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About Don Mankiewicz
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Don Mankiewicz, ‘Ironside’ and ‘Marcus Welby’ writer, 93 BY STEVE CHAWKINS TRIBUNE NEWSPAPERS LOS ANGELES — Don M. Mankiewicz, a novelist and Oscar-nominated screenwriter who grew up in a fabled Hollywood family and went on to create TV’s “Ironside” and “Marcus Welby, M.D.” has died at his home in Monrovia, Calif. He was 93.
Mankiewicz’s death Saturday was caused by congestive heart failure, his son, John Mankiewicz, said.
Don Mankiewicz’s father was Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter behind “Citizen Kane.” His uncle was Joseph L. Mankiewicz, director of “All About Eve” and other classic films.
Don Mankiewicz grew up in Beverly Hills. His parents’ dinner guests included the Marx Brothers and Greta Garbo.
Early in his TV career, Mankiewicz wrote scripts for the drama series “Playhouse 90.” He was assigned to adapt F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Last Tycoon” at least in part because he grew up steeped in its luminous, old-Hollywood setting.
“I was probably the only writer around who had actually seen Fitzgerald in person,” he told TV historian Stephen Bowie in a 2007 oral history.
Don Martin Mankiewicz was born Jan. 20, 1922, in Berlin, where his father was a foreign correspondent. He graduated from Columbia University in 1942. He left law school there to join the Army, serving in military intelligence in France, Belgium and Germany.
After the war, Mankiewicz was a staff writer for the New Yorker, contributed to other magazines and started working in TV. In 1954, he published the novel “Trial” that was made into a film starring Glenn Ford and Dorothy McGuire.
At the same time, he immersed himself in Democratic Party politics. In1952, he lost a race for the New York state Assembly, but he stayed active in local and state politics for years.
In1967, he wrote the pilot for the long-running TV series “Ironside,” starring Raymond Burr as a paraplegic private investigator. Two years later, he did the same for “Marcus Welby, M.D.” He contributed later episodes to both.
Mankiewicz received an Academy Award nomination for his screenplay adaptation of “I Want to Live!,” a 1958 film about a prostitute falsely accused of murder.
Mankiewicz’s survivors include Carol Mankiewicz, his wife since 1972; daughters Jan Diaz and Sandy Perez from his first marriage; son John and daughter Jane from his second marriage; and four grandchildren.
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Don Mankiewicz's Timeline
| 1922 |
January 20, 1922
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Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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| 2015 |
April 25, 2015
Age 93
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Monrovia, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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