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Michael Mann Biography (1943-)

Full name, Michael K. Mann; born February 5, 1943, in Chicago, IL; son of grocers; divorced; married second wife, Summer (a painter); children: four daughters. Addresses: Agent: Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd.,Beverly Hills, CA 90212; International Creative Management, 8942 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90211-1934.; Publicist: PMK/HBH, 8500 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 700, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.; Contact: 13746 Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-4020.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Director, producer, writer

Birth Details

February 5, 1943

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Work
• Series
• Creator and executive producer, Miami Vice (also known as MiamiUnworthiness), NBC, 1984-1989
• Executive producer, Crime Story, NBC, 1986-1988
• Executive producer and creator, R.H.D./LA (also known as R.H.D./LA: Robbery Homicide Division/Los Angeles), CBS, 2002
• Movies
• Director, The Jericho Mile, ABC, 1979
• Executive producer and director, L.A. Takedown (also known as L.A. Crimewave and Made in L.A.), NBC, 1989
• Executive producer, Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel, 1992
• Miniseries
• Co-executive producer, Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, NBC, 1990
• Pilots
• Executive producer, Miami Vice (also known as Miami Vice: Brother's Keeper), 1984
• Producer, Crime Story, NBC, 1986
• Executive producer, Robbery Homicide Division, CBS, 2002
• Television Director
• Episodic
• "Top of the World," Crime Story, NBC, 1987
• Also directed episodes of Police Woman; Vega$; Miami Vice.
• Television Appearances
• Specials
• James Caan: Making a Scene, Arts and Entertainment, 2001
• Episodic
• Dave, "By Silence Betrayed," Kojak, 1976
• Lackey, "Citizen Krane," Laverne & Shirley, 1977
• Sergeant Glassberg, "Major Topper," M*A*S*H, 1978
• Film Work
• Director, Jaunpuri (short film), 1971
• Director, Eighteen Days down the Line (documentary), 1972
• Executive producer and director, Thief (also known as Violent Streets), United Artists, 1981
• Director, The Keep, Paramount, 1983
• Executive producer, Band of the Hand, TriStar, 1986
• Producer, director, and cinematographer, Manhunter (also known asRed Dragon: The Pursuit of Hannibal Lecter), De Laurentiis Entertainment, 1986
• Director and (with Hunt Lowry) producer, The Last of the Mohicans,Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992
• Producer and director, Heat, Warner Bros., 1995
• Director, The Zen Differential, 1998
• Producer and director, Man of the People (also known as The ManWho Knew Too Much), Buena Vista, 1999
• Director and producer, The Insider, Buena Vista, 1999
• Director and producer, Ali, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2001
• Also directed the film Insurrection.
• Film Appearances
• Howard Hawks: American Artist, 1997
• Himself, Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River, 1998
• WRITINGS
• Television Movies
• (With Patrick J. Nolan) The Jericho Mile, ABC, 1979
• (With Jeffrey Bloom and Ron Koslow) Swan Song, ABC, 1980
• L.A. Takedown (also known as L.A. Crimewave and Made inL.A.), NBC, 1989
• Television Miniseries
• Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, NBC, 1990
• Television Specials
• Bronk, CBS, 1975
• Television Pilots
• Vega$ (also known as High Roller), 1978
• Television Episodes
• Starsky and Hutch (also known as Starsky & Hutch), ABC,c. 1970
• Police Story, NBC, c. 1970
• Vega$, ABC, 1978
• Miami Vice (also known as Miami Unworthiness), NBC, 1984-1989
• (As Michael Thomas Mann) The New Lassie, 1989
• Screenplays
• (Uncredited) Straight Time, Warner Bros., 1978
• Thief (also known as Violent Streets), United Artists, 1981
• The Keep (adapted from F. Paul Wilson's novel of the same title),Paramount, 1983
• Manhunter (also known as Red Dragon: The Pursuit of Hannibal Lecter; adapted from Thomas Harris's novel Red Dragon), De Laurentiis Entertainment, 1986
• (With Christopher Crowe and Philip Dunne) The Last of the Mohicans(based on James Fenimore Cooper's novel of the same title), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1992
• Heat, Warner Bros., 1995
• Man of the People (also known as The Man Who Knew Too Much), Buena Vista, 1999
• The Insider, Buena Vista, 1999
• Ali, Sony Pictures Entertainment, 2001

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

• Contemporary Authors, Volume 120, Gale, 1987

Periodicals

• Film Comment, November/December, 1983; March/April, 1996, p. 10
• GQ, June, 1992, p. 172
• Interview, December, 1995, p. 34
• Rolling Stone, December 17, 1987, pp. 163-164; February 19, 1988,p. 163
• USA Today, March, 2000, p. 74
• Variety, July 15, 2002, p. 7
• Washington Post, October 16, 1985 p. 1