Wolf MANKOWITZ

born London, November 17,1924. Married Ann Margaret Seligmann. 4 sons

Stage Works

1. Make Me an Offer, adaptation of his own novel (televised 1952; revised version, music and lyrics by Monty Norman and David Heneker, produced 1959)
2. The Bespoke Overcoat (produced 1953)
3. The Baby, adaptation of a work by Chekhov (televised 1954; produced 1981)
4. The Boychik (produced 1954)
5. It Should Happen To A Dog (televised 1955; produced 1967)
6. The Mighty Hunter (produced 1956)
7. The Last of the Cheesecake (produced 1956)
8. Expresso Bongo, with Julian More, music and lyrics by David Heneker and Monty Norman (produced 1958)
9. Belle; or, The Ballad of Dr. Crippen, with Beverley Cross, music by Monty Norman (produced 1961).
10. Pickwick, music and lyrics by Cyril Ornadel and Leslie Bricusse, adaptation of the novel by Dickens (produced 1963)
11. Passion Flower Hotel, music and lyrics by Trevor Peacock and John Barry, adaptation of the novel by Rosalind Erskine (produced 1965)
12. The Samson Riddle (produced 1972; as Samson and Delilah, produced 1978)
13. Jack Shepherd, music by Monty Norman (produced 1972; as Stand and Deliver, produced 1972).
14. Dickens of London (televised 1976)
15. The Hebrew Lesson (screenplay). 1976.
16. The Irish Hebrew Lesson (produced 1978)
17. Iron Butterflies (produced 1985)

SCREENPLAYS:

1. Make Me an Offer, with W.P. Lipscomb, 1954;
2. A Kid for Two Farthings, 1955;
3. The Bespoke Overcoat, 1955;
4. Trapeze, 1955;
5. Expresso Bongo, 1959;
6. The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (House of Fright), 1960;
7. The Millionairess, with Ricardo Aragno, 1960;
8. The Long and the Short and the Tall, with Willis Hall,(US title - Jungle Fughters) 1961;
9. The Day the Earth Caught Fire, with Val Guest, 1961;
10. Waltz of the Toreadors, 1962;
11. Where the Spies Are, with James Leasor and Val Guest, 1965;
12. Casino Royale, with others, 1967;
13. La Vingt-cinquième Heure (The Twenty-fifty Hour), 1967;
14. The Assassination Bureau, with Michael Relph, 1969;
15. Bloomfield (The Hero), with Richard Harris, 1970;
16. Black Beauty, with James Hill, 1971;
17. The Hebrew Lesson, 1972;
18. Treasure Island, with Orson Welles, 1973;
19. The Hireling, 1973;
20. 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

1. Make Me an Offer. 1952.
2. A Kid for Two Farthings. 1953.
3. Laugh Till You Cry: An Advertisement. 1955
4. My Old Man's a Dustman. (Old Soldiers Never Die) 1956;
5. Cockatrice. 1963.
6. The Biggest Pig in Barbados: A Fable. 1965.
7. Raspberry Reich. 1979.
8. Abracadabra! 1980.
9. The Devil in Texas. 1984.
10. Gioconda. 1987.
11. The Magic Cabinet of Professor Smucker. 1988.
12. Exquisite Cadaver. 1990.
13. 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.