which work gave this director his first break in the industry?
Writing and directing advertisements
Alan Parker
By 1968, Parker had moved from copywriting to successfully directing numerous television advertisements. In 1970, he joined Alan Marshall to establish a company to make advertisements. That company eventually became one of Britain's best commercial production houses, winning nearly every major national and international award open to it. Among their award-winning adverts were the UK Cinzano vermouth advertisement (starring Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter), and a Heineken advert which used one hundred actors. Parker credited his years writing and directing adverts for his later success as a film director
who played joey the lips in the commitments Johnny Murphy who directed this film? Alan Parker
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Alan Parker [SEP] 1962–1975: Early work and breakthrough
Parker credited Puttnam with inspiring him and talking him into writing his first film script, "Melody" (1971). By 1968, Parker had moved from copywriting to successfully directing numerous television advertisements. In 1970, he joined Alan Marshall to establish a company to make advertisements. That company eventually became one of Britain's best commercial production houses, winning nearly every major national and international award open to it. Among their award-winning adverts were the UK Cinzano vermouth advertisement (starring Joan Collins and Leonard Rossiter), and a Heineken advert which used one hundred actors. Parker credited his years writing and directing adverts for his later success as a film director: After writing the screenplay for the Waris Hussein film "Melody" in 1971, Parker shot his first fictional film titled "No Hard Feelings" in 1973, for which he wrote the script.