- Introduced legendary producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli to each other. The two men partnered up to make the James Bond films. They returned the favor by hiring him to write the first draft of Dr. No (1962). But Wolf decided to have his name removed, thinking the film would be a huge flop. After seeing it, he asked to have his name re-inserted, but prints were already made.
- After working with Peter Sellers on "The Waltz Of The Toreadors", Mankowitz joined forces with the actor in an independent film company called Sellers-Mankowitz Productions, and they announced, as their first production, a comedy film to be entitled "Memoirs Of A Cross-Eyed Man". But the unpredictable Sellers went cold on the idea and found he had little fondness for the duties and responsibilities of a film producer, so he wound up the company very soon after it had been launched, without its having made any films. Later, Mankowitz described him as a "treacherous lunatic" - they were never reconciled.
- Did a screenplay for a film entitled The Nylon Pirates which was announced as a Val Guest production in December 1965.
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