Delbert Mann
Directing
1920-01-30 · 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.
Filmography
Rita
2003 · Movie
E! True Hollywood Story
1996 · Series
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996 · Movie
Lily in Winter
1994 · Movie
Incident in a Small Town
1994 · Movie
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
1992 · Movie
Ironclads
1991 · Movie
April Morning
1988 · Movie
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
1987 · Movie
The Last Days of Patton
1986 · Movie
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
1986 · Movie
A Death in California
1985 · Series
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
1984 · Movie
Bruised Celluloid
1984 · Movie
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
1983 · Movie
Brontë
1983 · Movie
The Member of the Wedding
1982 · Movie
Night Crossing
1982 · Movie
All the Way Home
1981 · Movie
To Find My Son
1980 · Movie
All Quiet on the Western Front
1979 · Movie
Torn Between Two Lovers
1979 · Movie
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
1978 · Movie
Tom and Joann
1978 · Movie
Home to Stay
1978 · Movie
Love’s Dark Ride
1978 · Movie
Breaking Up
1978 · Movie
Tell Me My Name
1977 · Movie
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
1976 · Movie
Birch Interval
1976 · Movie
A Girl Named Sooner
1975 · Movie
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
1975 · Movie
The First Woman President
1974 · Movie
The Man Without a Country
1973 · Movie
No Place to Run
1972 · Movie
She Waits
1972 · Movie
Kidnapped
1971 · Movie
Jane Eyre
1970 · Movie
David Copperfield
1969 · Movie
Heidi
1968 · Movie
The Pink Jungle
1968 · Movie
Fitzwilly
1967 · Movie
CBS Playhouse
1966 · Series
Mister Buddwing
1966 · Movie
Dear Heart
1965 · Movie
Quick, Before It Melts
1965 · Movie
A Gathering of Eagles
1963 · Movie
That Touch of Mink
1962 · Movie
The Outsider
1961 · Movie
Lover Come Back
1961 · Movie
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960 · Movie
Startime
1959 · Series
What Makes Sammy Run?
1959 · Movie
NBC Sunday Showcase
1959 · Series
Sunday Showcase
1959 · Movie
Middle of the Night
1959 · Movie
Separate Tables
1958 · Movie
The Plot to Kill Stalin
1958 · Movie
Desire Under the Elms
1958 · Movie
DuPont Show of the Month
1957 · Series
The Bachelor Party
1957 · Movie
Playwrights '56
1955 · Series
Ford Star Jubilee
1955 · Series
Our Town
1955 · Movie
The Petrified Forest
1955 · Movie
Marty
1955 · Movie
Producers' Showcase
1954 · Series
Middle of the Night
1954 · Movie
The Bachelor Party
1953 · Movie
Marty
1953 · Movie
The Oscars
1953 · Series
Omnibus
1952 · Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Series
Goodyear Television Playhouse
1951 · Series
Lights Out
1949 · Series
The Philco Television Playhouse
1948 · Series
The Iron Horse
1925 · Movie