Abby Mann

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Abby Mann
Born Abraham Goodman
December 1, 1927
Philadelphia
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Beverly Hills, California
Cause of death heart failure
Nationality United States
Ethnicity Jewish
Occupation film writer and producer

Abby Mann (December 1, 1927 – March 25, 2008) was an American film writer and producer.[1]

Life and career

Born to a Jewish family[2] as Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia, he grew up in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants. He was best known for his work on controversial subjects and social drama. His best known work is the screenplay for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), which was initially a television drama which aired in 1959. Stanley Kramer directed the film adaptation, for which Mann received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In his acceptance speech, he said:

"A writer worth his salt at all has an obligation not only to entertain but to comment on the world in which he lives."[3]

Mann later adapted the play for a 2001 production on Broadway, which featured Maximilian Schell from the 1961 film in a different role.[4] In the introduction to the printed script, Mann credited a conversation with Abraham Pomerantz, U.S. Chief Deputy Counsel, for giving him the initial interest in Nuremberg.[5] Mann and Kramer also collaborated on the film A Child is Waiting (1963).

Working for television, he created the television series Kojak, starring Telly Savalas. Mann was executive producer, but was credited as a writer also on many episodes.[6] His other writing credits include the screenplays for the television films The Marcus-Nelson Murders, The Atlanta Child Murders,[7] Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story,[8] and Indictment: The McMartin Trial,[9] as well as the film War and Love.[10] He also directed the 1978 NBC TV miniseries King.

He died of heart failure in Beverly Hills, California on March 25, 2008, aged 80.[11][12] He died one day after Richard Widmark, one of the stars of Judgment at Nuremberg.

His stepson is former Israeli Special Forces operative Aaron Cohen.[13]

Mann is interred in Culver City's Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.

Selected filmography

References

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  4. ↑ Bruce Weber, "On Evil and the Citizen, No Answers Are Easy". The New York Times, March 27, 2001.
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  6. ↑ "'Kojak' (1973)". Internet Movie Database
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  10. ↑ Vincent Canby, "Screen: War and Love". The New York Times, September 13, 1985.[dead link]
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  12. ↑ Obituary - Los Angeles Times[dead link]
  13. ↑ Obituary - New York Times
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