Abby Mann (Writing)
Little is known about Abby Mann, a figure with a modest footprint in Writing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
7 Little Johnstons
The Johnstons, a family of little people, juggle family and health issues on top of a home renovation.
Release Date: 2015-03-31
Department: Editing
Job: Assistant Editor
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 23
Kojak
Kojak is an American television series starring Ving Rhames, airing on the USA Network cable channel, and on ITV4 in the United Kingdom. It was a reimagined version of the 1973-1978 series starring Telly Savalas. Rhames portrays Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York City Police Department, a skilled plain clothes detective with a shaved head and an affinity for jazz, fine clothing, and lollipops. As with the original series, he is fond of the catchphrase "Who loves ya, baby?" The series lasted for one season.
Release Date: 2005-03-25
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 5
A Tribute to Stanley Kramer
A celebration of Stanley Kramer's life and career, featuring interviews with Karen Sharpe, his widow, and screenwriter Abby Mann.
Release Date: 2004-09-07
Character: Self
The Value of a Single Human Being
Abby Mann discusses his Oscar-winning screenplay and his inspirations.
Release Date: 2004-09-07
Character: Self
In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
The actor and the writer reminisce about working on both the Playhouse 90 and Stanley Kramer versions of "Judgment at Nuremberg."
Release Date: 2004-09-07
Character: Self
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
Release Date: 2004-01-01
Character: Self
Vote Count: 13
Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the Belleville High School volleyball team. Three days after her body was discovered, Brandley was arrested as the murderer. Jew Don Boney, a popular activist and Houston city council member, leads the fight to uncover the truth about the Ferguson murder. Mike DeGeurin, a Texas attorney, is brought in to act as the head defense attorney for Brandley, and is joined by a former minister, Jim McCloskey. The lawyers discover that not only is there a complete lack of evidence against Brandley, but the District Attorney, James Keeshan, has been strategizing with the presiding judge. After nine years in prison, three trials and a stay of execution that saved Brandley's life, justice finally prevails as Brandley is granted his freedom.
Release Date: 2002-04-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Indictment: The McMartin Trial
The McMartin family's lives are turned upside down when they are accused of serious child molestation. The family run a school for infants. An unqualified child cruelty "expert" videotapes the children describing outrageous stories of abuse. One of the most expensive and long running trials in US legal history, exposes the lack of evidence and unprofessional attitudes of the finger pointers which kept one of the accused in jail for over 5 years without bail.
Release Date: 1995-05-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 58
Sinatra
Sinatra is a 1992 CBS miniseries biography and drama, starring Philip Casnoff as singer Frank Sinatra, developed and executive produced by Frank's youngest daughter Tina Sinatra.
Release Date: 1992-11-08
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 8
Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story
For a generation, the mobs main money machine was the Teamsters Union. When Jimmy Hoffa disappeared, the fight was on to see who could follow him. Jackie Presser was the son of a long time union board member and when he retired, Jackie was elevated to one of the most powerful position in the country; President of the Teamsters Union.
Release Date: 1992-09-12
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 3
Kojak: None So Blind
After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Police Inspector Theo Kojak must both protect her from an unscrupulous Dutch hitman, and bring Mob kingpin Tony Salducci to justice.
Release Date: 1990-04-07
Department: Crew
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 1
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story
A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation and his rise to become one of the leading Nazi hunters in the world, bringing such criminals to justice as Adolf Eichmann and Klaus Barbee. (Written by Anthony Hughes)
Release Date: 1989-04-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
War and Love
Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.
Release Date: 1985-09-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Kojak: The Belarus File
Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.
Release Date: 1985-02-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
The Atlanta Child Murders
The Atlanta Child Murders is a TV miniseries that aired on February 10 and 12, 1985 on CBS. Inspired by true events, the miniseries examines the so-called "Atlanta child murders" of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Release Date: 1985-02-10
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 10
Skag
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.
Release Date: 1980-01-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Skag
Skag is a short-lived American drama series that aired on NBC and starred Karl Malden. Skag originated as a three-hour television movie that aired on January 6, 1980. Over a week later, it then premiered as a weekly series, Thursdays at 10/9c, which ran from January 17, 1980 until its cancellation on February 21, 1980. Skag focused on the life of a foreman at a Pittsburgh steel mill. Malden described his character, Pete Skagska, as a simple man trying to keep his family together. The series was created by Abby Mann, and executive produced by Mann and Lee Rich.
Release Date: 1980-01-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Lawman Without a Gun
During the 1960s' civil rights movement, a black civil rights worker returns to his small Southern town and runs for sheriff against the incumbent, a popular segregationist.
Release Date: 1979-05-30
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
King
The story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., stretching from his days as a Southern Baptist minister in the South of the 1950s until his assassination in Memphis in 1968.
Release Date: 1978-02-12
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 3
Vote Count: 10
Medical Story
A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.
Release Date: 1975-09-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Medical Story
Medical Story is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from September 4, 1975, until January 8, 1976. Police Story's producers probe the medical world! Result: strong medicine!
Release Date: 1975-09-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 1
Report to the Commissioner
Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Release Date: 1975-02-05
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 19
The Greatest Gift
Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his loved ones.
Release Date: 1974-11-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Kojak
A bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New York City.
Release Date: 1973-10-24
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 119
The Marcus-Nelson Murders
A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.
Release Date: 1973-03-08
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
The Detective
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.
Release Date: 1968-05-28
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 68
Ship of Fools
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is traveling with the man she loves, David. Jenny is fascinated and puzzled by just who some of the other passengers are.
Release Date: 1965-07-29
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 89
A Child Is Waiting
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital. Jean, who tries to shelter the children with her love, suspiciously regards Dr. Clark's stern training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe, who has been abandoned by his divorced parents.
Release Date: 1963-02-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 54
The Condemned of Altona
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past.
Release Date: 1962-10-30
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 15
Judgment at Nuremberg
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
Release Date: 1961-12-18
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 810
The Mike Douglas Show
The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much of its first two years on the air. It then went into syndication in 1963 and remained on television until 1982. It was distributed by Westinghouse Broadcasting and for much of its run, originated from studios of two of the company's TV stations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.
Release Date: 1961-12-11
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a courtroom drama written by Abby Mann and directed by George Roy Hill that depicts the trial of four German judicial officials as part of the Nuremberg trials. Claude Rains starred as the presiding judge with Maximilian Schell as the defense attorney, Melvyn Douglas as the prosecutor, and Paul Lukas as the former German Minister of Justice.
Release Date: 1959-04-16
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Portrait of a Murderer
Based on a true story, Donald Bashor robs and bludgeons two women to their deaths. While committing the crimes he maintans a normal existence with his girlfriend Florry.
Release Date: 1958-02-27
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 1
Playhouse 90
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology series that was telecast on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. It originated from CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s were usually hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual, a weekly series of hour-and-a-half dramas rather than 60-minute plays. Playhouse 90 began as a pitch by Frank Stanton—the formidable, forward-thinking right-hand man to CBS chairman William S. Paley—during a brainstorming session for program ideas. The project was ultimately developed by Hubbell Robinson, a CBS vice president who received no screen credit on Playhouse 90 but is often described as its creator.
Release Date: 1956-10-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 6
Port of Escape
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
Release Date: 1956-05-01
Department: Crew
Job: Additional Writing
Vote Count: 5
The Oscars
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Release Date: 1953-03-19
Character: Self
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 65
Studio One
An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.
Release Date: 1948-11-07
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 11