Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks was born on Nov 30, 1912 in USA. Gordon Parks's big-screen debut came with The Learning Tree directed by Gordon Parks in 1969. Gordon Parks is known for Leadbelly directed by Gordon Parks, Roger E. Mosley stars as Huddie Ledbetter and James Brodhead as John Lomax. The most recent award Gordon Parks achieved is Image Awards (NAACP). The upcoming new movie Gordon Parks plays is Shaft which will be released on Jun 16, 2000.

The pre-eminent American photojournalist of sub-Saharan descent. An acclaimed photographer for Life magazine from the late 40s through late 60s, he turned to directing films, his second of which, the blaxploitation movie Shaft, les nuits rouges de Harlem (1971), achieved success at the box office. In 1989 his first film effort, Les sentiers de la violence (1969), was selected among the first 25 films so honored, by the U.S. Library of Congress to be preserved in the National Film Registry for all time.