Abby Mann

1927-12-01 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 25 Credits

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A Tribute to Stanley Kramer

A Tribute to Stanley Kramer

2004

as Self

Acting

A celebration of Stanley Kramer's life and career, featuring interviews with Karen Sharpe, his widow, and screenwriter Abby Mann.

The Value of a Single Human Being

The Value of a Single Human Being

2004

as Self

Acting

Abby Mann discusses his Oscar-winning screenplay and his inspirations.

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell

2004

as Self

Acting

The actor and the writer reminisce about working on both the Playhouse 90 and Stanley Kramer versions of "Judgment at Nuremberg."

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

2004

as Self

6.5
Acting

Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with ...

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

Whitewash: The Clarence Brandley Story

2002

Writer

Writing

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 F...

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

Indictment: The McMartin Trial

1995

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

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 unquali...

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

Teamster Boss: The Jackie Presser Story

1992

Screenplay, Executive Producer

5.2
Writing Producing

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. Jac...

Kojak: None So Blind

Kojak: None So Blind

1990

Creator

6.0

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...

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story

1989

Producer, Writer

6.6
Producing Writing

A biographical portrayal of Simon Wiesenthal, famous Nazi Hunter. From his imprisonment in a Nazi Concentration Camp, the film follows his liberation ...

War and Love

War and Love

1985

Writer

Writing

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 ...

Kojak The Belarus File

Kojak The Belarus File

1985

Writer

6.0
Writing

Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.

Skag

Skag

1980

Executive Producer, Writer

Producing Writing

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...

Lawman Without a Gun

Lawman Without a Gun

1979

Executive Producer

Producing

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 ...

Medical Story

Medical Story

1975

Writer

Writing

A young intern goes up against three older surgeons as to whether or not a young actress should get a hysterectomy.

Report to the Commissioner

Report to the Commissioner

1975

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instr...

The Greatest Gift

The Greatest Gift

1974

Writer

2.0
Writing

Reverend Holvak, a weak rural preacher from the 1940s, fights stiff-necked church deacons along with a violent, bullying sheriff whilst protecting his...

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973

Writer

6.9
Writing

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

The Detective

The Detective

1968

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.

Ship of Fools

Ship of Fools

1965

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

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....

A Child Is Waiting

A Child Is Waiting

1963

Writer

6.8
Writing

Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her lif...

The Condemned of Altona

The Condemned of Altona

1962

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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 daughte...

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg

1961

Screenplay, Original Story

8.0
Writing

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. Chie...

Judgment at Nuremberg

Judgment at Nuremberg

1959

Writer

Writing

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 co...

Portrait of a Murderer

Portrait of a Murderer

1958

Story

9.0
Writing

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...

Port of Escape

Port of Escape

1956

Additional Writing

5.4

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, comm...