Delbert Mann
58 movies · 12 TV shows
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Jan 30, 1920
- Died
- Nov 11, 2007 (age 87)
- Place of birth
- Lawrence, Kansas, USA
- Also known as
- Del Mann · Делберт Манн · دلبرت مان
Biography
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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.
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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.
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Profiles IMDb
Known for
Delbert Mann: movies and TV shows
Acting (2)
- 1996
- 1925 The Iron Horse
as Charles Crocker (uncredited)
Behind the camera (71)
- 1994 Lily in Winter
Director
- 1994 Incident in a Small Town
Director
- 1992 Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Producer, Director
- 1991 Ironclads
Director
- 1988 April Morning
Director, Producer
- 1987
- 1986 The Last Days of Patton
Director
- 1986 The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Director
- 1985
- 1984 Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Director
- 1983 The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
Director
- 1983 Brontë
Director
- 1982 The Member of the Wedding
Director
- 1982 Night Crossing
Director
- 1981 All the Way Home
Director
- 1980 To Find My Son
Director
- 1979 All Quiet on the Western Front
Director
- 1979 Torn Between Two Lovers
Director
- 1978 Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Director
- 1978 Tom and Joann
Director
- 1978 Home to Stay
Director
- 1978 Love’s Dark Ride
Director
- 1978 Breaking Up
Director
- 1977 Tell Me My Name
Director
- 1976
- 1976 Birch Interval
Director
- 1975 A Girl Named Sooner
Director
- 1975
- 1974 The First Woman President
Director, Producer
- 1973 The Man Without a Country
Director
- 1972 No Place to Run
Director
- 1972 She Waits
Director, Producer
- 1971 Kidnapped
Director
- 1970 Jane Eyre
Director
- 1969 David Copperfield
Director
- 1968 Heidi
Director
- 1968 The Pink Jungle
Director
- 1967 Fitzwilly
Director
- 1966
- 1966 Mister Buddwing
Director, Producer
- 1965 Dear Heart
Director
- 1965 Quick, Before It Melts
Director, Producer
- 1963 A Gathering of Eagles
Director
- 1962 That Touch of Mink
Director
- 1961 The Outsider
Director
- 1961 Lover Come Back
Director
- 1960 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Director
- 1959
- 1959 What Makes Sammy Run?
Director, Producer
- 1959 Sunday Showcase
Director
- 1959
- 1959 Middle of the Night
Director
- 1958 Separate Tables
Director
- 1958 The Plot to Kill Stalin
Director
- 1958 Desire Under the Elms
Director
- 1957
- 1957 The Bachelor Party
Director
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 Our Town
Director
- 1955 The Petrified Forest
Director
- 1955 Marty
Director
- 1954
- 1954 Middle of the Night
Director
- 1953 The Bachelor Party
Director
- 1953 Marty
Director
- 1952
- 1951
- 1951
- 1949
- 1948
Talk shows and appearances (4)
- 2003
- 1996
- 1984
- 1953 The Oscars
1 episode