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Frank Perry (August 21, 1930 – August 29, 1995) was an American stage and film director, producer and screenwriter.

Perry was born in New York City where as a teenager he began pursuing his interest in the theater with a job as a parking lot attendant for the Westport Country Playhouse in nearby Westport, Connecticut. He would develop his talents to where he produced several plays at Westport then turned for a time to producing television documentaries”…