A former staff writer with the trade paper Film Daily, Brooklyn-born Jack Fier began his screen career working various menial jobs for Nat Levine's Mascot Pictures, the leading independent producer of action serials. He remained with Mascot through the merger that created Republic Pictures before heading over to rival Columbia, where he supervised such chapterplays as The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock (1938) and Overland With Kit Carson (1939), both starring William Elliott. Fier went on to produce numerous Columbia potboilers, including many of the studio's Charles Starrett Westerns, and from 1945 he was mostly credited as production manager. He later functioned as production supervisor on such comedies as How to Murder Your Wife (1965) and Lord Love a Duck (1966).
by Hans J. Wollstein
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