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Pierson directed several films produced for television, including Dirty Pictures, Citizen Cohn, Conspiracy, and Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture. His direction on Conspiracy won a Directors' Guild Award for Best Television Movie, and his second Peabody and BAFTA Award.
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.
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 27, 2012 · The death of Frank Pierson has brought the screenwriter out of anonymity, for a moment at least. Pierson wrote (among other films) “Cat Ballou” (1965), “Cool Hand Luke” (1967) and “Dog Day...
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...
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...
