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Aug 20, 2001 3:14pm PT. Lester Pine. By Doug Galloway. Lester Pine, prolific TV writer and one half of the husband-wife team that wrote such films as “A Man Called Adam,” died Aug. 11 of...
Aug 17, 2001 · Aug. 17, 2001 12 AM PT. Lester Pine, 84, a stand-up comedian of the 1940s who became a television and motion picture writer for such series as “Ben Casey” and such films as “Claudine,” starring...
Lester Pine was born on 5 December 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer, known for Claudine (1974), Popi (1969) and Peter Gunn (1958). He was married to Tina Pine. He died on 11 August 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Writer
- December 5, 1917
- Lester Pine
- August 11, 2001
Claudine is a 1974 American romantic comedy-drama film, directed by John Berry. Claudine was written by Lester Pine and Tina Pine, produced by Third World Cinema, and distributed by 20th Century Fox, starring James Earl Jones, Diahann Carroll, and Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs. [1] .
- $1.1 million
- Hannah Weinstein
Popi is a 1969 American comedy-drama film directed by Arthur Hiller, and starring Alan Arkin (in the title role) and Rita Moreno. The screenplay was written by Tina Pine and Lester Pine. The film focuses on a Puerto Rican widower struggling to raise his two young sons in the New York City neighborhood of Spanish Harlem.
- $2 million (US/ Canada rentals)
- Dominic Frontiere
- Herbert B. Leonard
Producer: Hannah Weinstein Director: John Berry Screenplay: Lester Pine, Tina Pine Cinematography: Gayne Rescher Art Direction: Ben Kasazkow Music: Curtis Mayfield Film Editing: Louis San Andres Cast: Diahann Carroll (Claudine), James Earl Jones (Roop), Lawrence Hilton-Jacques (Charles), Tamu Blackwell (Charlene (as Tamu), David Kruger (Paul ...
Screenwriters Tina Pine and Lester Pine, who were married and had collaborated on episodes for TV series like I Spy, Columbo, and All in the Family, make no bones about the tough realities that Claudine (and so many women like her) face on a daily basis, but at the same time it does not lock her into an unending and inescapable cycle of misery ...
