Don Mankiewicz

Novelist and screenwriter -- via mynewsla.com. A prolific writer for film and television, he is best remembered for writing the Oscar-nominated "I Want to Live!" -- for TV, he created "Ironside" and "Marcus Welby, M.D." For fans of marginalia, he wrote a few episodes ofthe excelent speculative sci-fi series "One Step Beyond," and the highly regarded two-part "Court Martial" episode of the original "Star Trek." Son of Herman ("Citizen Kane"), nephew of Joseph L. ("All About Eve") and father of John ("House of Cards") and uncle of Ben (TCM host and film journalist). A good union (WGA) man!