Loring Mandel, two-time Emmy-winning TV writer, passes away at 91 years of age
Two-time Emmy-winning TV writer Loring Mandel has passed away at the age of 91 on March 24, it was revealed on Monday.
The writer’s son Alan Mandel confirmed his father passed from cancer at his home in Lenox, Massachusetts, according to Variety.
Mandel’s two Emmy wins come more than 40 years apart, his first in 1968 for Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night on CBS Playhouse and his second in 2001 for his HBO/BBC WWII film Conspiracy.
R.I.P.: Two-time Emmy-winning TV writer Loring Mandel has passed away at the age of 91 on March 24, it was revealed on Monday
Mandel was born in Chicago, and he attended the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1949.
He married his wife Dorothy in 1950 and moved back to Chicago after school, where he got a job as a music arranger for ABC’s house orchestra.
He also landed a side job writing trailers for movies and content for television variety shows, along with radio shows such as Jack Benny and more.
Chicago: Mandel was born in Chicago, and he attended the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated in 1949
After serving in the Korean War, Mandel re-located to New York City to start his writing career in earnest.
Among his first writing gigs were for shows such as Studio One in Hollywood, The Seven Lively Arts and Playhouse 90 in the last few years of the 1950s.
One of his Playhouse 90 scripts earned him his first Emmy nomination, and he would move on to The DuPont Show of the Week and The Bing Crosby Show in the 1960s.
Writing career: After serving in the Korean War, Mandel re-located to New York City to start his writing career in earnest
He made his feature film writing debut with the 1967 Robert Altman movie Countdown, which starred James Caan and Robert Duvall.
After winning his Emmy for Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night, Mandel became the head writer for the CBS daytime series Love of Life, which earned him a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Writing In a Daytime Serial in 1973.
He continued to work steadily throughout the 1970s with the 1974 miniseries The Lives of Benjamin Franklin, TV movies Tom & Joann, Breaking Up and the feature film Promises In the Dark starring Ned Beatty.
Feature debut: He made his feature film writing debut with the 1967 Robert Altman movie Countdown, which starred James Caan and Robert Duvall
He only worked sparingly since then, though with the TV movie The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck and The Little Drummer Girl starring Diane Keaton, both released in 1984.
His final project was the 2001 TV movie Conspiracy, which Kenneth Branagh won an Emmy for and Stanley Tucci won a Golden Globe for.
The writer is survived by his wife Dorothy and their two children, sons Alan and Joshua.
Sparingly: He only worked sparingly since then, though with the TV movie The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck and The Little Drummer Girl starring Diane Keaton, both released in 1984
Family: The writer is survived by his wife Dorothy and their two children, sons Alan and Joshua