Another James Bond legend is gone. This is sad news as his scripts were genuinely funny and his voice really fit the Bond and Superman films of their eras.
From M16: The Home of James Bond:
Thomas Francis Mankiewicz was born into a successful cinematic family on 1st June 1942, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Joseph (of German descent), was the successful screenwriter behind “All About Eve” and was already an Oscar winner by the time Tom was born.
Joseph moved his family to New York on the birth of his son. The young Tom Mankiewicz attended Phillips Exeter School in New Hampshire and later, the prestigious Yale University in Connecticut, where he majored in Drama. Whilst studying he found work on a few token productions, including “Comancheros”, the 1961 John Wayne western. By 1963 (aged 21), Tom entered the workforce full time as assistant to Lawrence Turman, the would-be producer of...
From M16: The Home of James Bond:
Thomas Francis Mankiewicz was born into a successful cinematic family on 1st June 1942, in Los Angeles, California. His father, Joseph (of German descent), was the successful screenwriter behind “All About Eve” and was already an Oscar winner by the time Tom was born.
Joseph moved his family to New York on the birth of his son. The young Tom Mankiewicz attended Phillips Exeter School in New Hampshire and later, the prestigious Yale University in Connecticut, where he majored in Drama. Whilst studying he found work on a few token productions, including “Comancheros”, the 1961 John Wayne western. By 1963 (aged 21), Tom entered the workforce full time as assistant to Lawrence Turman, the would-be producer of...
- 8/5/2010
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Screenwriter from a Hollywood dynasty best known for his work on James Bond
For most film buffs, the name Mankiewicz immediately recalls Joseph L, the director and screenwriter of All About Eve (1950). For others, it evokes that of his older brother, Herman J, most celebrated as the writer of the screenplay of Citizen Kane. However, Joseph L's son, Tom Mankiewicz, who has died of cancer aged 68, is cherished by James Bond fans as the screenwriter of Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), as well as having worked on rewrites of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
At the beginning of his career, Mankiewicz admitted that he probably got work because of his father. "You suddenly started to realise that people were asking you because it was you," he explained. Unlike his father's best films – literate, dialogue-based vehicles – when a director called...
For most film buffs, the name Mankiewicz immediately recalls Joseph L, the director and screenwriter of All About Eve (1950). For others, it evokes that of his older brother, Herman J, most celebrated as the writer of the screenplay of Citizen Kane. However, Joseph L's son, Tom Mankiewicz, who has died of cancer aged 68, is cherished by James Bond fans as the screenwriter of Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), as well as having worked on rewrites of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
At the beginning of his career, Mankiewicz admitted that he probably got work because of his father. "You suddenly started to realise that people were asking you because it was you," he explained. Unlike his father's best films – literate, dialogue-based vehicles – when a director called...
- 8/4/2010
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
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