Wolf MANKOWITZ
born London, November 17,1924. Married Ann Margaret Seligmann. 4 sons
Stage Works
- Make Me an Offer, adaptation of his own novel (televised 1952; revised version, music and lyrics by Monty Norman and David Heneker, produced 1959)
- The Bespoke Overcoat (produced 1953)
- The Baby, adaptation of a work by Chekhov (televised 1954; produced 1981)
- The Boychik (produced 1954)
- It Should Happen To A Dog (televised 1955; produced 1967)
- The Mighty Hunter (produced 1956)
- The Last of the Cheesecake (produced 1956)
- Expresso Bongo, with Julian More, music and lyrics by David Heneker and Monty Norman (produced 1958)
- Belle; or, The Ballad of Dr. Crippen, with Beverley Cross, music by Monty Norman (produced 1961).
- Pickwick, music and lyrics by Cyril Ornadel and Leslie Bricusse, adaptation of the novel by Dickens (produced 1963)
- Passion Flower Hotel, music and lyrics by Trevor Peacock and John Barry, adaptation of the novel by Rosalind Erskine (produced 1965)
- The Samson Riddle (produced 1972; as Samson and Delilah, produced 1978)
- Jack Shepherd, music by Monty Norman (produced 1972; as Stand and Deliver, produced 1972).
- Dickens of London (televised 1976)
- The Hebrew Lesson (screenplay). 1976.
- The Irish Hebrew Lesson (produced 1978)
- Iron Butterflies (produced 1985)
SCREENPLAYS:
- Make Me an Offer, with W.P. Lipscomb, 1954;
- A Kid for Two Farthings, 1955;
- The Bespoke Overcoat, 1955;
- Trapeze, 1955;
- Expresso Bongo, 1959;
- The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (House of Fright), 1960;
- The Millionairess, with Ricardo Aragno, 1960;
- The Long and the Short and the Tall, with Willis Hall,(US title - Jungle Fughters) 1961;
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire, with Val Guest, 1961;
- Waltz of the Toreadors, 1962;
- Where the Spies Are, with James Leasor and Val Guest, 1965;
- Casino Royale, with others, 1967;
- La Vingt-cinquième Heure (The Twenty-fifty Hour), 1967;
- The Assassination Bureau, with Michael Relph, 1969;
- Bloomfield (The Hero), with Richard Harris, 1970;
- Black Beauty, with James Hill, 1971;
- The Hebrew Lesson, 1972;
- Treasure Island, with Orson Welles, 1973;
- The Hireling, 1973;
- Almonds and Raisins (documentary), 1983.
TELEVISION PLAYS:
- Make Me an Offer, 1952;
- The Baby, 1954;
- The Girl, 1955;
- It Should Happen to a Dog, 1955;
- The Killing Stones, 1958;
- Love Is Hell, 1966;
- Dickens of London series, 1976;
- Have a Nice Death, from the story by Antonia Fraser (Tales of the Unexpected series), 1984
NOVELS
- Make Me an Offer. 1952.
- A Kid for Two Farthings. 1953.
- Laugh Till You Cry: An Advertisement. 1955
- My Old Man's a Dustman. (Old Soldiers Never Die) 1956;
- Cockatrice. 1963.
- The Biggest Pig in Barbados: A Fable. 1965.
- Raspberry Reich. 1979.
- Abracadabra! 1980.
- The Devil in Texas. 1984.
- Gioconda. 1987.
- The Magic Cabinet of Professor Smucker. 1988.
- Exquisite Cadaver. 1990.
- A Night with Casanova. 1991.
SHORT STORIES
- The Mendelman Fire and Other Stories. 1957.
- Expresso Bongo: A Wolf Mankowitz Reader. 1961.
- The Blue Arabian Nights: Tales of a London Decade. 1973.
- The Days of the Women and the Nights of the Men: Fables. 1977.
VERSE
Xll Poems. 1971.
OTHER
- The Portland Vase and the Wedgwood Copies. 1952. Wedgwood. 1953; revised edition, 1980.
- Majollika and Company (for children). 1955.
- ABC of Show Business. 1956.
- A Concise Encyclopedia of English Pottery and Porcelain, with R.G. Haggar. 1957.
- The Penguin Wolf Mankowitz. 1967.
- The Extraordinary Mr. Poe: A Biography of Edgar Allan Poe. 1978.
- Mazeppa: The Lives, Loves, and Legends of Adah Isaacs Menken: A Biographical Quest. 1982.
MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION: Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University.