Arthur C. Pierce (September 8, 1923 – November 17, 1987) was an American screenwriter and director specialising in low budget science fiction films.
Pierce, a native of Dallas,[1] enlisted in the US Navy during the Second World War serving as a combat photographer in the Pacific under Edward Steichen.
Following the war, Pierce unsuccessfully attempted to produce a film about US Navy submarines entitled The Silent Service starring Robert Montgomery.
[3] Renowned and typecast for low budget science fiction, Pierce worked his way up to producing and directing The Human Duplicators and Mutiny in Outer Space both without credit.
[citation needed] Pierce's first directorial credits were Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1965) and the non-science fiction The Las Vegas Hillbillys (1966).