytown, his slum home in north Dublin. First h...

Come See the Paradise
1990
Director, Writer
In this drama from director Alan Parker, on-the-lam Jack McGurn flees to Los Angeles and takes a job as a projectionist at a movie theater owned by a ...

Mississippi Burning
1988
Director
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where...

Angel Heart
1987
Director, Screenplay
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-...

A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
1986
as Self
Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s Lynn on the m...

A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
1986
Director
Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s Lynn on the m...

Birdy
1984
Director
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and h...

Pink Floyd: The Wall
1982
Director
A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Shoot the Moon
1982
Director
After fifteen years of marriage, an affluent couple divorce and take up with new partners.

The Other Side of the Wall
1982
A behind-the-scenes look at Roger Waters and Alan Parker’s 1982 film, “The Wall”

Fame
1980
Director
A chronicle of the lives of several teenagers who attend a New York high school for students gifted in the performing arts.

Midnight Express
1978
Director
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 y...

Bugsy Malone
1976
Director, Writer
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge ...

No Hard Feelings
1976
Director, Writer
This short feature, an early directing credit for Alan Parker, shows the reality of life during the WWII air raids with none of the traditional 'Blitz...

The Evacuees
1975
Director
The experiences of two young Jewish boys evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool during the Blitz.

Footsteps
1974
Writer, Director
Gemma Jones stars as a woman suffering from hyperacusis, which affects the muscles of the ears. As a result she has become highly sensitive to noise, ...

Our Cissy
1974
Writer, Director
An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the truth about his daughter's suicide.

Melody
1971
Original Story, Screenplay
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
On Location with: FAME
N/A
as Self - Director
A short film about the making of the movie "Fame" (1980)