Known For
Complete Filmography

A Tribute to Stanley Kramer
2004
as Self
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
2004
as Self
Abby Mann discusses his Oscar-winning screenplay and his inspirations.

In Conversation: Abby Mann and Maximillian Schell
2004
as Self
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
2004
as Self
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
2002
Writer
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
1995
Screenplay
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
1992
Screenplay, Executive Producer
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
1990
Creator
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
1989
Producer, Writer
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
1985
Writer
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
1985
Writer
Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy.

Skag
1980
Executive Producer, Writer
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
1979
Executive Producer
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
1975
Writer
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
1975
Screenplay
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
1974
Writer
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
1973
Writer
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
1968
Screenplay
Police detective Joe Leland investigates the murder of a gay man.

Ship of Fools
1965
Screenplay
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
1963
Writer
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
1962
Screenplay
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
1961
Screenplay, Original Story
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
1959
Writer
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
1958
Story
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
1956
Additional Writing
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...