Abby Mann Filmography

Born:: December 1, 1927 in Philadelphia, PA
Occupation:: Executive Producer, Screenwriter
Birth name:: Abraham Goodman
Biography:: Screenwriter Abby Mann (born Abraham Goodman in Philadelphia) is best known for writing dramas for such prestigious early television anthologies as Studio One and Playhouse 90. Later he adopted a couple of his television plays for feature films including Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). He also wrote...Read More

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10,000 Black Men Named George

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Andre Braugher, Charles S. Dutton, Mario Van Peebles, Brock Peters, Carla Brothers

Synopsis: In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. So in 1925, when journalist and political activist Asa Philip Randolph and railway car porter Ashley Totten formed Read More

2002
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Courtney Vance, Erik Walker, Gil Bellows

Synopsis: In 1980, Clarence Brandley was an African-American janitor who was convicted of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school student in the city of Conroe, TX. James Keeshan, a powerful local prosecutor, handled the case and was able to obtain a death sentence against Brandley, even though the Read More

2002
Indictment: the McMartin Trial

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: James Woods, Mercedes Ruehl, Sada Thompson, Henry Thomas, Lolita Davidovich

Synopsis: Originally broadcast on HBO, Indictment: The McMartin Trial is a docudrama concerning the infamous McMartin child abuse case. In 1984, seven employees of Los Angeles' prestigious McMartin Preschool, including four members of the McMartin family, were arrested and charged with child abuse and Read More

1995
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Brian Dennehy, Jeff Daniels, Maria Conchita Alonso

Synopsis: Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story is a made-for-cable adaptation of James Neff's Mobbed Up, a real-life account about Teamster president Jackie Presser. Brian Dennehy plays Presser, who was Jimmy Hoffa's successor as president of the Teamsters. Like Hoffa, Presser was caught between the Read More

1992
The Atlanta Child Murders

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Atlanta Child Murders is a five-hour, two-part dramatization of one of the most tragic and controversial homicide cases of the past twenty years. From 1979 through 1982, some 28 African-American children and young adults disappeared from Atlanta--some without a trace, but others to later turn Read More

1985
War and Love

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sebastian Keneas, Kyra Sedgwick, David Spielberg, Cheryl Giannini

Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel by Jack Eisner, this wartime drama of survival covers almost too much territory within its short telling, often giving the impression that something has been left out. Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. Read More

1985
This Man Stands Alone

Crew: Executive Producer

Synopsis: This socially conscious drama is set during the Civil Rights Movement and chronicles the endeavors of a black minister to run for sheriff in a Southern county. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Skag

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The short-lived TV series Skag was introduced with a 3-hour premiere on January 6, 1980. Karl Malden stars as Pete "Skag" Skagska, Pittsburgh steel mill foreman and family man. In the pilot, Skag attempts to deal with several family crises: his father's debilitating stroke, his strained Read More

1979
King: The Martin Luther King Story

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: King: The Martin Luther King Story originated as a three-part miniseries, first telecast February 12, 13 and 14, 1978. Paul Winfield is starred as Martin Luther King, with Cicely Tyson as Coretta Scott King. The film covers the years 1954 through 1968, taking Rev. King from his first peaceful Read More

1978
Medical Story [TV Series]

Crew: Co-Executive Producer, Show Creator

Synopsis: Debuting September 4, 1975, the NBC prime-time series Medical Story presented a new hour-long playlet (with unique environments and characters) each week, all of which dealt with the subject of doctors, nurses and patients. It thus brought the old Playhouse 90 anthology format into the arena of Read More

1975
The Greatest Gift

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The Greatest Gift stars Glenn Ford as Reverend Holvak, a poverty-stricken small-town preacher. He struggles to keep his family and his rapidly dwindling congregation together in a small Southern town. Throughout this made-for-TV movie, Holvak is under attack from two fronts: the remonstrative Read More

1974
Report to the Commissioner

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Susan Blakely, Hector Elizondo, William Devane

Synopsis: A young NYPD detective learns (the hard way) about the politics that govern a big-city police department. He kills a lady-detective/colleague whose undercover garb concealed her profession and he gets caught up in a department cover-up. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Kojak [TV Series]

Crew: Show Creator

Actors: Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas, Vince Conti

Synopsis: The character of tough, sarcastic, lollipop-sucking New York City police detective Theo Kojak was introduced in The Marcus-Nelson Murders, a 1973 TV movie based on the novel by Selwyn Raab, which in turn was inspired by the real-life Wylie-Hoffert murder case of 1963 that ultimately led to the Read More

1973
The Marcus-Nelson Murders

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A roman a clef depicting the Wylie-Hoffert murders, this is the first of the made for TV movies introducing the Kojak character and was essentially the pilot for the long-running crime series. When a black ghetto youth is accused of two bizarre murders, Kojak takes it upon himself to find the real Read More

1973
The Detective

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Lee Remick, Ralph Meeker, Jacqueline Bisset, Jack Klugman

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra gives a gritty performance in the crime thriller The Detective. When Teddy Leikman, the homosexual son of a politically connected department-store magnate, is murdered, detective Joe Leland (Frank Sinatra) is sent in to investigate. Leland drags in Teddy's psychotic former roommate Read More

1968
Ship of Fools

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Marvin, Oskar Werner

Synopsis: The first person the audience sees in Ship of Fools is dwarf Michael Dunn, who speaks to viewers directly and acts as a Greek chorus throughout the film. It begins on the deck of an ocean liner travelling from Vera Cruz to Bremerhaven. The time is the 1930s, so close and yet so far from war. The Read More

1965
A Child Is Waiting

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Bruce Ritchey

Synopsis: Produced by Stanley Kramer, A Child is Waiting is set in an institution for the mentally handicapped, with many actual residents playing supporting and bit roles. Doctor Burt Lancaster and instructor Judy Garland often find themselves at odds over teaching methods, with Garland preferring an Read More

1963
I Sequestrati di Altona

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner, Françoise Prevost

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica's version of a play by Jean-Paul Sartre stars Frederic March as Albrecht von Gerlach, the owner of one of Germany's biggest industrial firms. Albrecht calls for his son Werner (Robert Wagner), a lawyer who is married to an actress, Johanna (Sophia Loren). The aging Albrecht wants Read More

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Judgment at Nuremberg

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, Werner Klemperer

Synopsis: After the end of World War II, the world gradually became aware of the full extent of the war crimes perpetrated by the Third Reich. In 1948, a series of trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany, by an international tribunal, headed by American legal and military officials, with the intent of Read More

1961
Port of Escape

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two WW II veterans become fugitives from the police after one of them kills a man during a fight. A friendly reporter offers them sanctuary aboard her boat, but one of the two is so flighty he is almost psychotic. His erratic actions attract too much attention and during a Read More

1955