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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.
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Filmography
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Director 69
Movies 59
TV Shows 16
self 5
Rita (2003)
E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996)
Lily in Winter (1994)
Incident in a Small Town (1994)
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992)
Ironclads (1991)
April Morning (1988)
Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987)
The Last Days of Patton (1986)
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1986)
A Death in California (1985)
Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984)
Bruised Celluloid (1984)
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)
Brontë (1983)
The Member of the Wedding (1982)
Night Crossing (1982)
All the Way Home (1981)
To Find My Son (1980)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1979)
Torn Between Two Lovers (1979)
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1978)
Tom and Joann (1978)
Home to Stay (1978)
Love’s Dark Ride (1978)
Breaking Up (1978)
Tell Me My Name (1977)
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976)
Birch Interval (1976)
A Girl Named Sooner (1975)
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975)
The Man Without a Country (1973)
No Place to Run (1972)
She Waits (1972)
Kidnapped (1971)
Jane Eyre (1970)
David Copperfield (1969)
Heidi (1968)
The Pink Jungle (1968)
Fitzwilly (1967)
CBS Playhouse (1966)
Mister Buddwing (1966)
Dear Heart (1965)
Quick, Before It Melts (1965)
A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
That Touch of Mink (1962)
The Outsider (1961)
Lover Come Back (1961)
Insight (1960)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
Startime (1959)
What Makes Sammy Run? (1959)
NBC Sunday Showcase (1959)
Middle of the Night (1959)
Separate Tables (1958)
The Plot to Kill Stalin (1958)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
The Bachelor Party (1957)
Playwrights '56 (1955)
Ford Star Jubilee (1955)
Our Town (1955)
The Petrified Forest (1955)
Marty (1955)
Producers' Showcase (1954)
Middle of the Night (1954)
The Bachelor Party (1953)
Marty (1953)
The Oscars (1953)
Omnibus (1952)
Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951)
Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951)
Lights Out (1949)
The Philco Television Playhouse (1948)
Ironclads
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1920-01-30
Deathday2007-11-11 (87 years old)
Birth NameDelbert Martin Mann
Birth PlaceLawrence, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsDel Mann, Делберт Манн
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, National Board of Review Award for Best Film, Directors Guild of America Award, Academy Award for Best Director
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