Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made “The Legend of Boggy Creek” made him something of a legend himself, has died at the age of 71.
Wayne Anglin of Anglin Funeral Home at Dover, Tenn., said Pierce died Friday at Signature Care nursing home in Dover. A cause of death could not be obtained.
Pierce, a native of Indiana who grew up in Arkansas, made his films mostly in Arkansas, including the cult hit “The Legend of Boggy Creek,” released in 1972.
He grew up at Hampton, Ark., and as an adult lived in nearby Texarkana, where he ran an advertising agency.