He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He worked as a projectionist in a movie theater owned by his wife's family. He received a degree in business administration from the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1952, Pink produced Bwana Devil, the first wide-released 3-D movie designed to been seen through the two-toned cardboard glasses. The film was shot using a camera with two lenses. He would go on to produce over 50 3-D movies. In 1959, he produced The Angry Red Planet, using a new development technique he named CineMagic to cast a pink coloration across the screen.
In 1966, he discovered the young Dustin Hoffman in an Off-Broadway stage production in New York City and cast him in the lead of Madigan's Millions, which was filmed in Italy and Spain. The movie was not released until 1969, however, two years after Hoffman was introduced to the movie-going public in the 1967 movie The Graduate.
Pink never sold his rights to the film, and, even though he professes no comprehension of its success and claims to be eternally ashamed and disappointed by it, it remained a steady income earner for him.
Pink did a final rewrite to produce a shooting script, and the project, to be shot entirely indoors on a tiny 20 X 44 Saga sound stage, lurched forward.
Pink claims her looks were all fabricated with wigs, padding, cotton and adhesive tape, and that one day out of the blue she informed him that if he wanted to screw they should avoid shooting days since she had to get her beauty sleep.
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