Abby Mann
Birthday: 1 December 1927, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Birth Name: Abraham Goodman
Abby Mann was born on December 1, 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA as Abraham Goodman. He was a writer and producer, known for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Kojak (1973) and A Child Is Waiting ...Show More
A lot of people didn't want it done. People wanted to sweep the issue under the rug. (1994 interview Show more
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") Hide
I consider the two years I spent in England from 1954 to 1956 to be the happiest in my life. It was Show more
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. Hide
[on writing the screenplay for 'Judgment at Nuremberg'] A few years ago I retired to a room on Fifty Show more
[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 write 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. Hide
Abby Mann's FILMOGRAPHY
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