---
name: "Loring Mandel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/loring-mandel"
fi1m_id: "loring-mandel"
imdb_id: "nm0541662"
tmdb_id: 136001
wikidata_id: "Q6681267"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "5 May 1928"
died: "24 March 2020"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T13:39:31.996919+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Loring Mandel

## Identity

Loring Mandel

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/loring-mandel
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** loring-mandel
- **IMDb ID:** nm0541662
- **TMDB ID:** 136001
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6681267
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loring_Mandel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6681267, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541662/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136001

Writer. Born 5 May 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Died 24 March 2020.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 5 May 1928, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Died:** 24 March 2020
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loring_Mandel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6681267, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541662/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/136001

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Conspiracy*](https://film.one/film/conspiracy.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Loring Mandel was an American playwright and screenwriter. Born in Chicago on 5 May 1928, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1949 and served in the Korean War before moving to New York to begin his writing career.

He wrote for CBS anthology series including *Studio One in Hollywood* and *Playhouse 90*, as well as the daytime serial *Love of Life*. His feature film screenplays include *Countdown* (1967), *Promises in the Dark* (1979) and *The Little Drummer Girl* (1984). He also adapted Allen Drury’s novel *Advise & Consent* for the stage.

Mandel’s best-known work was the 2001 television film *Conspiracy*, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing. He received two Emmys in total, along with Writers Guild of America awards and the guild’s Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for lifetime achievement in 2004. He died on 24 March 2020 in Lenox, Massachusetts.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, hollywoodreporter.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Conspiracy* (2001), Fi1m 83, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/conspiracy.md)

## Complete filmography (16)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Conspiracy* (2001), Writer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/conspiracy.md)
- *The Little Drummer Girl* (1984), Screenplay
- *The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck* (1984), Teleplay
- *Promises in the Dark* (1979), Writer
- *Tom and Joann* (1978), Writer
- *Breaking Up* (1978), Writer
- *The Trial of Chaplain Jensen* (1975), Writer
- *The Lives of Benjamin Franklin* (1974), series, Writer
- *Lincoln* (1974), series, Writer
- *Particular Men* (1972), Writer
- *Shadow Game* (1969), Writer
- *Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night* (1967), Writer
- *Countdown* (1967), Screenplay
- *CBS Playhouse* (1966), series, Writer
- *Advise & Consent* (1962), Theatre Play
- *Armchair Theatre* (1956), series, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Loring Mandel](https://film.one/media/person/6785953/gallery-0d8dfd545f42.jpg) Loring Mandel — Image via TMDB
- ![Loring Mandel](https://film.one/media/person/6785953/gallery-234df03320d9.jpg) Loring Mandel — Image via TMDB
- ![Loring Mandel](https://film.one/media/person/6785953/gallery-4526c7d3b2f5.jpg) Loring Mandel — Image via TMDB

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