• Gordon Roger Parks Jr. (December 7, 1934 – April 3, 1979) was an American film director, best known for the 1972 film Super Fly. Parks was born to Sally...
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    Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who...
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    Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr. (March 6, 1927 – October 4, 2004) was an American aerospace engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot, and the youngest...
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  • and film director Gordon Parks Jr. (1934–1979), American director best known for the film Super Fly, son of the above Gordon Parks (footballer) (born...
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    child (Rudy Challenger), and a mobster (Don Diamond). Super Fly (dir. Gordon Parks Jr.) features a soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield. Super Fly is one of the...
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  • Super Fly (1972 film) (category Films directed by Gordon Parks Jr.)
    1972 American blaxploitation neo-noir crime drama film directed by Gordon Parks Jr. and starring Ron O'Neal as Youngblood Priest, an African American...
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  • Three the Hard Way (film) (category Films directed by Gordon Parks Jr.)
    Three the Hard Way is a 1974 action film directed by Gordon Parks Jr., written by Eric Bercovici and Jerrold L. Ludwig, and starring Fred Williamson,...
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  • Aaron Loves Angela (category Films directed by Gordon Parks Jr.)
    American comedy-drama film written by Gerald Sanford and directed by Gordon Parks Jr. It stars Moses Gunn, Kevin Hooks and Irene Cara. A modern adaptation...
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  • Thomasine & Bushrod (category Films directed by Gordon Parks Jr.)
    Thomasine & Bushrod is a 1974 Western film directed by Gordon Parks Jr., written by and starring Max Julien and Vonetta McGee and was released by Columbia...
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  • their performances. Hooks won a role in the last film directed by Gordon Parks, Jr., Aaron Loves Angela (1975). Set in contemporary Harlem at New York's...
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