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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...
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.
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Movies (Cast)
The Iron Horse
Series (Cast)
Directed
All Quiet on the Western Front
Kidnapped
Fitzwilly
That Touch of Mink
Lover Come Back
Separate Tables
Marty
Incident in a Small Town
Night Crossing
Desire Under the Elms
Dear Heart
Middle of the Night
April Morning
A Gathering of Eagles
Ironclads
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Jane Eyre
David Copperfield
Quick, Before It Melts
Lily in Winter
The Outsider
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
The Bachelor Party
Mister Buddwing
No Place to Run
The Pink Jungle
The Man Without a Country
Heidi
Love’s Dark Ride
She Waits
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
The Member of the Wedding
All the Way Home
Birch Interval
A Girl Named Sooner
Marty
The Last Days of Patton
Torn Between Two Lovers
To Find My Son
What Makes Sammy Run?
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Home to Stay
The Petrified Forest
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
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