Frank Pierson
- Writing
- May 12, 1925 · Chappaqua, New York, USA
- July 23, 2012
Biography
Frank Pierson (May 12, 1925 - July 23, 2012) 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.
Known for
Filmography
- A Star Is Born · Original Film Writer
- The Good Wife · Consulting Producer, Writer
- A Natural Born World-Shaker: The Making of 'Cool Hand Luke' · Self
- The Brothers Warner · Self
- Mad Men · Writer, Consulting Producer
- The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon' · Self
- The L Word · Director
- Paradise · Director
- Soldier's Girl · Director
- Conspiracy · Director, Executive producer
- Dirty Pictures · Director
- Truman · Director
- Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee · Director
- Citizen Cohn · Director
- Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture · Director
- Presumed Innocent · Screenplay
- In Country · Screenplay
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents · Director
- King of the Gypsies · Director, Screenplay
- A Star Is Born · Director, Screenplay
- Dog Day Afternoon · Screenplay
- Amanda Fallon · Writer
- Nichols · Director, Producer
- The Anderson Tapes · Screenplay
- The Neon Ceiling · Director
- The Looking Glass War · Director, Writer
- Cool Hand Luke · Screenplay
- The Happening · Screenplay
- Cat Ballou · Screenplay
- Route 66 · Director
- Have Gun, Will Travel · Director