Writing

Don Mankiewicz

Born — Died

1922-01-20 — 2015-04-25

Place of birth

Berlin, Germany

Known for

Writing

Credits

13 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

I Want to Live! poster
7.0

Brazen 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

Trial poster
6.9

A 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

The Chapman Report poster
5.1

A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.

The Chapman Report

1962

House of Numbers poster
5.7

Story of twin brothers - one trying to help the other escape from prison.

House of Numbers

1957

Sanctuary of Fear poster
8.0

A 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

Lanigan's Rabbi poster
NR

In 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

Sarge: The Badge or the Cross poster
8.0

After 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

Split Second to an Epitaph poster
9.0

In 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

Rosetti and Ryan: Men Who Love Women poster
10.0

A 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

Marcus Welby, M.D.: A Matter of Humanities poster
10.0

The 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

The Last Tycoon poster
NR

Based off the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same title, a movie producer is slowly working himself to death.

The Last Tycoon

1957

Le Imprese di una Spada Leggendaria poster
10.0

Adaptation of The Three Musketeers

Le Imprese di una Spada Leggendaria

1958

The Big Moment poster
NR

A 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