Abby Mann

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Biography

Abby Mann was an American film writer and producer, best known as the author of Judgment at Nuremberg.

  • Primary profession
  • Writer·producer·director
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 01 December 1927
  • Place of birth
  • Philadelphia
  • Death date
  • 2008-03-25
  • Death age
  • 81
  • Place of death
  • Beverly Hills· California
  • Knows language
  • English language

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Awards

Trivia

Adapted his screenplay of Judgment at Nuremberg for a stage production on Broadway, featuring Maximilian Schell , who had won an Academy Award for the 1961 movie version, in a different role.

Died just one day after Richard Widmark , one of the stars of Judgment at Nuremberg .

Attended Temple University and New York University.

His father was a jeweler of Russian Jewish descent.

Had a son.

He became interested in the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, and wrote a script for a television program about it. Subsequently, he was determined to write his first film screenplay about the trials.

After serving in the US Army, he started writing scripts for television dramas.

Won an Emmy and a Writers Guild of America Award for "The Marcus Nelson Murders", the TV pilot which introduced the popular television series "Kojak", and which catapulted Telly Savalas to stardom.

Much of his writing deals with political subjects, notably the machinations of the American judicial system, and with minority groups subjected to prejudice and injustices.

Quotes

I consider the two years I spent in England from 1954 to 1956 to be the,happiest in my life. It was that time when I was able to look at my,life and work with some objectivity and to find out what I really,wanted to say. .

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