Walter Parkes

Co-Head of Parkes-MacDonald Productions

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Co-head of Parkes-MacDonald Productions, which has produced The Kite Runner and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; Former co-head of Dreamworks, with his wife, Laurie MacDonald

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