Film director Pierce Rafferty (born 8 Dec 1952) grew up in Connecticut and moved to New York City in 1982. Some of his relatives include grandfather Marvin Pierce, president and later chairman of McCall Corporation, the publisher of the popular women's magazines

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and McCall's; and an early New England colonist named Thomas Pierce, also an ancestor to

Franklin Pierce Franklin Pierce (November 23, 1804October 8, 1869) was the 14th president of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. He was a northern Democrat who believed that the abolitionist movement was a fundamental threat to the nation's unity ...

, the 14th President of the United States. Pierce attended Phillips Academy Andover and briefly attended Yale University. Pierce and his former spouse, Margaret Crimmins, founded Petrified Films, Inc. in 1984, a pioneering independent stock film footage library that held the Elmer Dyer Film Library, Warner Bros. and Columbia Pictures' feature film outtakes. Pierce spent more than a decade organizing and cataloguing vaults all over NYC that were filled to the ceilings with cans of film. Located in New York City's

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, Petrified licensed archival footage to film, television, and commercial producers before being acquired by

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was later acquired by

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. With his brother

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and Jayne Loader, Pierce made the film '' The Atomic Cafe'' (1982). He is now Director of the Henry L. Ferguson Museum, Fishers Island, New York.

Life and career

*Pierce's company, Petrified Films Inc., sold its collection in 1994 to Image Bank (now owned by

). *Is the nephew of Barbara Bush and first cousins with President George W. Bush.Full text of "Bush, Walker, Pierce, & Robinson Family Tree"-Internet Archive
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Filmography

As Director, Producer: #'' The Atomic Cafe'' (1982) (co-producer) As writer: #'' Heavy Petting'' (1989) Miscellaneous: #''

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'' (1998) (archival footage) #'' Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey'' (1994) (thanks) #''

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'' (1986) (archival film and photo supplier) #'' The Atomic Cafe'' (1982) (archival researcher) #''Target... Earth?'' (1980) (archival researcher)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rafferty, Pierce American entertainment industry businesspeople Film producers from New York (state) Collage filmmakers People from Connecticut Film directors from New York City 1952 births Living people