Joe Mantell

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Joseph "Joe" Mantell (born December 21, 1915 in New York City , † September 29, 2010 in Tarzana , Los Angeles ; actually Joseph Mantel ) was an American actor . From the late 1940s to 1990 he held roles in over 70 film and television productions of all genres.

Life

Joe Mantell in 1915 (other claims to 1920) as Joseph coat in Greenpoint ( Brooklyn born). His parents came from Austria and made a living from a butcher's shop. He served in the US Army during World War II and later changed his name to Joseph Mantell . Initially a stage actor, he began his film career in the late 1940s with several extras for Columbia Pictures . He made his debut in 1949 with a part as a newspaper boy in Joseph H. Lewis ' crime film Alarm in der Unterwelt . Several guest roles followed in various television series. In 1952 Mantell appeared in the little successful Broadway musical Buttrio Square , which did not get more than seven performances. A year later he got a bigger role in Delbert Mann's television play Marty (1953). In the romantic drama he played the friend of the title hero, a lonely butcher journeyman from the Bronx (played by Rod Steiger ), who falls in love with an inconspicuous young woman ( Nancy Marchand ).

After the great success of Marty on American television, Mantell took over the part of Angie two years later in Delbert Mann's theatrical version of the same name (1955). In this, Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair played the leading roles. The realistic love story, staged far from the usual Hollywood clichés, was in the favor of critics and audiences and was awarded the Golden Palm of the Cannes Film Festival and four Oscars . Praised by the New York Times for his "funny and concise" portrayal of the hero's friend, Mantell also received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor .

Having become known to a wide audience with Marty , Mantell was unable to build on the previous success. In the American cinema he was almost without exception subscribed to minor supporting roles or extras, including Alfred Hitchcock's Die Vögel (1963). In the horror film he was seen as a traveling salesman who does not take the attacks of birds on an American coastal city seriously. Mantell made repeated appearances on American television, where he was offered major roles in various television plays at the Kraft Television Theater , Studio One , The 20th Century-Fox Hour and Alfred Hitchcock Presents . In 1960 he took on the title roles of three military comrades in Oscar Rudolph's television comedy Tom, Dick and Harry together with Gene Nelson and Marvin Kaplan , who opened a restaurant together. That same year, Mantell made a lasting impression in the television play Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (1960). In the episode of the series Twilight Zone he was seen as a failed petty crook, who uses a mirror to hold dialogues with his alter ego . In 1961 he took on the recurring role of neighbor Ernie Briggs in the CBS series Pete and Gladys alongside Cara Williams and Harry Morgan . In the 1970s he went with the award-winning Broadway -Stück Twigs on tour.

By the late 1980s, Mantell appeared in over 70 film and television productions, both dramas and comedies. One of his last major film roles was that of the confidante and friend of Jack Nicholson in Roman Polański's Oscar-winning “ Neo-Noir ” Chinatown (1974). Mantell's line of text, “Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown.” Was voted one of the 100 best film quotes by the American Film Institute in 2005 . In 1990 he took over in the Chinatown sequel The Trail leads back - The Two Jakes again alongside Nicholson the part of Walsh, Mantell's last film role.

Joe Mantell had lived in Encino, California, since 1961 . He was married and had three children. In 2010 Mantell died of complications from pneumonia at the Providence Tarzana Medical Center in Tarzana, Los Angeles.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1949: Alarm in the Underworld (The Undercover Man)
  • 1949: Barbary Pirate
  • 1949: Drug Brigade (Port of New York)
  • 1949: Two Men and Three Babies (And Baby Makes Three)
  • 1953: Marty (TV)
  • 1955: Marty
  • 1956: Storm Center
  • 1957: Beautiful Women, Hard Dollars (Beau James)
  • 1957: The Regiment Sack (The Sad Sack)
  • 1958: The Onion Head
  • 1959: Al Capone Returns (The Scarface Mob)
  • 1960: SOS for flight T 17 (The Crowded Sky)
  • 1960: Tom, Dick and Harry ( Tom, Dick and Harry ; TV)
  • 1963: The Birds (The Birds)
  • 1966: Face without a name (Mister Buddwing)
  • 1970: Assault Troop Gold (Kelly's Heroes)
  • 1974: Chinatown
  • 1975: They Only Come Out at Night (TV)
  • 1984: Blame It on the Night
  • 1985: Warning, dinosaurs! (Movers & Shakers)
  • 1990: The Trail Leads Back - The Two Jakes (The Two Jakes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Biography with Joe Mantell in the All Movie Guide (English)
  2. ↑ a b c cf. Weber, Bruce: Joe Mantell Is Dead at 94; Played sidekick in 'Marty' . In: The New York Times , October 1, 2010, p. 23
  3. ↑ cf. Oscar-Nominated Character Actor Joe Mantell Dies at 94 on thewrap.com, September 29, 2010 (accessed September 30, 2010)
  4. ↑ cf. Marty . In: Hans-Jürgen Kubiak: The Oscar films . Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-386-6 . P. 101
  5. ↑ cf. Movie review by Bosley Crowther in The New York Times, 28 November 1957
  6. ↑ cf. List of the 100 winning quotes at afi.com (accessed on January 2, 2018)
  7. ↑ cf. Coyle, Jake ( Associated Press ): Actor Mantell of 'Marty,' 'Chinatown' dies at 94 via boston.com (accessed January 2, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Mantell, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mantell, Joseph; Mantel, Joseph (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 2010
Place of death Tarzana , Los Angeles