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  1. He was a consultant on Mad Men, co-writing (with Matthew Weiner) the fifth episode of its fifth season, "Signal 30", [6] a member of the teaching staff of Sundance Institute, and artistic director of the American Film Institute . Pierson died on July 22, 2012, in his home in Los Angeles, California. He was survived by his wife Helene and his ...

  2. Frank Romer Pierson, screenwriter, director and producer: born Chappaqua, New York 12 May 1925; married 1948 Polly Stokes (marriage dissolved; one son, one daughter), 1978 Dori Derfner (marriage ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Jul 23, 2012 · Frank Pierson, Former Movie Academy President, Writer and Director, Dies at 87. UPDATED: The Oscar winner for "Dog Day Afternoon" served as head of AMPAS from 2001-05.

  5. Jul 23, 2012 · Frank Romer Pierson was born in Chappaqua, N.Y. His writer mother penned an autobiography, “Roughly Speaking,” that was turned into a 1945 Warner Bros. film of the same name starring Rosalind ...

  6. Frank Pierson (1925-2012) was a writer, director and producer best known for his screenplays for theatrical films such as Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Presumed Innocent (1990) and A Star is Born (1976), and as the director of critically acclaimed movies for television such as Citizen Cohn (1992), Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994), Conspiracy (2001), and Soldier's ...

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