Frank Romer Pierson was a Hollywood director and screenwriter, who often has his most famous line of scripted dialog quoted, "What we've got here is a failure to communicate", delivered by the prison warden to the inmate, played by Paul Newman, in Cool Hand Luke (1967)
| Movie | Conspiracy | 2001 |
| Movie | A Star Is Born | 1976 |
| Movie | Truman | 1995 |
| Movie | Citizen Cohn | 1992 |
| Movie | King of the Gypsies | 1978 |
| Movie | Soldier's Girl | 2003 |
| Movie | Somebody Has to Shoot the Picture | 1990 |
| Movie | The Looking Glass War | 1969 |
| Movie | The Neon Ceiling | 1971 |
| Movie | Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee | 1994 |
| Movie | Dirty Pictures | 2000 |
| Movie | Dog Day Afternoon | 1975 |
| Movie | A Star Is Born | 1976 |
| Movie | King of the Gypsies | 1978 |
| Movie | Presumed Innocent | 1990 |
| Movie | The Anderson Tapes | 1971 |
| Movie | The Looking Glass War | 1969 |
| Movie | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 |
| Movie | In Country | 1989 |
| Movie | Cat Ballou | 1965 |
