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Frank Pierson

Writer, Producer, Director, Additional Credits
Born May 12, 1925Died July 23, 2012 (87 years)
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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Cat Ballou
  • Route 66
Known For
  • Dog Day Afternoon
  • Cool Hand Luke
  • Presumed Innocent
  • Conspiracy
  • A Star Is Born
  • Mad Men
  • Cat Ballou
  • Soldier's Girl
  • The Anderson Tapes
  • Have Gun, Will Travel
  • In Country
  • The Good Wife
  • The L Word
  • Truman
  • Citizen Cohn
  • The Looking Glass War
  • King of the Gypsies
  • Dirty Pictures
  • Nichols
  • Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
  • The Happening
  • Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
  • Paradise

Filmography

2018
A Star Is Born · as Original Film Writer
2009
The Good Wife (TV Series)
2007
Mad Men (TV Series)
1990
Presumed Innocent · as Screenplay
1989
In Country · as Screenplay
1980
1978
King of the Gypsies · as Screenplay
1976
A Star Is Born · as Screenplay
1975
Dog Day Afternoon · as Screenplay
1971
Nichols (TV Series)
1971
The Anderson Tapes · as Screenplay
1970
1970
1967
Cool Hand Luke · as Screenplay
1967
The Happening · as Screenplay
1965
Cat Ballou · as Screenplay
1958
Naked City (TV Series)

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