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Gordon Parks, Jr. (7 December 1934—3 April 1979) was an American film director best known for the film Super Fly. Events 43 BC - Marcus Tullius Cicero assassinated 1696 - Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. Super Fly is a 1972 Blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks Jr

Son of the late photographer and director Gordon Parks, the younger Parks followed in his father's footsteps after his father had success with the blaxploitation hit Shaft. For the Scottish sports journalist and former footballer see Gordon Parks (footballer Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks ( November 30, 1912 Blaxploitation is a Film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many Exploitation films were made that targeted the urban Shaft is a 1971 American Blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

He was killed with three others when their small airplane crashed on takeoff near Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi (naɪˈroʊbɪ is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north Somalia to the northeast Tanzania to the south

Filmography

External links

Gordon Parks, Jr. via Internet Movie Database
C. Aaron Loves Angela is a 1975 Blaxploitation Film, written by Gerald Sanford and directed by Gordon Parks Jr Three the Hard Way was a 1974 action film starring Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, and Jim Kelly, written by Eric Bercovici Thomasine & Bushrod is a 1974 Blaxploitation Film directed by Gordon Parks Jr Super Fly is a 1972 Blaxploitation film directed by Gordon Parks Jr Gerald Fraser (April 4, 1979). Gordon Parks Jr. , Film Maker, Dead; Director of 'Super Fly' and Other Black-Oriented Pictures in Plane Crash in Kenya. New York Times

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