{{Short description|American actor and director}} {{Infobox person | name = Arthur Pierson | image = Arthur Pierson, stock actor (SAYRE 8712).jpg | image_size = | caption = Arthur Pierson in 1925 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|06|16|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Oslo, Norway | death_date = {{Death date and age|1975|01|01|1901|06|16|mf=yes}} | death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | resting_place = | occupation = Actor, director | years_active = | spouse = }} '''Arthur Pierson''' (June 16, 1901 &ndash; January 1, 1975) was a Norwegian-born American actor and director. Born in Oslo, he was brought to the United States and raised in Seattle, Washington. He made his Broadway acting debut in 1929 in ''Remote Control''. He continued to appear on stage throughout the 1930s, appearing in plays such as ''Night of January 16th'' (1935) and a Broadway production of ''Othello'' (1937). His last Broadway appearance was in ''The Unconquered'' in 1940.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/106474/Arthur-Pierson |title=Arthur Pierson: Full Biography |first=Hans J. |last=Wollstein |accessdate=June 25, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306205614/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/106474/Arthur-Pierson |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 1932 he took up film acting as well, appearing in Lloyd Corrigan's ''No One Man''. He subsequently appeared in over a dozen movies, usually in minor roles. Among his best-known film roles was Capitano Lorenzo in the Laurel and Hardy comedy ''The Devil's Brother'' (1933). In 1947 he went behind the camera to direct ''Dangerous Years''. He directed two other features, ''The Fighting O'Flynn'' (1949) and ''Home Town Story'' (1951), before turning to television as a director and producer. In his later years he was an executive at animation studio Hanna-Barbera. He died of a heart attack on January 1, 1975, in Santa Monica, California.<ref name="NYT"/><ref>{{cite book |first=Eugene Michael |last=Vazzana |title=Silent Film Necrology |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |year=1995 |isbn=0-7864-0132-X |page=264}}</ref>

==Filmography== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- |1932|| ''No One Man'' || Stanley McIlvaine || |- |1932|| ''Tomorrow and Tomorrow'' || Spike || |- |1932|| ''The Strange Case of Clara Deane'' || Lew Severen || Uncredited |- |1932|| ''Bachelor's Affairs'' || Oliver Denton || |- |1932|| ''Hat Check Girl'' || Felix Cornwall || Uncredited |- |1932|| ''Rackety Rax'' || 'Speed' Bennett || |- |1932|| ''The Golden West'' || Robert Summers || |- |1933|| ''Air Hostess'' || Dick Miller || |- |1933|| ''The Devil's Brother'' || Lorenzo || |- |1933|| ''Ann Carver's Profession'' || Ken Bingham || |- |1933|| ''The Way to Love'' || M. Joe || |- |1933|| ''Before Midnight'' || Dr. David R. Marsh || |- |1934|| ''You Belong to Me'' || Hap Stanley || |- |1934|| ''Murder in the Clouds'' || Jason || |- |1935|| ''Sweet Surrender'' || Nick Harrington || |- |1943|| ''Follies Girl'' || Sgt. Bill Perkins || (final film role) |}

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