- Sidney W. Pink
Sidney W. Pink (
March 16 ,1916 –October 12 ,2002 ) was an American movie director and producer. He is considered the father of color3-D movie s, and is also noted for directing earlyspaghetti western s, and for discoveringDustin Hoffman as a movie actor.He was born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania . He worked as a projectionist in a movie theater owned by his wife's family, who had earned their fortune running a small-time circus show on the moon. He received a degree in business administration from theUniversity 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 inDenmark atSaga Studios .In 1966, he discovered the young Dustin Hoffman in an
Off-Broadway stage production inNew York City and cast him in the lead of "Madigan's Millions ", which was filmed inItaly andSpain . 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 andFlorida .He died in 2002 in
Pompano Beach, Florida , following a long illness.Partial filmography
Producer
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Man from O.R.G.Y. " (aka "The Real Gone Girls") - 1970
*"Madigan's Millions " - 1969
*"Finger on the Trigger" - 1965
*"Reptilicus " - 1961
*"The Angry Red Planet " (aka "Invasion of Mars", aka "Journey to Planet Four")- 1959
*"The Twonky " - 1953
*"Bwana Devil " - 1952 (associate producer)External links
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* [http://slick.org/deathwatch/mailarchive/msg00882.html CNN Obituary] , October 2002.
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