Charles B. Pierce

Charles B. Pierce
Other names	Charles R. Pierce Charles Pierce Chuck Pierce
Occupation(s)	Director, screenwriter, producer, set decorator, cinematographer, and actor

Charles B. Pierce (born 1938 in Hampton, Arkansas) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, set decorator, cinematographer and actor. Pierce is best known for the minor cult hits The Legend of Boggy Creek and The Town That Dreaded Sundown.

Career

A former Texarkana, Arkansas advertising salesman, Pierce began making low budget films in the early 1970s. His first film, The Legend of Boggy Creek, became a modest hit and grossed approximately $20 million. Pierce continued to make regional films, including a sequel to Boggy Creek entitled Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues in 1985.

In addition to directing, Pierce has starred in several of his own films, including The Town That Dreaded Sundown and Boggy Creek II. He also served as a writer on the 1983 Clint Eastwood film, Sudden Impact.

Pierce fell from the movie industry's public eye shortly after 1985's Boggy Creek II, slipping into relative obscurity until his 1997 interview with Fangoria magazine. Ten years later, in an interview with the Austin Chronicle, film directors Duane Graves and Justin Meeks revealed they were in talks with Pierce to bring him aboard as a co-producer of The Wild Man of the Navidad, their homage to 70's drive-in creature features. He reportedly turned them down because he instead wanted to direct the project, which was later released by IFC Films in 2009.

Selected filmography

Film
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1966	Waco		Set decorator
	An Eye for an Eye		Set decorator
1970	The Strawberry Statement		Set decorator
	The Phantom Tollbooth		Set decorator
	Dirty Dingus Magee		Set decorator
1971	Pretty Maids All in a Row		Set decorator
1972	The Legend of Boggy Creek		Director, cinematographer, producer
1973	Coffy		Set decorator
	Dillinger		Set decorator
1974	Bootleggers	Othar Pruitt	Director, writer, producer
	Black Belt Jones		Set decorator
1975	Winterhawk
1976	The Outlaw Josey Wales		Set decorator
1977	The Town That Dreaded Sundown	Patrolman A.C. Benson	Director, producer
1978	The Cheap Detective		Set decorator
1979	The Triangle Factory Fire Scandal		Set decorator
1983	Sacred Ground		Director, cinematographer
1985	Boggy Creek II: And the Legend Continues	Professor Brian C. "Doc" Lockart	Director, producer, writer
1987	Hawken's Breed	Noel Hickman as an old man	Director, producer, writer
1998	Chasing the Wind		Director
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1966	T.H.E. Cat		Set decorator 1 episode
	Please Don't Eat the Daisies		Set decorator 1 episode
1986	The Ellen Burstyn Show		Set decorator 1 episode
	Fresno		Set decorator Miniseries
1991	MacGyver		Set decorator 8 episodes
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