Sidney W. Pink

Trivia

Pink was based in Puerto Rico in the early 1970s and, after returning to the United States in 1974, he owned movie theaters in Puerto Rico and Florida. He also lived in Madrid, Spain and Denmark where he produced many of the earliest spaghetti westerns.

Discovered Dustin Hoffman in an off-Broadway production, 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.

He was considered the pioneer of 3-D movies, having produced more than 50 of them.

He began his film career as a projectionist in a theater owned by his wife's family.

He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in business administration.

Produced the first widely released 3-D film, "Bwana Devil," seen through the now-ubiquitous 2-toned, cardboard glasses. The film was shot using two lenses, one for each viewer's eye. He went on to produce "The Angry Red Planet (1959)," in which a development technique was used to cast a pink effect across the film, which he named CineMagic.