Frank mankiewicz biography
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Frank Mankiewicz: A Portrait
by Frank Mankiewicz
I don’t know when or by whom the portrait of my grandfather for whom I was named was created. Frank Mankiewicz was a good American and spoke good English, but his aspect—at least in the portrait— was fierce and pure German. He glowered; the bald head, the firm and slightly turned- down mouth, and the bushy mustache yielded no hint of humor. It was large, well painted, and handsomely framed when I first saw it in the home of my uncle Joe Mankiewicz. He wanted me to have it, either as part of his estate or, better yet, right now. Joe hated that picture, even though his feelings about his father were mixed, at best. I, to be sure, even though I was named for the old guy, wanted no part of it, and the portrait somehow passed through Joe’s estate some years later to my brother, Don, who promptly moved it to his son, John, who soon persuaded my younger son, Ben, to accept it. There, for the moment, in Ben’s living room it hangs, and Ben, with no memory of his great- grandfather, accepts it, I hope, as a work of art.
The eponymous Frank Mankiewicz was an immigrant who went from the coal mines of Pennsylvania to a distinguished intellectual career as a professor of German literature. His older son (my father), acclaimed as a wit, N
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Francis Mankiewicz
Canadian filmmaker
Francis Mankiewicz (March 15, in Shanghai, China &#; August 14, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was a Canadianfilm director, screenwriter and producer. In , his family moved to Montreal, where Francis spent all his childhood. His father was a second cousin to the famous Hollywood brothers, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Herman J. Mankiewicz.[1][2]
Career
[edit]Francis Mankiewicz studied geology at McGill University and University of Montreal, and in , travelled to London, England, to study filmmaking. He returned to Montreal in and assisted on several sponsored films before directing his first feature in [3] His debut was Le temps d'une chasse, which was followed by the dysfunctional family drama Les Bons Débarras, generally regarded as his best film. He won Best Director at the Genie Awards, and the film was nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Later he directed Love and Hate: The Story of Colin and JoAnn Thatcher, the first Canadian-produced drama to play on primetime American television.
Mankiewicz died early of cancer at age
Filmography
[edit]Feature films
[edit]Other work
[edit]- Une cause civile (Short film, )
- Un procès criminel (Short film, )
- Valentin (Sh
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Frank Mankiewicz
Biography
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