- Documentary filmmaker.
- Began filmmaking in 1965.
- His wife Jane and himself run a farm in Vermout.
- His father, Julius, ran a silk and textile business where his mother, Anne, sometimes worked.
- Graduated from Brown University in 1960 with a philosophy degree and later added a master's degree in philosophy from Harvard, where he also studied photography. Later taught at Harvard in the 1980s after leaving M.I.T. where he had helped star the film school.
- Pincus left filmmaking in the 1980s and spent almost 30 years operating a flower farm in Vermont. He also became a black-belt instructor of the aikido.
- Ironically, on November 9, the New York Times published a story about Pincus collaborating on a new documentary with Lucia Small, which dealt with the sudden death of her two close friends, as well as with Pincus's own struggles with terminal illness. But this pre-written print article made no mention of Pincus's death, which had occurred just days earlier, on Nov. 5.
- While filming in the South in the 1960s for his film Black Natchez (1967), he met Dennis Sweeney. Sweeney later became increasingly mentally unstable and threatened Pincus and his family to the point where they had moved to Vermont nd ed was commuting to his work in Cambridge, MA. By 1980, Dennis Sweeney had become so unhinged that he killed convicted of a former Democratic congressman Allard Lowenstein in his Manhattan office.
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