Walter F. Parkes

Walter F. Parkes was born on Apr 15, 1951 in USA. Walter F. Parkes's big-screen debut came with WarGames directed by John Badham in 1983. Walter F. Parkes is known for The Trial of the Chicago 7 directed by Aaron Sorkin, Eddie Redmayne stars as Tom Hayden and Alex Sharp as Rennie Davis. Walter F. Parkes has got 6 awards and 12 nominations so far. The most recent award Walter F. Parkes achieved is Christopher Awards. The upcoming new movie Walter F. Parkes plays is The Trial of the Chicago 7 which will be released on Oct 16, 2020.

Walter F. Parkes was born on April 15, 1951 in Bakersfield, California. He attended Yale University and it was graduated cum laude in 1973. He made its first film project The California Reich (1975), which was made in 1975.He met Laurie MacDonald in 1982 and the next year, wrote the script for the film WarGames (1983) with Lawrence Lasker, of which received a Best Screenplay Oscar nomination. The success led to a deal with Paramount Pictures, with no films coming out. In 1985, he produced Toujours prêts (1985) with Richard Shepherd, and in 1987 reunited with Lasker on the film Projet X (1987), of which Lasker become a full time partner for four years. Both of them continue its success with Coupable ressemblance (1989), L'éveil (1990) and Les experts (1992). Both of them tried to sign a deal with Columbia when its deal with Paramount ended. Both of them produced the TV show Eddie Dodd (1991) with Clyde Phillips.In 1991, both Lasker and Parkes part ways, in order that Parkes to partner with MacDonald, who left Columbia in the establishment of a production company Aerial Pictures. Aerial had a two year deal at Columbia Pictures, and it was briefly transferred to 20th Century Fox in 1993. Aerial's only product was a little known TV show Birdland (1994) for ABC.In 1993, both Parkes and MacDonald was approached by Steven Spielberg to run Amblin Entertainment, thus completely shuttering Aerial Pictures down. He oversaw production of Les petits géants (1994), Twister (1996) and Men in Black (1997), the latter of which was originated at Aerial.In 1994, Parkes and MacDonald was approached to start up the DreamWorks studio and served as co-heads of film production. He oversaw more than a few films during his tenure, serving his positions as producer or executive producer, like Le pacificateur (1997), Deep Impact (1998), Gladiator (2000), Le Cercle - The Ring (2002) and Les désastreuses aventures des orphelins Baudelaire (2004).In 2005, while Parkes and MacDonald completed production on a few DreamWorks films like The Island (2005) and Et si c'était vrai... (2005), the duo started up Parkes/MacDonald Productions with a deal at DreamWorks. At that time, Parkes and MacDonald produced these leftover projects originated by DreamWorks like The Lookout (2007) and Les Cerfs-volants de Kaboul (2007) as well as Tim Burton's adaptation of Sweeney Todd, le diabolique barbier de Fleet Street (2007), the Asian film remake Les Intrus (2009) and the comedy The Dinner (2010).In 2009, Parkes and MacDonald partnered with Image Nation, and in 2010, signed a television deal with NBCUniversal to produce its television shows. The duo's contributions were the two Men in Black installments: Men in Black 3 (2012) and Men in Black: International (2019), the third installment in the "Ring" franchise, Le Cercle: Rings (2017) and original projects like Flight (2012) and Les espions d'à côté (2016) as well as television shows like Crossbones (2014) and The Slap (2015).In 2016, he was a founding partner and chairman in the virtual reality studio Dreamscape Immersive, with Kevin Wall, Caecila Charbonnier, Sylvian Chaugé and Ronald Menzel.Both Parkes and MacDonald were currently working on future projects like "Gladiator 2" and "Barbie".