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Walter F. Parkes
Bakersfield, California, USA
Walter F. Parkes (born April 15, 1951) is an American producer, screenwriter, and media executive. The producer of more than 50 films, including the Men in Black series and Minori…
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Walter F. Parkes (born April 15, 1951) is an American producer, screenwriter, and media executive. The producer of more than 50 films, including the Men in Black series and Minority Report, he is the co-founder and co-chairman of Dreamscape Immersive. Parkes and his wife and business partner, producer Laurie MacDonald, helped to build DreamWorks, with Parkes the head of its motion picture division, and the two later moved to Amblin Entertainment, where Parkes served as president. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards, receiving his first nomination as the director/ producer of the 1975 documentary The California Reich; his second for co-writing the original screenplay for WarGames; and his third as a producer of Awakenings. Parkes and MacDonald created the Parkes + Macdonald production company (P+M, P+M Image Nation) in 2010, collaborating on the productions of a number of films, including films that Amblin has released. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter F. Parkes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
Marty, Life Is Short
Movie Self
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2025
She Rides Shotgun
Movie Executive Producer
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2025
Deep Cover
Movie Producer
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2024
Gladiator II
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
My Lady Jane
TV show Executive Producer
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2020
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Movie Executive Producer
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2019
Men in Black: International
Movie Producer
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2018
Free Solo
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
Spielberg
Movie Self
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2017
Tulip Fever
Movie Executive Producer
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2017
The Circle
Movie Producer
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2017
Rings
Movie Producer
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2016
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Movie Producer
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2015
He Named Me Malala
Movie Producer
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2015
The Slap
TV show Writer
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2012
Men in Black 3
Movie Producer
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2012
Flight
Movie Producer
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2010
Dinner for Schmucks
Movie Producer
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2009
The Uninvited
Movie Producer
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2008
The Burning Plain
Movie Producer
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2008
WarGames: The Dead Code
Movie Characters
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2007
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Movie Producer
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2007
The Lookout
Movie Producer
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2005
The Legend of Zorro
Movie Producer
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2005
Just Like Heaven
Movie Producer
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2005
The Island
Movie Producer
- 2005
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2005
The Ring Two
Movie Producer
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2004
Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
Movie Producer
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2004
The Terminal
Movie Producer
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2003
The Making of ‘Sneakers’
Movie Self
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2003
Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Camera
Movie Self
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2002
Catch Me If You Can
Movie Producer
- 2002
- 2002
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2002
The Ring
Movie Producer
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2002
The Tuxedo
Movie Executive Producer
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2002
Road to Perdition
Movie Executive Producer
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2002
Men in Black II
Movie Producer
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2002
Minority Report
Movie Producer
