Frank Pierson was an American writer, producer and director for film and television, honoured with an Academy Award in the category “Best Writing, Original Screenplay” for the movie “Dog Day Afternoon”. He was a Harvard graduate with an BA in Cultural Anthropology.
Frank Pierson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Frank Pierson |
| Also Know | Frank Romer Pierson, Frank R. Pierson, Frank R. Robinson |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Chappaqua, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1925-05-12 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 87 |
| Deathday | 2012-07-23 |
Frank Pierson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Making of Dog Day Afternoon | 2006-02-28 | Chronicling the making of Dog Day Afternoon… | |
| The Brothers Warner | Himself | 2008-10-16 | An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers–Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies perseverin… |
Frank Pierson Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| King of the Gypsies | Director | 1978-12-20 | Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and hi… |
| Soldier’s Girl | Director | 2003-05-10 | This true story, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His l… |
| Conspiracy | Director | 2001-05-19 | The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the “Final Solution to t… |
| The Looking Glass War | Director | 1969-05-22 | When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrat… |
| Truman | Director | 1995-09-09 | Biographical account of America’s President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman’s rise from small-town nobody to leader of the USA, his decision… |
| A Star Is Born | Director | 1976-12-17 | Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer, Esther Hoffman, after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing… |
| Citizen Cohn | Director | 1992-08-22 | As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves… |
| Dirty Pictures | Director | 2000-05-27 | A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe…. |
| The Neon Ceiling | Director | 1971-02-08 | A housewife and her teenage daughter, fleeing their boring lives, stop in a diner in the California desert. She runs up against the diner’s owner, a g… |
| Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee | Director | 1994-10-16 | Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the in… |
| Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture | Director | 1990-01-01 | Taut thriller about a photographer who races the clock to clear a man about to be executed…. |
| Paradise | Director | 2004-01-01 | Televangelist Bobby Paradise “saw God” in some space debris when he was returning to Earth as an astronaut. Or at least he was convinced he did by his… |
| Director | Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on… | ||
| Director | The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The s… | ||
| Director | A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles…. | ||
| Director | Have Gun – Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated number three or number four i… | ||
| Director | Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictio… | ||
Frank Pierson Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Conspiracy | Executive Producer | 2001-05-19 | The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the “Final Solution to t… |
| Consulting Producer | Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue a… | ||
| Consulting Producer | Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband’s very public sex and political corrup… | ||
| Producer | Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictio… | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Cool Hand Luke | Screenplay | 1967-06-22 | When petty criminal Luke Jackson is sentenced to two years in a Florida prison farm, he doesn’t play by the rules of either the sadistic warden or the… |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Screenplay | 1975-08-01 | Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturale. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turn… |
| Presumed Innocent | Screenplay | 1990-07-26 | Rusty Sabich is a deputy prosecutor engaged in an obsessive affair with a coworker who is murdered. Soon after, he’s accused of the crime. And his fig… |
| King of the Gypsies | Writer | 1978-12-20 | Zharko, leader of the Romanis in NYC, passes his position of leadership on to his unwilling grandson, Dave, leading to infighting between Dave and hi… |
| The Anderson Tapes | Screenplay | 1971-06-17 | Thief Duke Anderson—just released from ten years in jail—takes up with his old girlfriend in her posh apartment block, and makes plans to rob the … |
| Cat Ballou | Screenplay | 1965-06-24 | A woman seeking revenge for her murdered father hires a famous gunman, but he’s very different from what she expects…. |
| In Country | Screenplay | 1989-09-15 | Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also… |
| The Looking Glass War | Writer | 1969-05-22 | When a Polish sailor jumps ship in Britain, a couple of local intelligence operatives keep him under surveillance. Soon, he’s recruited to infiltrat… |
| A Star Is Born | Screenplay | 1976-12-17 | Drunken, has-been rock star John Norman Howard falls in love with unknown singer, Esther Hoffman, after seeing her perform at a club. He lets her sing… |
| A Star Is Born | Original Film Writer | 2018-10-03 | Seasoned musician Jackson Maine discovers — and falls in love with — struggling artist Ally. She has just about given up on her dream to make it b… |
| Amanda Fallon | Writer | 1973-05-04 | A dedicated family doctor tries to help a pregnant teen-ager…. |
| The Happening | Screenplay | 1967-05-17 | A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. How… |
| Writer | Set in 1960-1970 New York, this sexy, stylized and provocative drama follows the lives of the ruthlessly competitive men and women of Madison Avenue a… | ||
| Writer | Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband’s very public sex and political corrup… | ||
| Writer | Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictio… | ||
| Story | Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictio… | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Creator | Nichols is an American Western television series starring James Garner broadcast in the United States on NBC during the 1971-72 season. Set the fictio… | ||
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