Delbert Mann

Biography

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…

Directed

1. Marty (1955) — Director
2. All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) — Director
3. That Touch of Mink (1962) — Director
4. Lover Come Back (1961) — Director
5. Separate Tables (1958) — Director
6. Kidnapped (1971) — Director
7. Night Crossing (1982) — Director
8. Fitzwilly (1967) — Director
9. Middle of the Night (1959) — Director
10. Desire Under the Elms (1958) — Director
11. A Gathering of Eagles (1963) — Director
12. Jane Eyre (1970) — Director
13. Dear Heart (1965) — Director
14. April Morning (1988) — Director
15. Heidi (1968) — Director
16. David Copperfield (1969) — Director
17. The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) — Director
18. Mister Buddwing (1966) — Director
19. The Last Days of Patton (1986) — Director
20. The Outsider (1961) — Director
21. Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) — Director
22. The Bachelor Party (1957) — Director
23. Incident in a Small Town (1994) — Director
24. The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983) — Director
25. She Waits (1972) — Director
26. The Philco Television Playhouse (1948) — Director
27. Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) — Director
28. The Pink Jungle (1968) — Director
29. A Girl Named Sooner (1975) — Director
30. Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992) — Director
31. No Place to Run (1972) — Director
32. Ironclads (1991) — Director
33. Lily in Winter (1994) — Director
34. To Find My Son (1980) — Director
35. The Petrified Forest (1955) — Director
36. Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951) — Director
37. Producers' Showcase (1954) — Director
38. Lights Out (1949) — Director
39. A Death in California (1985) — Director
40. DuPont Show of the Month (1957) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Oscars (1953) — Self
2. E! True Hollywood Story (1996)
3. The Iron Horse (1925) — Charles Crocker (uncredited)
4. Grace Kelly: The American Princess (1987) — Self
5. Rita (2003) — Self
6. Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996) — Self
7. Bruised Celluloid (1984) — Himself