He is also noted for producing early Spaghetti Westerns and low-budget science-fiction films, and for his role in actor Dustin Hoffman's transition from stage to screen.
[2] After playing the film producer in his high school's production of Merton of the Movies, he realized this was the profession he would ultimately pursue, calling it his life's ambition.
[6] In 1937, Pink moved to Hollywood and was hired by Grand National Pictures as production budget manager for the Tex Ritter singing cowboy series.
Pink then moved to Columbia Pictures as a budget manager on Lost Horizon and the Jack Holt action films.
After the war, he imported foreign films and produced burlesque shows in downtown Los Angeles with Lili St. Cyr, Joe DeRita and other performers.
The film premiered in late November and started a brief but intense 3-D fad that peaked in mid-1953, faltered in the fall, rallied, then faded away almost completely during 1954.
In 1989, Pink spoke fondly, recalling the opening week, starting November 30, 1952 of Bwana Devil at the Hollywood Paramount Theater.
[8] In 1959, Pink produced The Angry Red Planet, using a new film processing technique he named CineMagic to create an unreal, otherworldly "Martian" effect in some sequences.
Facilities in Denmark, by Hollywood standards, are notably lacking; but fine craftsmen who put everything together by hand are not concerned with the time it takes, (and) are excellent".
Pink also said "the Scandinavian countries have never truly been exploited by Hollywood filmmakers, so the settings have remained unusually fresh ground for motion pictures.
[12] In 1966, Pink discovered Dustin Hoffman in an off-Broadway stage production in New York City and cast him in Madigan's Millions as a U.S. Treasury agent sent to Italy to recover money that had been stolen by a murdered gangster played by Cesar Romero.