Walter F. Parkes
- Known for
- Production
- Born
- April 15, 1951, Bakersfield, California, USA
- Movies
- 42
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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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | Deep Cover | Producer |
| 2019 | Men in Black: International | Producer |
| 2017 | The Circle | Producer |
| 2017 | Rings | Producer |
| 2016 | Keeping Up with the Joneses | Producer |
| 2015 | He Named Me Malala | Producer |
| 2012 | Men in Black 3 | Producer |
| 2012 | Flight | Producer |
| 2010 | Dinner for Schmucks | Producer |
| 2009 | The Uninvited | Producer |
| 2008 | The Burning Plain | Producer |
| 2007 | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Producer |
| 2007 | The Lookout | Producer |
| 2005 | The Legend of Zorro | Producer |
| 2005 | Just Like Heaven | Producer |
| 2005 | The Island | Producer |
| 2005 | The Ring Two | Producer |
| 2004 | Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events | Producer |
| 2004 | The Terminal | Producer |
| 2002 | Catch Me If You Can | Producer |
| 2002 | The Ring | Producer |
| 2002 | Men in Black II | Producer |
| 2002 | Minority Report | Producer |
| 2002 | The Time Machine | Producer |
| 1997 | The Peacemaker | Producer |
| 1997 | Men in Black | Producer |
| 1992 | Sneakers | Screenplay, Producer |
| 1990 | Awakenings | Producer |
| 1989 | True Believer | Producer |
| 1987 | Project X | Producer |
| 1985 | Volunteers | Producer |
| 1983 | WarGames | Writer |
| 1975 | The California Reich | Director |
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