
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
WritingFebruary 11, 1909-February 5, 1993
Birth Place
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of the Oscar-winning All About Eve (1950). He was brother to screenwriter and drama critic Herman J. Mankiewicz who also won an Oscar for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941).