Delbert Mann
Known for: Directing
Born: January 30, 1920
Died: November 11, 2007
Place of birth: Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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.
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Filmography
62 movies · 15 TV shows, newest first
8.3
Rita
2003
8.1
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
7.7
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996
7.2
Lily in Winter
1994
7.1
Incident in a Small Town
1994
6.1
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1992
7.4
Ironclads
1991
5.7
April Morning
1988
7.0
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987
6.4
The Last Days of Patton
1986
7.0
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
1986
6.2
A Death in California
1985
7.1
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
1984
NR
Bruised Celluloid
1984
6.5
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983
10.0
Brontë
1983
5.0
The Member of the Wedding
1982
6.1
Night Crossing
1982
7.0
All the Way Home
1981
6.4
To Find My Son
1980
6.7
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979
7.8
Torn Between Two Lovers
1979
3.3
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
1978
8.0
Tom and Joann
1978
5.3
Home to Stay
1978
6.7
Love’s Dark Ride
1978
NR
Breaking Up
1978
9.0
Tell Me My Name
1977
7.0
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976
5.0
Birch Interval
1976
5.3
A Girl Named Sooner
1975
7.0
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
1975
NR
The First Woman President
1974
6.5
The Man Without a Country
1973
6.1
No Place to Run
1972
5.9
She Waits
1972
6.2
Kidnapped
1971
6.9
Jane Eyre
1970
5.6
David Copperfield
1969
6.3
Heidi
1968
6.9
The Pink Jungle
1968
6.2
Fitzwilly
19677.0
CBS Playhouse
1966
6.1
Mister Buddwing
1966
6.5
Dear Heart
1965
3.8
Quick, Before It Melts
1965
5.9
A Gathering of Eagles
1963
6.5
That Touch of Mink
1962
6.5
The Outsider
1961
7.0
Lover Come Back
1961
6.5
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
6.8
Startime
1959
7.0
What Makes Sammy Run?
1959NR
Sunday Showcase
19595.0
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959
7.0
Middle of the Night
1959
7.0
Separate Tables
1958
NR
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
6.8
Desire Under the Elms
1958
7.4
DuPont Show of the Month
1957
6.8
The Bachelor Party
19576.3
Playwrights '56
19557.0
Ford Star Jubilee
1955
NR
Our Town
1955
6.8
The Petrified Forest
1955
7.5
Marty
19556.8
Producers' Showcase
1954NR
Middle of the Night
1954NR
The Bachelor Party
1953
8.0
Marty
1953
7.0
The Oscars
1953
7.0
Omnibus
1952
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
6.0
Goodyear Television Playhouse
1951
6.0
Lights Out
1949
6.6
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948
6.8
The Iron Horse
1925