Biography: life and films
Joseph L. Mankiewicz was an American screenwriter, film director and producer whose birth name was Joseph Leo Mankiewicz. He was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA on 11th February 1909 and died in Bedford, New York, USA on 5th February 1993, aged 83.His best films as a screenwriter include Rowland V. Lee's thriller The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929), Norman Z. McLeod's Finn and Hattie (1931), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), All About Eve (1950) and People Will Talk (1951), and whose best work as a film director include The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), A Letter to Three Wives (1949), All About Eve (1950) and People Will Talk (1951).
Joseph L. Mankiewicz scripted 52 films and directed 22 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: A. Edward Sutherland (6 films), W.S. Van Dyke (3), Norman Z. McLeod (3), Norman Taurog (3) and Frank Tuttle (3).
His most frequent genres include: drama (21 films), comedy (18), romance (12), comedy-drama (7), comedy-romance (6), Thriller (6), Western (3), history (2) and Fantasy (2).
Our average rating for Joseph L. Mankiewicz over all films is: 3.1
Filmography
Key: d = director; w = writer; a = actor
Close Harmony (1929) [w]
Fast Company (1929) [w]
River of Romance (1929) [w]
The Dummy (1929) [w]
The Man I Love (1929) [w]
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929) [w]
The Saturday Night Kid (1929) [w]
The Studio Murder Mystery (1929) [w]
The Virginian (1929) [w]
Woman Trap (1929) [a]
Only Saps Work (1930) [w]
Paramount on Parade (1930) [w]
Slightly Scarlet (1930) [w]
The Social Lion (1930) [w]
Dude Ranch (1931) [w]
Finn and Hattie (1931) [w]
June Moon (1931) [w]
Newly Rich (1931) [w]
Skippy (1931) [w]
Sooky (1931) [w]
The Gang Buster (1931) [w]
If I Had a Million (1932) [w]
Million Dollar Legs (1932) [w]
Sky Bride (1932) [w]
This Reckless Age (1932) [w]
Alice in Wonderland (1933) [w]
Diplomaniacs (1933) [w]
Emergency Call (1933) [w]
Too Much Harmony (1933) [w]
Forsaking All Others (1934) [w]
Manhattan Melodrama (1934) [w]
Our Daily Bread (1934) [w]
I Live My Life (1935) [w]
Redheads on Parade (1935) [w]
The Shining Hour (1938) [w]
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) [w]
Backfire (1946) [d,w]
Dragonwyck (1946) [d,w]
Somewhere in the Night (1946) [d,w]
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) [d]
The Late George Apley (1947) [d]
Escape (1948) [d]
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) [d,w]
House of Strangers (1949) [d,w]
All About Eve (1950) [d,w]
No Way Out (1950) [d,w]
People Will Talk (1951) [d,w]
5 Fingers (1952) [d,w]
Julius Caesar (1953) [d,w]
The Barefoot Contessa (1954) [d,w]
Guys and Dolls (1955) [d,w]
The Quiet American (1958) [d,w]
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) [d]
Cleopatra (1963) [d]
The Honey Pot (1967) [d,w]
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) [d]
There Was a Crooked Man... (1970) [d,w]
Sleuth (1972) [d]
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) [a]
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker (1991) [a]
The very best fantasy films in French cinema
The Carry On films, from the heyday of British film comedy
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
