Director

Walter F. Parkes

Production

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 53

TMDB ID: 2212

IMDb ID: nm0662748

Known for: Production

Born: April 15, 1951

Age: 74

Place of birth: Bakersfield, California, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1975 - 2025

Years active: 51

Average TMDB rating: 6.68

Wikidata: Q1971768

Also known as

Уолтер Ф. Паркс • Walter Parkes

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Producer (30)Executive Producer (18)Writer (2)Characters (1)Screenplay (1)

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Biography

Walter F. Parkes (born April 15, 1951) is an American producer, screenwriter, and media executive. The producer of more than 50 films, including the Men in Black series and Minority Report, he is the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive. Parkes and his wife and business partner, producer Laurie MacDonald, helped to build DreamWorks, with Parkes the head of its motion picture division, and the two later moved to Amblin Entertainment, where Parkes served as president. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, receiving his first nomination as the director/ producer of the 1975 documentary The California Reich; his second for co-writing the original screenplay for WarGames; and his third as a producer of Awakenings. Parkes and MacDonald created the Parkes + Macdonald production company (P+M, P+M Image Nation) in 2010, collaborating on the productions of a number of films, including films that Amblin has released. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter F. Parkes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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