Don Martin Mankiewicz (January 20, 1922 – April 25, 2015)[1][2][3][4][5] was an American screenwriter and novelist best known for his novel Trial.
[2] Among his many television credits are Ironside, for which he wrote the pilot, the Star Trek episode "Court Martial",[7] and the mini-series adaptation of President John F. Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage.
His college classmate,[8] the novelist and journalist, Gordon Cotler [fr][9] was a frequent creative partner, including: Lanigan's Rabbi, Rosetti and Ryan, The Bait, McMillan & Wife, and The Black Bird.
Mankiewicz married Ilene Korsen on March 26, 1946, and divorced her in 1972.
Mankiewicz died on April 25, 2015, at his home in Monrovia, California at age 93 of congestive heart failure.