Sidney W. Pink

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1916-03-06

Deathday 2002-10-12 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Sidney W. Pink

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Sidney W. Pink (March 16, 1916–October 12, 2002) was an American movie director and producer. He is considered the father of color 3-D movies, and is also noted for directing early spaghetti westerns, and for discovering Dustin Hoffman as a movie actor. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After playing the film producer in his high school's production of Merton of the Movies, he first realized this was the profession he would ultimately pursue, calling it his life's ambition. He worked as a projectionist in a movie theater owned by his wife's family. He received a degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh. In 1952, Pink produced Bwana Devil, the first wide-released 3-D movie designed to been seen through the two-toned cardboard glasses. The film was shot using a camera with two lenses. He would go on to produce over 50 3-D movies. In 1959, he produced The Angry Red Planet, using a new development technique he named CineMagic to cast a pink coloration across the screen. In 1961, he did the original story for Reptilicus, which he co-directed and co-produced in Denmark at Saga Studios. In 1966, he discovered the young Dustin Hoffman in an Off Broadway stage production in New York City and cast him in the lead of Madigan's Millions, which was filmed in Italy and Spain. The movie was not released until 1969, however, two years after Hoffman was introduced to the movie-going public in the 1967 movie The Graduate. In the early 1970s Pink owned a chain of movie theaters in Puerto Rico and Florida. He died in 2002 in Pompano Beach, Florida, following a long illness. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sidney W. Pink, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Producer

1970
1969
1968
Madigan's Millions

as Producer

1968
1001 Nights

as Executive Producer

1967
The Bang-Bang Kid

as Producer

1967
1967
1967
Operation Delilah

as Producer

1963
The Castilian

as Producer

1961
Reptilicus

as Producer

1959
1957
Flame Over Vietnam

as Producer

1953
The Twonky

as Associate Producer

Writer

1967
1965
1961
Reptilicus

as Story

1961
Reptilicus

as Screenplay

1959
The Angry Red Planet

as Screenplay

Director

1967
Joe Navidad

as Director

1966
The Tall Women

as Director

1965
1961
Reptilicus

as Director

1953