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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...
Jul 24, 2012 · Obituaries. Frank Pierson dies at 87; Oscar-winning screenwriter. 1 / 45. The onetime headmistress of an elite girls’ school fatally shot Dr. Herman Tarnower, her lover and the creator of the...
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...
Jul 23, 2012 · Frank Pierson, who won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Dog Day Afternoon and was nominated for two Academy Awards for adapted screenplay for Cat Ballou and Cool Hand Luke,...
Jul 24, 2012 · Pierson died Sunday evening atCedars-Sinai Medical Centerin Los Angeles after battling a short illness, said his manager, Susan Landau. He was 87.
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...
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...
