A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Frank R. Pierson
Frank R. Robinson
Frank Romer Pierson
Birthplace:
Chappaqua, New York, USA
Born:
May 12, 1925
Died:
July 23, 2012
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.
Director:
1970 The Looking Glass War
1971 The Neon Ceiling
1976 A Star Is Born
1978 King of the Gypsies
1990 Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
1992 Citizen Cohn
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Truman
2000 Dirty Pictures
2001 Conspiracy
2003 Soldier's Girl
2004 Paradise
Executive Producer:
1970 The Looking Glass War
1971 The Neon Ceiling
1976 A Star Is Born
1978 King of the Gypsies
1990 Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
1992 Citizen Cohn
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Truman
2000 Dirty Pictures
2001 Conspiracy
2003 Soldier's Girl
2004 Paradise
Original Film Writer:
1970 The Looking Glass War
1971 The Neon Ceiling
1976 A Star Is Born
1978 King of the Gypsies
1990 Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
1992 Citizen Cohn
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Truman
2000 Dirty Pictures
2001 Conspiracy
2003 Soldier's Girl
2004 Paradise
2018 A Star Is Born
Screenplay:
1965 Cat Ballou
1967 Cool Hand Luke
1967 The Happening
1970 The Looking Glass War
1971 The Anderson Tapes
1971 The Neon Ceiling
1975 Dog Day Afternoon
1976 A Star Is Born
1978 King of the Gypsies
1989 In Country
1990 Presumed Innocent
1990 Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
1992 Citizen Cohn
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Truman
2000 Dirty Pictures
2001 Conspiracy
2003 Soldier's Girl
2004 Paradise
2018 A Star Is Born
Writer:
1965 Cat Ballou
1967 Cool Hand Luke
1967 The Happening
1970 The Looking Glass War
1971 The Anderson Tapes
1971 The Neon Ceiling
1973 Amanda Fallon
1975 Dog Day Afternoon
1976 A Star Is Born
1978 King of the Gypsies
1989 In Country
1990 Presumed Innocent
1990 Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture
1992 Citizen Cohn
1994 Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
1995 Truman
2000 Dirty Pictures
2001 Conspiracy
2003 Soldier's Girl
2004 Paradise
2018 A Star Is Born
Consulting Producer:
2007 Mad Men
2009 The Good Wife
Creator:
1971 Nichols
2007 Mad Men
2009 The Good Wife
Director:
1957 Have Gun, Will Travel
1960 Route 66
1971 Nichols
1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
2004 The L Word
2007 Mad Men
2009 The Good Wife
Producer:
1957 Have Gun, Will Travel
1960 Route 66
1971 Nichols
1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
2004 The L Word
2007 Mad Men
2009 The Good Wife
Story:
1957 Have Gun, Will Travel
1960 Route 66
1971 Nichols
1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
2004 The L Word
2007 Mad Men
2009 The Good Wife
Writer:
1957 Have Gun, Will Travel
1960 Route 66
1971 Nichols
1985 The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
2004 The L Word
2007 Mad Men
2009 The Good Wife
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Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.