Tom Mankiewicz
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Tom Mankiewicz (born June 1, 1942) is an American screenwriter and director. A graduate of Yale University, he is the son of Joseph L. Mankiewicz and the nephew of Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Tom Mankiewicz wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for Mother, Jugs & Speed, The Cassandra Crossing and The Eagle Has Landed. He also wrote the book for the short-lived 1970 Broadway musical Georgy.
He is best known for working on the screenplays for the James Bond movies Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun. He received sole credit for Live and Let Die and shared credit on the other two with Richard Maibaum. He also did uncredited work on The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.
Mankiewicz was asked by director Richard Donner to serve as a script doctor by rewriting the screenplay for his 1978 film Superman. Although he wrote virtually all of the dialogue and significantly changed the tone of the film, Mankiewicz was denied a screenwriting credit under the WGA screenwriting credit system which favors original authors. He was, instead, credited as "Creative Consultant", to the annoyance of the Writers Guild of America, west.[citation needed]
Mankiewicz also wrote a script for a two-part Batman film franchise for Warner Bros. in which the two films were to be filmed simultaneously like Superman and Superman II.
Mankiewicz made his directorial debut with Dragnet in 1987.
[edit] Thoroughbred horse racing
Tom Mankiewicz has been involved in the sport of Thoroughbred horse racing in California since the 1980s when he purchased his first horse in partnership with actor, Robert Wagner. Since then he has co-owned several with Jerry Moss plus he has a string of horses he races on his own. In 2004, his filly Victory Encounter won the Grade I Vanity Handicap and in 2007 another of his fillies, Dearest Trickski, won the Grade I La Brea Stakes at Santa Anita Park.
