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Alan Parker, director of Midnight Express and Evita, dies at 76 – Sydney Morning Herald
One of Britain’s most successful directors, Parker’s movies won 10 Academy Awards and 19 British Academy Film Awards.
He moved into television with critically acclaimed 1974 drama The Evacuees, which won an international Emmy Award.
The next year he wrote and directed his first feature, Bugsy Malone, an unusual and exuberant musical pastiche of gangster films with a cast of children, including a young Jodie Foster.
He followed that with Midnight Express, the story based on an American’s harrowing incarceration in a Turkish prison. It won two Oscars and gained Parker a best-director nomination.
Parker ranged …
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