Babaloo Mandel Biography (1949-)

Original name, Mark Mandel; born October 13, 1949, in New York, NY; father, ataxi driver; married Denise Horn, 1974; children: Joshua, Jesse, Jason, Jake, Jamie, Julie. Addresses: Agent: Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212-1825.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Writer, producer, actor
Birth Details: October 13, 1949; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Executive Producer
Mr. Saturday Night, Columbia, 1992
Film Appearances
Rudy, Splash, Buena Vista, 1984
Writer number two, Mr. Saturday Night, Columbia, 1992
Television Work
Creator and Executive Producer; Series
(And creator of characters with Lowell Ganz) Gung Ho, ABC, 1986-1987
(Creator with Ganz) Channel 99, NBC, 1988
(With Ganz) Knight & Daye, NBC, 1989
(With Ron Howard, Ganz, and others) Parenthood, NBC, 1990
A League of Their Own, CBS, 1993
Hiller and Diller, ABC, 1997
Other; Series
(Producer and creative consultant [with Lowell Ganz]) Happy Days (also known as Happy Days Again), ABC, beginning c. 1974
(Creator and creative consultant [with Ganz]) Take Five (also known as Kooper with a "K"), CBS, 1987
Creator and Executive Producer; Pilots
Channel 99, NBC, 1988
Television Appearances
Specials
Naked Hollywood (documentary), Arts and Entertainment, 1991
Laughing Matters, Showtime, 1993
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) 13th Annual Hall of Fame, Showtime, 1998
Episodic
A Day With, Fox, 1995
WRITINGS

Screenplays
(With Lowell Ganz) Night Shift, Warner Bros., 1982
(With Ganz and Bruce Jay Friedman) Splash (adapted from a story byFriedman and Brian Grazer), Buena Vista, 1984
(With Ganz and Dan Aykroyd) Spies Like Us (adapted from a story byAykroyd and Dave Thomas), Warner Bros., 1985
(With Ganz) Gung Ho (also known as Working Class Man), Paramount, 1986
Father's Day, 1988
(With Ganz) Vibes (adapted from a story by Ganz, Mandel, and Deborah Blum), Columbia, 1988
(With Ganz) Parenthood (adapted from a story by Ganz, Mandel, andRon Howard), Universal, 1989
(With Ganz) City Slickers (adapted from a story by Billy Crystal),Columbia, 1991
(With Ganz) A League of Their Own, Columbia, 1992
(With Ganz and Crystal) Mr. Saturday Night, Columbia, 1992
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (also known as City Slickers II), Columbia, 1994
The Flintstones, Universal, 1994
Greedy, Universal, 1994
Forget Paris, Columbia, 1995
(With Ganz, Chris Miller, and Mary Hale) Multiplicity, Columbia, 1996
(With Ganz) Father's Day, Warner Bros., 1997
Liar Liar, Universal, 1997
(With Ganz) Edtv (also known as Ed TV), Universal, 1999
Stuart Little, Columbia, 1999
Where the Heart Is, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000
Dr. Doolittle 2, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2001
(With others) Stuart Little 2, Sony Pictures Releasing, 2002
Fever Pitch, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2003
Also wrote other films with Lowell Ganz, including Dance Skins, Over My Dead Body, and Perfect Couple.
Teleplays
Series
The Odd Couple, ABC, c. 1972-1975
Episodic
Happy Days (also known as Happy Days Again), ABC, beginningc. 1974
Laverne and Shirley (also known as Laverne & Shirley &Friends), ABC, episodes between 1976 and 1983
Busting Loose, CBS, 1977
"Boo!," Amazing Stories, NBC, 1986
(With Lowell Ganz) Take Five, CBS, 1987
A League of Their Own, CBS, 1993
Hiller and Diller, ABC, 1997
Pilots
(With Lowell Ganz) Herndon and Me, ABC, 1983
(With Ganz) Channel 99, NBC, 1988
(With others) Knight & Daye, NBC, 1989
(With others) Parenthood, NBC, 1990

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Chicago Tribune, August 8, 1989
Premiere, August, 1989, pp. 62-64

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