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Dean Parker was born on 20 August, 1947 in New Zealand, is a New Zealand screenwriter (1947–2020). Discover Dean Parker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Born 20 August, 1947
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1947

Dean Leo Parker (20 August 1947 – 14 April 2020) was a New Zealand screenwriter, playwright, journalist and political commentator based in Auckland.

1969

By 1969 he was living in London, England.

While of mainly Irish ancestry, he knew little of the Irish struggle until The Troubles began that year in Northern Ireland.

Parker joined the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Solidarity Campaign, led by the International Socialists (now known as the Socialist Workers Party), and immersed himself in literature on the Irish struggle.

1970

He continued his involvement with the International Socialists into the early 1970s, attending branch meetings in West London, with his old Napier friend, Blair Peach.

By the late 1970s the SUP had decided to ally with the Labour Party.

1975

By 1975, Parker was back in New Zealand.

Horrified at the election of National Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, Parker joined the pro-Soviet Socialist Unity Party of New Zealand and soon became chairman of its Auckland City Branch.

He was active in the Campaign for an Independent East Timor and played soccer for the Halt All Racist Tours team for a number of years, though the quality of his play was purportedly variable.

1977

In July 1977 he penned the first of many articles on Ireland for the SUP's paper, Tribune.

1978

Parker resigned from the SUP in 1978, though he remained a supporter into the late 1980s.

1979

Peach was later killed while participating in a 1979 anti-National Front rally.

Parker worked as a writer for much of his life and was prominent in his union, the New Zealand Writers Guild.

In 1979 Parker travelled to Northern Ireland, visiting West Belfast and trouble spots such as the Falls Road.

1980

The two also co-created the 1980s trucking series Roche, whose cast included John Bach and Andy Anderson, and goldmining drama Gold, a co-production between New Zealand and Canada.

Parker also worked on episodes of police drama Mortimer's Patch, Betty's Bunch, and documentary Just Slightly, A People Apart: The Irish in NZ.

Returning to New Zealand, Parker helped form H Block/Armagh in 1980/81 as a support group for republican prisoners in Irish jails.

1982

Parker served on the editorial board of the organisation's publication Saoirse from 1982 until its demise in 2000.

1985

The 1985 film centered on two conmen in small town New Zealand, and was adapted from the novel by Ronald Hugh Morrieson.

Parker's theatrical CV included The Feds, Two Fingers From Frank Zappa, and adaptations of Great Expectations, and The Trial.

He also wrote many radio plays, among them Joe Stalin Knew My Father and Engels F: A History of the Ould Sod.

Arguably his best-known television work is Welsh-Kiwi rugby tale Old Scores, which Parker co-wrote with ex All Black triallist and occasional soccer player Greg McGee.

1988

In the socialist journal Sites, No. 16 Autumn 1988, he wrote, "I would describe myself as a class-conscious writer. I'm with Lenin. I'm for the working class seizing control of the wealth it creates, for the replacement of parliament, the army, the police, the judiciary — all those deadly manacles of state control — with workers' committees and militias, and all this done as part of a world-wide struggle ..."

Parker and his partner Isabel lived in Ponsonby, Auckland and had a son.

1990

In 1990 Parker co-directed Shattered Dreams, a documentary on the years leading up to the 1951 Waterfront strike.

Parker contributed regular articles on Irish issues to SUP publications until the party split in 1990.

1991

In 1991 Parker was a member of the Editorial Group of the socialist journal Agenda.

He was also active in the Workers' Charter Movement, a joint project of Socialist Worker, SPA, John Minto's Global Peace and Justice Auckland and Matt McCarten's Unite Union.

He also contributed to the New Zealand Listener and The New Zealand Herald.

Parker was a Marxist–Leninist, and injected his politics into his art.

2005

His plays included Midnight in Moscow — which The Press reviewer Alan Scott called "entertaining and thought-provoking" and "one of his best to date" — 2005's Iraq-set Baghdad, Baby, and an adaptation of Nicky Hager's exposé The Hollow Men.

He won awards in New Zealand for teleplay Share the Dream (starring Joel Tobeck), and co-writing the successful big-screen comedy Came a Hot Friday.

2010

Known for the screenplay of iconic film Came a Hot Friday which he co-wrote with Ian Mune, the television film Old Scores and recent play Midnight in Moscow and was awarded Laureate of the New Zealand Arts Foundation in 2010.

Parker was born in Napier, Hawke's Bay.

He went to school at Napier Marist and St John's College, Hastings.

2020

Parker died on 14 April 2020 aged 72, having finished a stage adaption of Albert Camus' The Plague the previous day.

Selected works produced by Dean Parker over his career are listed below.