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Director. Screenwriter. References. External links. Frank Pierson. Frank Romer Pierson [1] (May 12, 1925 – July 22, 2012) was an American screenwriter and film director. [2] [3] Life and career. Pierson was born in Chappaqua, New York, the son of Louise (née Randall), a writer, and Harold C. Pierson. [1] .
Frank Pierson (1925-2012) was an American film and TV professional who won an Oscar for Dog Day Afternoon (1975). He also wrote and directed other acclaimed works such as Presumed Innocent (1990) and Mad Men (2009-2012).
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Jul 25, 2012 · July 24, 2012. Frank Pierson, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter whose richly textured work included the scripts for “Cool Hand Luke” and “Dog Day Afternoon” and who later became an...
Jul 26, 2012 · Frank Pierson, who has died aged 87, wrote the screenplays for 10 films but his reputation rests on Cat Ballou (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975), all of which gained...
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Jul 24, 2012 · 24 July 2012. Pierson penned the famous line 'Attica!' in Dog Day Afternoon. Frank Pierson, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of the 1975 Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon, has died aged 87. His...
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Jul 25, 2012 · Frank Pierson, who received an Academy Award nomination for his first screenplay, the western lampoon “Cat Ballou,” another Oscar nod for his script of the chain-gang drama “Cool Hand Luke” and...
Jul 23, 2012 · Frank Pierson, the Oscar-winning writer of “Dog Day Afternoon,” former president of the Academy of Motion Pictures & Sciences and a consulting producer on “Mad Men” as recently as this past...
