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Stanley Mann Biography ((?)-)

Born Daniel Chugerman, August 8, 1912, in New York, NY; died of heart failure, November 21, 1991, in Los Angeles, CA; son of Samuel (a lawyer) and Helen Chugerman; married Kathleen Williams (an actress), 1948; children: Michael, Alex, Erica Mann Ramis. Addresses: Agent: c/o The Gersh Agency, 232 North Canon Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90210.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

screenwriter, motion picture producer

Famous Works

• Credits; Stage Work
• Associate producer, You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Theatre 80,St. Mark's Playhouse, New York City, 1967-70.
• Credits; Film Work
• Producer, with Howard Harrison, The Strange Affair (also see below), Paramount, 1968.
• Producer, with Alan Ladd, Jr., The Devil's Widow, British International, 1972.
• Producer, with John Kohn, Theatre of Blood, United Artists (UA), 1973.
• Also producer of Tam Lin, 1971.
• Credits; Film Appearances
• Motel owner, Firestarter (also see below), Universal, 1984.
• Credits; Screenplays
• Another Time, Another Place (based on a novel by Lenore Coffee), Paramount, 1958.
• (With Roger MacDougall) The Mouse that Roared (based on the novelThe Wrath of the Grapes by Leonard Wibberley), Columbia, 1959.
• (With Jan and Mark Lowell) His and Hers, Eros, 1960.
• (With Sidney Buchman) The Mark (based on the novel by Charles Israel), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961.
• (With Robert Muller and Michael Relph) Woman of Straw (based on the novel La Femme de Paille by Catherine Arley), UA, 1964.
• Rapture (based on the novel Rapture in Rags by Phyllis Hastings), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965.
• (With Claude Brule and Howard Clewes) Up From the Beach (based onthe novel Epitaph for an Enemy by George Barr), Twentieth Century-Fox,1965.
• (With Denis Cannan and Ronald Harwood) A High Wind in Jamaica (based on the novel by Richard Hughes), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1965.
• (With John Kohn) The Collector (based on the novel by John Fowles), Columbia, 1965.
• The Naked Runner (based on the novel by Francis Clifford), WarnerBros., 1967.
• The Strange Affair (based on the novel by Bernard Toms), Paramount, 1968.
• (With others) Fraulein Doktor (based on a story by Vittoriano Petrilli), Paramount, 1968.
• (With Tom Ardies and Arnold Margolin) Russian Roulette (based on the novel Kosygin Is Coming by Ardies), Avco Embassy, 1975.
• (With Jack DeWitt and Garry Michael White) Sky Riders (based on astory by Hall T. Sprague and Bill McGaw), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976.
• (With Roger Swaybill) Breaking Point (based on the novel by Swaybill), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1976.
• (With Michael Hodges) Damien: Omen II, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1978.
• (With Stirling Silliphant) The Silent Flute (based on a story by Bruce Lee, James Coburn, and Silliphant; also known as Circle of Iron),Avco Embassy, 1979.
• (With Edmund H. North) Meteor (based on a story by North), American International, 1979.
• Eye of the Needle (based on the novel by Ken Follett), UA, 1981.
• Firestarter (based on the novel by Steven King), Universal, 1984.
• Conan the Destroyer (based on the character created by Robert E. Howard), Universal, 1984.
• (With John Briley) Tai-Pan (based on the novel by James Clavell),DEG, 1986.
• (With Menahem Golan) Hanna's War, Cannon, 1988.
• Also author of screenplays Powell, Third Time Lucky, and Evening Flight. Screenplay consultant on Stanley, 1983.
• Credits; Stage Plays
• The Room, first produced at Cherry Lane Theatre, New York City, 1966.
• Credits; Teleplays
• (With others) The Invisible Man, CBS, 1958-60.
• Draw!, HBO, 1984.
• Also author of teleplay Mad Bull, 1977.

Further Reference

Periodicals

• Forbes, November 10, 1980, p. 256.