Alan Parker

Cast · Director · Writer

Born

February 14, 1944 · Islington, London, England, UK

Died

July 31, 2020

Birth name

Alan William Parker

The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He formed a partnership with David Puttnam as his producer (Puttnam had been a photographers' agent), and left CDP to become a full-time director of television commercials before moving onto feature films.