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Gordon Parks born this day in 1912.
Photographer, musician, writer and film director, became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography.
Parks was the first African American to produce and direct major motion pictures.
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Films;
• Flavio (1964)
• Diary of a Harlem Family (1968)
• The World of Piri Thomas (1968)
• The Learning Tree (1969)
• Shaft (1971) – Apartment Landlord (uncredited)
• Shaft's Big Score! (1972, director and composer) – Croupier (uncredited)
• The Super Cops (1974)
• Leadbelly (1976)
• Solomon Northup's Odyssey (1984)
• Moments Without Proper Names (1987)
• Martin (1989), PBS presentation of the stage performance of the ballet written about Martin Luther King Jr.
• Shaft (2000) – Lenox Lounge Patron / Mr. P (final film role)
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