Celebrity Biographies
Loring Mandel
When HBO began to show that it could carry out television productions that had nothing to envy with those of cinema, the quality of “The Final Solution” drew attention, in which it was noted that it had a first-class script. Its author, Loring Mandel, passed away on March 24, 2020, at the age of 91, as a result of cancer in Lenox, Massachusetts.
The son of a doctor, Loring Mandel was born on May 5, 1928 in Chicago. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1949, he served in the Army in the Korean War. After the conflict ended, he got a job writing for CBS television shows like “The Seven Lively Arts” and “Playhouse 90.”
He made his film debut writing the script for Countdown , an astronaut film directed in 1967 by Robert Altman , starring James Caan and Robert Duvall for five years before reuniting in The Godfather . He also wrote The Girl with the Drum , an adaptation for the cinema of John le Carré ‘s novel that had a cast headed by Diane Keaton , and The Final Solution , an HBO feature film about the decision of the Nazis to exterminate the Jews that had great repercussions. .
Married to Dorothy since 1950, with whom he has remained together until his death, the couple had two children. Upon retirement, he had donated all his scripts, correspondence, and documents related to the Seventh Art to the Wisconsin Theater and Film Research Center.