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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: September 8, 1923 Death: November 17, 1987 Biography:Arthur C. Pierce was a screenwriter and sometime producer and/or director of science fiction films. He was born in 1923, and became a movie enthusiast while growing up. The Second World War provided his formal introduction to film production -- he served in the United States Navy as a combat cinematographer, earning a Purple Heart in the process, and some of the film he shot was later used in such feature films as The Sands Of Iwo Jima. He also worked under Edward Steichen in preparing the photographic book Power of the Pacific. After the war, he moved to Hollywood, where he wrote a screenplay about US submarine combat in the Pacific during World War II, which was never produced. He took acting lessons with Ben Bard's company, worked in regional and community theater productions, and got what work there was as a cameraman, prop man and the like in smaller film productions. From 1948 through 1951, he... Full Biography
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