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- Birth nameAbraham Goodman
- Abby Mann was born on December 1, 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Skag (1980) and Kojak (1973). He was married to Myra Mann. He died on March 25, 2008 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- SpouseMyra Mann(? - March 25, 2008) (his death, 3 children)
- Adapted his screenplay of Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) for a stage production on Broadway, featuring Maximilian Schell, who had won an Academy Award for the 1961 movie version, in a different role (2001).
- He became interested in the 1946 Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, and wrote a script for a television program about it. Subsequently, he was determined to write his first film screenplay about the trials.
- His father was a jeweler of Russian Jewish descent.
- Died just one day after Richard Widmark, one of the stars of Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).
- Won an Emmy and a Writer's Guild of America Award for "The Marcus Nelson Murders", the TV pilot which introduced the popular television series "Kojak", and which catapulted Telly Savalas to stardom.
- A lot of people didn't want it done. People wanted to sweep the issue under the rug. (1994 interview about the making of "Judgment at Nuremberg")
- [on writing the screenplay for 'Judgment at Nuremberg'] A few years ago I retired to a room on Fifty-eight Street in New York with some legal records of the Third Reich. And I went there because I believe a writer worth his salt at all has an obligation not only to entertain, but to comment on the world in which he lives. Not only to comment but maybe have a shot at reshaping that world.
- I consider the two years I spent in England from 1954 to 1956 to be the happiest in my life. It was that time when I was able to look at my life and work with some objectivity and to find out what I really wanted to say.
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - $200,000
- Judgment at Nuremberg (1959) - $6,000
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