Delbert Mann

Known for DirectingBorn 1920-01-30Died 2007-11-11Lawrence, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Brontë

Tell Me My Name

Rita

Hallmark Hall of Fame

E! True Hollywood Story

Tom and Joann

Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

Torn Between Two Lovers

Marty

Ironclads

Lily in Winter

Incident in a Small Town

Marty

DuPont Show of the Month

Love Leads the Way: A True Story

Grace Kelly: The American Princess

The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story

All the Way Home

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

Jane Eyre

The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond

CBS Playhouse

Middle of the Night

What Makes Sammy Run?

Separate Tables

The Pink Jungle

Lover Come Back

Ford Star Jubilee

The Oscars

All Quiet on the Western Front

Love’s Dark Ride

The Last Days of Patton

The Petrified Forest

Desire Under the Elms

The Bachelor Party

Producers' Showcase

Startime

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

The Man Without a Country

To Find My Son

Dear Heart

That Touch of Mink

The Outsider

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

A Death in California

Night Crossing