What we've got here is a failure to communicate.

During the seventies and early eighties he was a freelance journalist often contributing to magazines such as Playboy and Esquire. Pearce continues to live and write in Fort Lauderdale Florida. Born Donald Mills Pearce in a suburb of Philadelphia Pearce left home at 15.

By this time he was old enough to join the Merchant Marine. The film starred Paul Newman and Pearce made a cameo appearance as a convict named Sailor. He crossed from Canada into the United States where he began a new career - burglary.