Delbert Mann

Delbert Mann

  • Birthday: 1920-01-30
  • Deathday: 2007-11-11
  • Place of birth: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
  • Also know as: Del Mann

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.

Filmography

Production

Kidnapped

1971

As Director

That Touch of Mink

1962

As Director

Fitzwilly

1967

As Director

Lover Come Back

1961

As Director

Separate Tables

1958

As Director

Marty

1955

As Director

Incident in a Small Town

1994

As Director

Night Crossing

1982

As Director

Desire Under the Elms

1958

As Director

Dear Heart

1965

As Director

April Morning

1988

As Director

Middle of the Night

1959

As Director

A Gathering of Eagles

1963

As Director

Ironclads

1991

As Director

Jane Eyre

1970

As Director

David Copperfield

1969

As Director

Quick, Before It Melts

1965

As Director

Lily in Winter

1994

As Director

The Bachelor Party

1957

As Director

The Outsider

1961

As Director

Mister Buddwing

1966

As Director

No Place to Run

1972

As Director

The Pink Jungle

1968

As Director

The Man Without a Country

1973

As Director

Heidi

1968

As Director

She Waits

1972

As Director

The Member of the Wedding

1982

As Director

All the Way Home

1981

As Director

Breaking Up

1978

As Director

Birch Interval

1976

As Director

A Girl Named Sooner

1975

As Director

Marty

1953

As Director

The Last Days of Patton

1986

As Director

Torn Between Two Lovers

1979

As Director

To Find My Son

1980

As Director

What Makes Sammy Run?

1959

As Director

Home to Stay

1978

As Director

Brontë

1983

As Director

Our Town

1955

As Director

The Petrified Forest

1955

As Director

Tom and Joann

1978

As Director

Love’s Dark Ride

1978

As Director

The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story

1986

As Director

Tell Me My Name

1977

As Director

The Bachelor Party

1953

As Director

Middle of the Night

1954

As Director

The Plot to Kill Stalin

1958

As Director

April Morning

1988

As Producer

Quick, Before It Melts

1965

As Producer

What Makes Sammy Run?

1959

As Producer

She Waits

1972

As Producer

Mister Buddwing

1966

As Producer

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