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Aug 28, 2020 · Screenwriters Lester and Tina Pine specifically wanted to use Claudine to highlight the broken welfare system. As their son Daniel Pine explained in a 2018 retrospective , “At that time,...
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Together with his late wife, Tina, Pine wrote the 1966 film “A Man Called Adam,” which starred Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong and Mel Torme. The couple also penned “Popi,” which later ...
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Tina and Les Pine were a husband-wife screenwriting team who co-penned scripts for numerous TV series such as CBS-TV's Ben Casey, I Spy (which co-starred Bill Cosby and Robert Culp), ABC's The Big Valley western series, and the long-running NBC-TV series Columbo which starred Peter Falk. The couple also wrote the script for the films A Man Called Adam (1966), which co-starred Sammy Davis, Jr., Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Cicely Tyson and Louis Armstrong, Claudine (1974), and 1981's The Right Track. The couple co-wrote the All in the Family episode titled "Archie and Edith, Alone" in Season 2 of the series.
Les got his start in Hollywood as a comedian before switching to screenwriting in the early 1950's. Future wife Tina, who was born Tina Rome in New York City, began her career as an actress, appearing in bit roles in 1950's Lilith, and 1952's Park Row before switching to screenwriting with future husband Les in the mid 1960's.
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Aug 17, 2001 · With his late wife, Tina, Pine wrote such films as the 1966 “A Man Called Adam” starring Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong and Mel Torme.
Dec 24, 2022 · The story, written by Lester and Tina Pine, features a single mother (Diahann Carroll) living on welfare in Harlem with her children. The film shed light on systemic economic inequality and family life with a light touch and deepened the representation of the Black experience on film at the height of the “ blaxploitation ” era in Hollywood.
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Tina Pine. Writer: Claudine. Tina Pine was born on 31 July 1923 in New York, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Claudine (1974), Popi (1969) and The Baron of Arizona (1950). She was married to Lester Pine. She died on 3 November 1998 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
Lester Aaron "Les" Pine (5 December 1917 – 11 August 2001; age 83) was a television writer hailing from Chicago, who, along with his wife, Tina, wrote an unproduced teleplay based on Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Original Series second season episode "The Omega Glory" in 1967.
