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Parkes and MacDonald live in Santa Monica, California, and have two children, Jane MacDonald and Graham Joseph. [7] In 2023, Parkes won the Future of Life Award for reducing the risk of nuclear war through the power of storytelling. [8]
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Born April 15, 1951, in Bakersfield, CA; married Laurie MacDonald (a producer); children: Jane MacDonald, Graham Joseph. Education: Yale University, B.A. (cum laude), 1973; Stanford University, M.A., communications.
Film Work:
Producer (with Keith Critchlow), director, cinematographer, and editor, The California Reich(documentary), Intercontinental, 1975. Producer (with Richard Shepherd), Volunteers,TriStar, 1985. Producer (with Lawrence Lasker), Project X,Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987. Producer (with Lasker), True Believer (also known as Fighting Justice), Columbia, 1990. Producer (with Lasker), Awakenings,Columbia, 1990. Producer (with Lasker), Sneakers,Universal, 1992. Executive producer, Little Giants,Warner Bros...
Film Appearances:
Himself, Barry Sonnenfeld's "Intergalactic Guide to Comedy" (documentary shorts), Columbia TriStar Home Video, 2002. Himself, "Catch Me If You Can": Behind the Camera(documentary short), DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2003. Himself, "Catch Me If You Can": The Casting of the Film (documentary short; also known as Cast Me If You Can), DreamWorks Home Entertainment, 2003. Himself, The Making of "Sneakers" (documentary short), Universal Studios Home Video, 2003. (As Walter Parkes) Himself, A Terr...
Television Work; Series:
Creator, Eddie Dodd (also known as True Believer), ABC, 1991. Creator (with Scott Frank) and executive producer, Birdland,ABC, 1994. Executive producer, Men in Black: The Series (also known as Men in Black: The Animated Series), The WB, 1997.
Screenplays:
(With Lawrence Lasker) WarGames,Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1983. (With Lasker) Sneakers,Universal, 1992.
Television Pilots:
The Compass,NBC, 2000.
Television Episodes:
Eddie Dodd,1991. Birdland,ABC, 1994.
Books:
Newsmakers,Issue 1, Gale Group, 2004.
Periodicals:
Forbes,March 3, 2003, p. 86.
Walter F. Parkes. Writer: WarGames. 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.
Born Walter Parkes, c. 1952, in Bakersfield, CA; married Laurie MacDonald, 1983; children: two. Education: Parkes graduated from Yale University, studied documentary film at Stanford.
Walter F. Parkes. Writer: WarGames. 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.
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Walter F. Parkes Biography. Walter F. Parkes (Producer) is one of today's most active motion picture producers, in addition to being the co-head of DreamWorks Pictures with his wife and partner Laurie MacDonald.
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She is married to Walter F. Parkes. MacDonald and Parkes helped build the original DreamWorks SKG, where Parkes served as the head of its motion picture division. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] After their time at DreamWorks, they founded their own production company, Parkes + MacDonald. [6]
