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Writer, director and producer Frank Pierson’s credits include Oscar-nominated Cat Ballou (1965) and Cool Hand Luke (1967), the Oscar-winning Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and Presumed Innocent (1990), The Neon Ceiling (1971), Looking Glass War (1969), A Star is Born (1976), King of the Gypsies (1978), Citizen Cohn (1992), and Paradise (2004) are among his directing credits.
Jul 24, 2012 · Frank Pierson Obituary. LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Oscar-winning screenwriter of "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Cool Hand Luke" has died. Frank Pierson's family says he died of natural causes Monday in Los ...
This lecture is in honor of Frank C. Pierson '34, who joined the College faculty in 1940 and taught for 39 years, chairing the Department of Economics from 1967 until his retirement in 1979. Professor Pierson was a distinguished scholar of labor economics as well as an arbitrator of industrial disputes and provided an important voice for moderation and tolerance on campus during the late 1960s ...
Feb 1, 2016 · Peters eventually ended up as producer (with Streisand credited as Executive Producer), and brought in Frank Pierson, who had won an Oscar® for his script for Dog Day Afternoon (1975), to make the screenplay edgier. Pierson rewrote A Star is Born (1976) and also ended up directing the film, his first feature as director. Kris Kristofferson was ...
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 ...
Added: Jul 23, 2012. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 94083704. Source citation. Motion Picture and Television Screenwriter, Director, Producer. He was associated with several Academy Award caliber pictures. Born to Harold C. Pierson and Louise Pierson, his mother was a screenwriter, his parents' lives were recounted in the 1945 motion picture Roughly ...
Jul 24, 2012 · Frank Pierson won an Oscar for his 1975 screenplay; Also wrote "Cool Hand Luke," "A Star is Born"
