Author, Motion Picture and Television Screenwriter. Born into a Jewish family, his father was famed film screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz ("Citizen Kane" in 1941), Don was born in Berlin, Germany, when his father was serving as a foreign correspondent. He was raised in Beverly Hills and studied at Columbia University, prior to serving with the United States Army during World War II. Following his return home, he landed a position as a staff writer with the publication the New Yorker which led to his television career in 1951. In 1951, he novel "Trial" was published and four-years later (1955), it was made into a motion picture adaptation which starred Glenn Ford. Mankiewicz contributed the screenplay for the film. He penned the story for the picture "House of Numbers" (1957) and received an Academy Award nomination for his writing of the script for the picture "I Want to Live!" (1958). During the 1960s, he was associated with several popular TV programs, as he wrote stories for "Star Trek," "Ironside" and "Marcus Welby, M.D." His younger brother Frank Mankiewicz was a political aid to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Don died of complications from congestive heart failure.
Author, Motion Picture and Television Screenwriter. Born into a Jewish family, his father was famed film screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz ("Citizen Kane" in 1941), Don was born in Berlin, Germany, when his father was serving as a foreign correspondent. He was raised in Beverly Hills and studied at Columbia University, prior to serving with the United States Army during World War II. Following his return home, he landed a position as a staff writer with the publication the New Yorker which led to his television career in 1951. In 1951, he novel "Trial" was published and four-years later (1955), it was made into a motion picture adaptation which starred Glenn Ford. Mankiewicz contributed the screenplay for the film. He penned the story for the picture "House of Numbers" (1957) and received an Academy Award nomination for his writing of the script for the picture "I Want to Live!" (1958). During the 1960s, he was associated with several popular TV programs, as he wrote stories for "Star Trek," "Ironside" and "Marcus Welby, M.D." His younger brother Frank Mankiewicz was a political aid to Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Don died of complications from congestive heart failure.
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