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Frank Romer Pierson (May 12, 1925 – July 22, 2012) was an American screenwriter and film director.
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- 1944–2012
- American
- May 12, 1925, Chappaqua, New York, U.S.
Jul 25, 2012 · Frank Pierson, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter whose richly textured work included the scripts for “Cool Hand Luke” and “Dog Day Afternoon” and who later became an influential...
Frank Pierson was born on 12 May 1925 in Chappaqua, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Presumed Innocent (1990) and Cool Hand Luke (1967). He was married to Helene Szamet, Dori Pierson and Polly Stokes.
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- Chappaqua, New York, USA
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
Jul 24, 2012 · Frank Pierson, who won an Oscar for his screenplay of the 1975 Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon, has died aged 87. His family said he died of natural causes at a Los Angeles hospital after a...
Jul 24, 2012 · 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 famous...
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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...
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...
