Delbert Mann
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 30, 1920
- Died
- November 11, 2007 (aged 87)
- Birthplace
- Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty. It was the first Best Picture winner to be based on a television program, being adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. Mann is also the only director other than Billy Wilder and Roman Polanski to win an Oscar for his direction and a Cannes Palme d'Or for the same film. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. Mann was born in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, the son of Ora (née Patton), a civic worker and teacher, and Delbert Martin Mann, Sr., a college professor. Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. After school, he served with the U.S. Army Air Corps in WW II, then got discharged after service in the European theater. He then attended Yale Drama School, and graduated, followed by work in theater and eventually, TV and movies. He was married to Ann Caroline Mann from 1941 until his wife's death in 2001. Mann died from pneumonia on November 11, 2007 at a Los Angeles hospital. Description above from the Wikipedia article Delbert Mann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Incident in a Small Town
Movie · Director
Lily in Winter
Movie · Director
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Movie · Director
Ironclads
Movie · Director
April Morning
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The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Movie · Director
The Last Days of Patton
Movie · Director
A Death in California
TV · Director · 2 eps
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
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The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
Movie · Director
Brontë
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Night Crossing
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The Member of the Wedding
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All the Way Home
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To Find My Son
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Torn Between Two Lovers
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Love’s Dark Ride
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Breaking Up
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Home to Stay
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Tom and Joann
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Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
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Tell Me My Name
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Birch Interval
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Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
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The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
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A Girl Named Sooner
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The First Woman President
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The Man Without a Country
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No Place to Run
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She Waits
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Kidnapped
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Jane Eyre
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David Copperfield
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The Pink Jungle
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Heidi
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Fitzwilly
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Mister Buddwing
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CBS Playhouse
TV · Director · 1 ep
Dear Heart
Movie · Director
Quick, Before It Melts
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A Gathering of Eagles
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That Touch of Mink
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Lover Come Back
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The Outsider
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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Middle of the Night
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What Makes Sammy Run?
Movie · Director
Sunday Showcase
Movie · Director
NBC Sunday Showcase
TV · Director · 2 eps
Startime
TV · Director · 1 ep
Separate Tables
Movie · Director
Desire Under the Elms
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
Movie · Director
The Bachelor Party
Movie · Director
DuPont Show of the Month
TV · Director · 1 ep
Marty
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Our Town
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The Petrified Forest
Movie · Director
Ford Star Jubilee
TV · Director · 1 ep
Playwrights '56
TV · Director · 2 eps
Middle of the Night
Movie · Director
Producers' Showcase
TV · Director · 6 eps
Marty
Movie · Director
The Bachelor Party
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Omnibus
TV · Director · 3 eps
Goodyear Television Playhouse
TV · Director · 37 eps
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · Director · 2 eps
Lights Out
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Philco Television Playhouse
TV · Director · 72 eps