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Walter F. Parkes

Known For
Production

Known Credits
9

Gender
Male

Birthday
April 15, 1951 (75 years old)

Place of Birth
Bakersfield, California, USA

Walter F. Parkes

Biography

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.

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Known For

Production

2025She Rides Shotgun...Executive Producer
2025Deep Cover...Producer
2024Gladiator II...Executive Producer
2024My Lady Jane...Executive Producer
2020The Trial of the Chicago 7...Executive Producer
2019Men in Black: International...Producer
2018Free Solo...Executive Producer
2017Tulip Fever...Executive Producer
2017The Circle...Producer
2017Rings...Producer
2016Keeping Up with the Joneses...Producer
2015He Named Me Malala...Producer
2015The Slap...Executive Producer
2012Men in Black 3...Producer
2012Flight...Producer
2010Dinner for Schmucks...Producer
2009The Uninvited...Producer
2008The Burning Plain...Producer
2007Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street...Producer
2007The Lookout...Producer
2005The Legend of Zorro...Producer
2005Just Like Heaven...Producer
2005The Island...Producer
2005The Ring Two...Producer
2004Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events...Producer
2004The Terminal...Producer
2002Catch Me If You Can...Producer
2002The Ring...Producer
2002The Tuxedo...Executive Producer
2002Road to Perdition...Executive Producer
2002Men in Black II...Producer
2002Minority Report...Producer
2002The Time Machine...Producer
2001A.I. Artificial Intelligence...Executive Producer
2000Gladiator...Executive Producer
1998The Mask of Zorro...Executive Producer
1998Small Soldiers...Executive Producer
1998Deep Impact...Executive Producer
1997Amistad...Executive Producer
1997The Peacemaker...Producer
1997Men in Black...Producer
1996Twister...Executive Producer
1995How to Make an American Quilt...Executive Producer
1995To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar...Executive Producer
1994Little Giants...Executive Producer
1992Sneakers...Producer
1990Awakenings...Producer
1989True Believer...Producer
1987Project X...Producer
1985Volunteers...Producer

Creator

2015The Slap...Creator

Writing

2015The Slap...Writer
2008WarGames: The Dead Code...Characters
1992Sneakers...Screenplay
1983WarGames...Writer

Directing

1975The California Reich...Director

Acting

2026Marty, Life Is Shortas Self
2017Spielbergas Self
2005Strength and Honor: Creating the World of 'Gladiator'as Self
2003The Making of ‘Sneakers’as Self
2003Catch Me If You Can: Behind the Cameraas Self
2002Men in Black II: Barry Sonnenfeld's Intergalactic Guide to Comedyas Self
2002Barry Sonnenfeld's Intergalactic Guide to Comedyas Self
2001Unmasking Zorroas Self
1997The Making of Men in Blackas Self