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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-02-11 (116 years old)

Place of Birth

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Biography:

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of the Oscar-winning All About Eve (1950). He was brother to screenwriter and drama critic Herman J. Mankiewicz who also won an Oscar for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941).

Known For

Acting

2000

Backstory: 'All About Eve' as Self (archive footage)

1991

1990

1988

1986

1985

1983

1973

1968

The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

The Screen Director as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1929

Woman Trap as Reporter (as Joseph Mankiewicz)

Directing

1972

Sleuth as Director

1967

The Honey Pot as Director

1963

Cleopatra as Director

1959

1958

The Quiet American as Director

1955

Guys and Dolls as Director

1954

1953

Julius Caesar as Director

1952

5 Fingers as Director

1951

People Will Talk as Director

1950

All About Eve as Director
No Way Out as Director

1949

House of Strangers as Director

1948

Escape as Director

1946

Dragonwyck as Director

Production

1958

The Quiet American as Producer

1944

1942

Woman of the Year as Producer
Reunion in France as Producer

1941

The Feminine Touch as Producer

1940

Strange Cargo as Producer

1938

The Shopworn Angel as Producer
Mannequin as Producer
A Christmas Carol as Producer
The Shining Hour as Producer
Three Comrades as Producer

1937

Double Wedding as Producer
The Bride Wore Red as Producer

1936

Fury as Producer
Three Godfathers as Producer
Love on the Run as Producer
The Gorgeous Hussy as Producer

Writing

2017

Pleins feux as Original Film Writer

1992

Pleins feux as Original Film Writer

1985

A Letter to Three Wives as Original Film Writer

1967

The Honey Pot as Screenplay

1963

Cleopatra as Screenplay

1958

1955

Guys and Dolls as Screenplay

1954

1951

1950

All About Eve as Screenplay
No Way Out as Writer

1949

1946

Dragonwyck as Writer

1944

1938

The Shining Hour as Screenplay

1937

1936

1935

I Live My Life as Screenplay

1934

Manhattan Melodrama as Screenplay
Forsaking All Others as Screenplay
Our Daily Bread as Dialogue

1933

Alice in Wonderland as Screenplay
Diplomaniacs as Writer
Emergency Call as Screenplay
Diplomaniacs as Original Story

1932

This Reckless Age as Screenplay
If I Had a Million as Adaptation
Sky Bride as Screenplay

1931

Finn and Hattie as Writer
Newly Rich as Writer
The Gang Buster as Dialogue
June Moon as Screenplay
Dude Ranch as Dialogue
Skippy as Writer
Sooky as Writer
Sooky as Story
June Moon as Story

1930

Paramount on Parade as Screenplay
Only Saps Work as Screenplay
Slightly Scarlet as Screenplay
The Social Lion as Screenplay
Only Saps Work as Adaptation

1929

The River of Romance as Screenplay
Fast Company as Screenplay

Crew

1948

The Pirate as Additional Writing

1938

Mannequin as Additional Writing

1937

The Bride Wore Red as Additional Writing

1929

The Saturday Night Kid as Title Graphics