07-24-2012, 06:12 AM
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R.I.P. Frank Pierson.
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Frank Pierson, who won an Academy Award for best original screenplay for Dog Day Afternoon and was nominated for two Academy Awards for adapted screenplay for Cat Ballou and Cool Hand Luke, died Monday in Los Angeles of natural causes following a short illness.
More recently, Pierson served as president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Science from 2001-05.
He was 87.
Pierson was currently working as writer and consulting producer on Mad Men and had served the same duties on several episodes of The Good Wife.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...bituary-353052
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