Charles Bryant Pierce (1938 - 2010)

Born 16 Jun 1938 in Hammond, North Township, Lake, Indiana, United States

Died 5 Mar 2010 at age 71 in Erin, Houston, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Charles Pierce is Notable.

Charles Bryant Pierce was born on June 16, 1938 in Hammond, Indiana.^[1][2] He lived most of his life in Hampton, Calhoun County, in the south-central part of Arkansas.^[2][1][3] There he was childhood friends with Harry Thomason, and together they made home made movies in their backyard.^[1]

His first entrance into media entertainment came in the mid-1960s as an art director at KTAL-TV in Shreveport, Louisiana. He later became a weatherman and hosted a children's cartoon show for the station.^[1][4]

Charles made his directorial debut with "The Legend of Boggy Creek," a faux documentary-style film inspired by the sightings of a Bigfoot-like creature in southern Arkansas known as the Fouke Monster.^[1][5] The movie tells the story of a professor and three of his students who camp in the wilderness to find the creature.^[2] He followed up with another southern film like The Town That Dreaded Sundown, based on a true story of the Phantom Killer murders in Texarkana.^[1][6] The movie was released in 1976 and directed and produced by Pierce, with Earl E. Smith as the writer.^[1] It is a horror film that tells the story of the unsolved 1946 case of the Texarkana Moonlight Murders.^[7]

In the 1980s, Charles B. Pierce co-wrote a story with Clint Eastwood for the film Sudden Impact.^[1][4]

Pierce died on March 5, 2010, at Signature Care nursing home in Erin, Tennessee. He was buried at Stewart Memorial Gardens near his home in Dover. He was inducted into the Arkansas Entertainers Hall of Fame in 2010.^[1]ref name='^[4][8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Wikipedia Contributers. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, last edited 6 Mar 2023. "Charles B. Pierce." Accessed 12 Mar 2023.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} IMDbPro Starmeter. (n.d.). "Charles B. Pierce." Accessed 12 Mar 2023.
3. ↑ By The Associated Press, The New York Times, 10 Mar 2010. "Charles B. Pierce, Director of 'Boggy Creek,' Dies at 71." Accessed 12 Mar 2023.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Hendricks, Nancy, Arkansas State University, Encyclopedia of Arkansas, last updated on 28 Feb 2022. "Charles Bryant Pierce (1938–2010)." Accessed 12 Mar 2023.
5. ↑ The Legend of Boggy Creek, (n.d.). "Charles B. Pierce Biography." Accessed 12 Mar 2023.
6. ↑ Hendricks, Nancy, Garland County Historical Society, Encyclopedia of Arkansas, last updated 20 Oct 2020. "Town That Dreaded Sundown." Accessed 12 Mar 2023.
7. ↑ Wright, Craig, Split Tooth Media, 22 Oct 2019. "The Phantom Sound Of Terror: ‘The Town That Dreaded Sundown’ (1976)." Accessed 12 Mar 2023.
8. ↑ Burial: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49384564/charles-b-pierce: accessed 12 March 2023), memorial page for Charles B. Pierce (16 Jun 1938–5 Mar 2010), Find A Grave: Memorial #49384564, citing Stewart County Memorial Gardens, Dover, Stewart County, Tennessee, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.

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• Wikidata: Item Q2801455