
May 12, 1925 · 101 years old
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.

Three amateur robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice, simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wr...

A laid-back Southern man is sentenced to two years in a rural prison, but refuses to conform.

As a lawyer investigates the murder of a colleague, he finds himself more connected to the crime than anyone else.

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

A young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.

Has-been singing idol John Norman Howard falls in love with young, up-and-coming songstress Esther Hoffman in Frank Pierson's version of the classic love story updated to the rock and roll era.

After ten years in prison to protect a mafia family, Duke Anderson is released and he cashes in a debt of honor with the mob to bankroll a caper.

The true story of the price a young soldier paid for falling in love with a transsexual night-club performer.

A young girl whose father died in the Vietnam War becomes determined to find out more about him and his experiences.

In the criminal and violent world of modern-day Gypsies based in New York City, their 'king' Zharko Stepanowicz passes his leadership to his unwilling grandson, leaving the skipped father resentful.

From the John le Carré novel about a British spy who sends a Polish defector to East Germany to verify missile sites.