American film director and producer
Pink was based in Puerto Rico in the early 1970s and, after returning to the United States in 1974, he owned movie theaters in Puerto Rico and Florida. He also lived in Madrid, Spain and Denmark where he produced many of the earliest spaghetti westerns.
Discovered Dustin Hoffman in an off-Broadway production, and cast him in "Madigans Millions" as a U.S. Treasury agent sent to Italy to recover money that had been stolen by a murdered gangster played by Cesar Romero.
He was considered the pioneer of 3-D movies, having produced more than 50 of them.
He began his film career as a projectionist in a theater owned by his wifes family.
He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in business administration.
Produced the first widely released feature-length 3-D film, "Bwana Devil," presented in the polarized dual-projector system which became standard for the 1950s 3-D movie craze. The film was shot using two lenses, one for each viewers eye. He went on to produce "The Angry Red Planet ," in which a development technique was used to cast a pink effect across the film, which he named CineMagic.
