Tom Mankiewicz, the famous director and scriptwriter of Superman and other Bond films recently passed away at the age of 68.
Tom Mankiewicz, the famous director and scriptwriter of Superman and other Bond films recently passed away at the age of 68. CS tells you more about this man:u00a0
Films ran in his blood. Tom was the son of actress Rose Stradner and celebrated screenwriter/director Joseph L Mankiewicz who won four Oscars in two years for the screenplays and direction of A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve.
He did the drama course from Yale and during his vacations worked at a theatre in Massachusetts both in production and as an actor.
In 1963, two producers took Tom on as their assistant while making The Best Man. He was involved in virtually every aspect of the film, receiving his first on-screen credit as production associate.
He began to write, finishing an original screenplay, Please, about the last ninety minutes in the life of a suicidal young actress. It was optioned at times by three different studios, never made, but served as an example of his talent. His name first appeared as Thomas F Mankiewicz, but he thought it looked too pretentious so he became Tom Mankiewicz for the rest of his career.
He went on to direct Superman: The Movie and Superman II and wrote the scripts for Bond films like Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun and The Spy Who Loved Me.
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