Alan Marshall

Alan Marshall born 12 August 1938 is a British film producer In 1967 Marshall was working as a film editor at Signal Films part of EUEScreen Gems in Berwick St London He left to be a commercials producer at Collett Dickenson Pearce CDP In 1970 he and director Alan Parker established an advertising company which brought the pair domestic and international awards Before producing feature films with help from CDP Marshall and Parker started the TVC production company Alan Parker Productions Marshall and Parkers first feature film the 1976 musical Bugsy Malone garnered critical success achieving eight British Academy Award nominations The pair followed their successful feature film debut with the 1978 neonoir drama Midnight Express written by Oliver Stone with David Puttnam joining the producing team The film was nominated for six Academy Awards and took home Oscars for best screenplay and best original score It was also nominated for the Cannes Film Festivals Palme dOr Marshall continued to make his mark as a film producer with critical films including Fame Shoot the Moon and Pink Floyd The Wall After the 1987 film Angel Heart Marshall decided to leave working with Parker to focus on other feature films Marshall has been the producer for other features such as Homeboy Jacobs Ladder Basic Instinct and Hollow Man Description above from the Wikipedia article licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia