Writing
Don Mankiewicz
Born — Died
1922-01-20 — 2015-04-25
Place of birth
Berlin, Germany
Known for
Writing
Credits
13 titles
Known for
7.0Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
I Want to Live!
1958
6.9A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
Trial
1955
5.1A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
The Chapman Report
1962
5.7Story of twin brothers - one trying to help the other escape from prison.
House of Numbers
1957
8.0A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
Sanctuary of Fear
1979
NRIn this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by the front entrance of the rabbi's synagogue.
Lanigan's Rabbi
1976
Behind the camera
7.0Brazen perpetual offender Barbara Graham tries to go straight but she finds herself implicated in a murder and sent to death row.
I Want to Live!
1958
6.9A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism.
Trial
1955
5.1A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.
The Chapman Report
1962
5.7Story of twin brothers - one trying to help the other escape from prison.
House of Numbers
1957
8.0A Manhattan priest with a penchant for solving crimes goes to the aid of a young actress. She is becoming enmeshed in a series of bizarre incidents she can't explain, and her complaints to the police have gone ignored.
Sanctuary of Fear
1979
NRIn this pilot film, an Irish Catholic police chief and a Jewish rabbi join together to solve the murder of a housekeeper whose body was discovered by the front entrance of the rabbi's synagogue.
Lanigan's Rabbi
1976
8.0After his wife is murdered, a veteran cop quits the police department and becomes a priest. Several years later he is assigned to a parish where he meets the man who killed his wife -- and discovers that the killer was gunning for him instead. The first of two feature-length pilots for the series "Sarge."
Sarge: The Badge or the Cross
1971
9.0In the second "Ironside" movie, the Chief has his spine jolted during a hospital encounter with a narcotics pusher, not only raising the possibility for an operation that might cure his paralysis but also putting him in jeopardy because he can identify the man who had just shot a guard.
Split Second to an Epitaph
1968
10.0A couple of resourceful, free-wheeling criminal attorneys with an eye for the ladies confront a no-nonsense judge while trying to clear an heiress in the slaying of her husband, although her explanation of a mysterious intruder provides them with a rather weak case.
Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women
1977
10.0The pilot film for the long-run series introduced the kindly small-town general practitioner who, following a mild coronary, grudgingly brings in an independent, motorcycling young associate to help share his workload. Welby's lady friend and his family, part of the plot of this movie, were written out of the subsequent series, with only his medical sidekick, Steven Kiley, and their secretary/nurse, Consuelo, remaining as regulars.
Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities
1969
NRBased off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.
The Last Tycoon
1957
10.0Adaptation of The Three Musketeers
Le Imprese di una Spada Leggendaria
1958
NRA trilogy of individual stories depicting an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different individuals given a chance to live with dignity and self-respect: one, a young thief from Casablanca; another, an immigrant doctor brought to the United States; and the third, a Holocaust survivor.
The Big Moment
1954
