Gudrun Parker, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Gudrun Parker

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1920

Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Profession: film director

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Gudrun Parker

  • Gudrun Bjerring Parker (born March 16, 1920 in Winnipeg) is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker, writer, producer and a recipient of the Order of Canada.
  • She worked on films with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), during the Second World War and in the early 1950s.
  • Parker wrote the script for The Stratford Adventure, which was nominated for an academy award, and directed part of Royal Journey, which won a BAFTA.She married fellow NFB filmmaker Morten Parker.
  • They often worked as a team on films and in 1963 they established a production company together, Parker Film Associates. While she left the NFB in 1956 to focus on raising her first child Julie, Parker remained active in the filmmaking industry.
  • Her husband travelled to locations and filmed for their production company while she stayed at home producing, editing, and eventually working as a film studies teacher at Vanier College.

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