Delbert Mann

Known for: Directing
Born: January 30, 1920, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Died: November 11, 2007
Movies: 62

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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.

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.5

Marty

1955

6.7

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979

6.5

That Touch of Mink

1962

7.0

Lover Come Back

1961

7.1

Separate Tables

1958

6.8

The Iron Horse

1925

6.2

Kidnapped

1971

6.1

Night Crossing

1982

7.0

Middle of the Night

1959

6.3

Fitzwilly

1967

Filmography

2003	Rita	Self
1996	Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach	Self
1987	Grace Kelly: The American Princess	Self
1984	Bruised Celluloid	Himself
1925	The Iron Horse	Charles Crocker (uncredited)

Directing, Writing & Producing

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
1986	The Last Days of Patton	Director
1986	The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story	Director
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	Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident	Director
1976	Birch Interval	Director
1975	A Girl Named Sooner	Director
1975	The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond	Director
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	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	What Makes Sammy Run?	Director, Producer
1959	Sunday Showcase	Director
1959	Middle of the Night	Director
1958	Separate Tables	Director
1958	The Plot to Kill Stalin	Director
1958	Desire Under the Elms	Director
1957	The Bachelor Party	Director
1955	Our Town	Director
1955	The Petrified Forest	Director
1955	Marty	Director
1954	Middle of the Night	Director
1953	The Bachelor Party	Director
1953	Marty	Director

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