What is Alan Parker?
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=February 2018}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = Alan Parker | honorific_suffix = [[CBE]] | image = Alan Parker (Director), London, 2012.jpg | caption = Alan Parker at his [[Soho]] Offices, London, April 2008 | birth_name =Alan William Parker | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1944|2|14}} | birth_place = [[Islington]], London, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2020|7|31|1944|2|14}} | death_place = London, England | death_cause = | resting_place = | nationality = | other_names = | education = [[Dame Alice Owen's School]] | alma_mater = | years_active = 1971-2020 | occupation = {{Plainlist| * Film director * Film producer * Screenwriter * [[Television commercials]] }} | website = {{URL|alanparker.com}} }} '''Sir Alan William Parker''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CBE|size=100%}} (14 February 1944 &ndash; 31 July 2020) was a [[British people|British]] [[movie director]] from [[Islington]], [[London]]. One of his best known movies is ''[[Bugsy Malone]]'' (1975). ==Early years== Parker was born into a working-class family in [[Islington]], [[North London]], the son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/32/Alan-Parker.html|title=Alan Parker profile|publisher=Filmreference.com|access-date=9 April 2012}}</ref> ==Death== Parker died in London on 31 July 2020 at age 76.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/31/movies/alan-parker-versatile-film-director-is-dead-at-76.html|title = Alan Parker, Versatile Film Director, Is Dead at 76|work = [[The New York Times]]|date = 31 July 2020|access-date = 31 July 2020|last = Genzlinger|first = Neil}}</ref> ==Filmography== {{div col|2}} * ''[[Melody (1971 film)|Melody]]'' (1971) (writer only) * ''Our Cissy'' (1974) (short film) * ''Footsteps'' (1974) (short film) * ''[[The Evacuees]]'' (TV, 1975) * ''[[Bugsy Malone]]'' (1976) * ''[[Midnight Express (film)|Midnight Express]]'' (