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Don Mankiewicz is a Scriptwriter American born on 20 january 1922

Don Mankiewicz

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Birth name Don Martin Mankiewicz
Nationality USA
Birth 20 january 1922
Death 25 april 2015 (at 93 years)

Don Mankiewicz est un scénariste américain, né le 20 janvier 1922 à Berlin (Allemagne) et mort le 25 avril 2015 à Monrovia en Californie.

Biography

Jeunesse
Don Mankiewicz naît à Berlin en 1922 et grandit à Beverly Hills. Il obtient un bachelor's degree de l'université Columbia en 1942 et interrompt ses études pour servir dans le renseignement militaire. L'une se ses nouvelles est publiée par The New Yorker. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le magazine l'engage en tant que rédacteur.


Carrière
Cinéma
Mankiewicz signe le scénario du film Le Procès, adaptation cinématographique de son roman Trial sortie sur les écrans en 1955. Avec Nelson Gidding, il écrit le scénario du film Je veux vivre !. Réalisé par Robert Wise, celui-ci retrace la vie d'une prostituée accusée de meurtre. En 1958, Mankiewicz et Gidding sont nommés pour l'Oscar de la meilleure adaptation cinématographique.


Télévision
Mankiewicz fait partie des scénaristes de la série Playhouse 90. Durant les années 1960, il écrit des scénarios, dont l'épisode pilote, pour les séries télévisées L'Homme de fer et Docteur Marcus Welby. Au cours de sa carrière, il travaille également sur des séries comme Star Trek, Mannix et MacGyver.


Engagement syndical et politique
En 1952, Mankiewicz rejoint la Writers Guild of America, le syndicat des scénaristes américains. Il fait partie de son conseil d'administration durant les années 1990. En 2008, la Writers Guild of America West lui décerne le Morgan Cox Award. Supporter du Parti démocrate, Mankiewicz s'engage en politique à l'échelon local.

Best films

I Want to Live! (1958)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Russell Rouse
Russell Rouse
(2 films)
Timothy Carey
Timothy Carey
(3 films)
Otto Siegel
Otto Siegel
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Don Mankiewicz (8 films)

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Scriptwriter

The Black Bird, 1h50
Directed by David Giler
Genres Comedy
Actors George Segal, Stéphane Audran, Lionel Stander, Lee Patrick, Elisha Cook, Jr., Felix Silla
Rating54% 2.7046452.7046452.7046452.7046452.704645
When San Francisco private detective Sam Spade dies, his son, Sam, Jr., inherits his father's agency, including the sarcastic secretary, Effie Perine (also known as "Godzilla"). He must also continue his father's tradition of "serving minorities." When Caspar Gutman is killed outside Spade's building, his dying words are, "It's black and as long as your arm."
The Chapman Report, 2h5
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Shelley Winters, Jane Fonda, Claire Bloom, Ty Hardin, Glynis Johns, Efrem Zimbalist II
Rating55% 2.753362.753362.753362.753362.75336
Los Angeles psychologist Chapman (Andrew Duggan) and his assistant Paul Radford (Efrem Zimbalist Jr) are looking for volunteers for their sex survey, and four women volunteer: Sarah Garnell (Shelley Winters), a middle-aged woman who is having an affair with young theater director Fred Linden (Ray Danton); Teresa Harnish (Glynis Johns), a happily married woman who becomes attracted to brawny football player Ed Kraski (Ty Hardin); Naomi Shields (Claire Bloom), an alcoholic nymphomaniac who takes up with an unsavory jazz musician; and Kathleen Barclay (Jane Fonda), a young widow who thinks she is frigid.
I Want to Live!, 2h
Directed by Robert Wise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Susan Hayward, Simon Oakland, Theodore Bikel, Virginia Vincent, Wesley Lau, Philip Coolidge
Rating74% 3.7445853.7445853.7445853.7445853.744585
The film tells the story of the life and execution of Barbara Graham (Hayward) a prostitute and convicted perjurer. Graham is the product of a broken home, and works luring men into fixed card games.
House of Numbers, 1h30
Directed by Russell Rouse
Origin USA
Genres Noir, Crime
Themes Films about families, Prison films
Actors Jack Palance, Barbara Lang, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt, Timothy Carey, Joe Conley
Rating63% 3.188663.188663.188663.188663.18866
Arnie Judlow (Jack Palance) is an imprisoned gangster. During a prison visit, Bill Judlow, his law-abiding brother, switches places, allowing himself to be incarcerated as the real criminal walks free. Ruth Judlow (Barbara Lang), wife of one of the Judlow boys, wavers in her loyalties.
House of Numbers
Directed by Russell Rouse
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir, Crime
Themes Prison films, Évasion
Actors Jack Palance, Harold J. Stone, Edward Platt, Barbara Lang, Timothy Carey, Joe Conley
Rating63% 3.188663.188663.188663.188663.18866
Bill et Arnie Judlow (Jack Palance) sont frères jumeaux. Marié à Ruth (Barbara Lang ), Arnie, un ancien boxeur professionnel, tue un homme par jalousie et se retrouve emprisonné à la prison d'État de San Quentin. Son frère et sa femme vont s'unir pour l'aider à s'évader. Dans leurs préparatifs, ils sont repérés par un voisin qui travaille à la prison, Henry Nova (Harold J. Stone), ce qui va compliquer leurs plans.
Trial
Trial (1955)
, 1h45
Directed by Mark Robson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, Dorothy McGuire, John Arthur Kennedy, Juano Hernández, Katy Jurado, John Hodiak
Rating67% 3.39473.39473.39473.39473.3947
Angel Chavez (Rafael Campos) is a Mexican American who lives in the small California town of San Juno. During an annual event called Bass Night held at the town beach, he wanders onto the beach, off-limits to Mexican Americans. There he meets a non-Hispanic girl from his high school class. After she suffers a heart attack and dies, Angel is arrested and charged with murder.
Fast Company, 1h7
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Howard Keel, Polly Bergen, Nina Foch, Carol Nugent, Marjorie Main, Robert Burton
Rating52% 2.623872.623872.623872.623872.62387
Carol Maldon leaves New York to run her recently deceased father's stable. Rick Grayton is the trainer and jockey of her horse Gay Fleet. It is an exceptional horse, but no one yet knows Gay Fleet because it is still young. Rick has been intentionally losing races to make the horse seem inferior so that he can buy it from Carol cheaply. However, he is discovered by Mercedes, a rival stable owner, who tells Rick's plan to Carol.