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 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.
Directed 62
1990s
- 1994
Lily in Winter
Director
Incident in a Small Town
Director
- 1992
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Director
- 1991
Ironclads
Director
1980s
- 1988
April Morning
Director
- 1986
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Director
- 1985
A Death in California
Director
- 1984
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Director
- 1983
Brontë
Director
- 1982
The Member of the Wedding
Director
- 1981
All the Way Home
Director
- 1980
To Find My Son
Director
1970s
- 1979
Torn Between Two Lovers
Director
- 1978
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Director
Tom and Joann
Director
Home to Stay
Director
Love’s Dark Ride
Director
Breaking Up
Director
- 1977
Tell Me My Name
Director
- 1976
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Director
Birch Interval
Director
- 1975
A Girl Named Sooner
Director
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
Director
- 1974
The First Woman President
Director
- 1973
The Man Without a Country
Director
- 1972
She Waits
Director
- 1971
Kidnapped
Director
- 1970
1960s
- 1969
David Copperfield
Director
- 1968
The Pink Jungle
Director
- 1967
- 1966
Mister Buddwing
Director
- 1965
Dear Heart
Director
Quick, Before It Melts
Director
- 1963
A Gathering of Eagles
Director
- 1962
- 1961
The Outsider
Director
- 1960
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Director
1950s
- 1959
What Makes Sammy Run?
Director
Middle of the Night
Director
- 1958
The Plot to Kill Stalin
Director
Desire Under the Elms
Director
- 1957
The Bachelor Party
Director
- 1955
Our Town
Director
The Petrified Forest
Director
- 1953
Marty
Director
- 1952
- 1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Director
Produced 7
1990s
- 1992
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Producer
1980s
- 1988
April Morning
Producer
1970s
- 1974
The First Woman President
Producer
- 1972
She Waits
Producer
1960s
- 1966
Mister Buddwing
Producer
- 1965
Quick, Before It Melts
Producer
1950s
- 1959
What Makes Sammy Run?
Producer
Acted in 2
1990s
- 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV
1920s
- 1925
Appearances5
2000s
- 2003
Rita
Self
1990s
- 1996
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Self
1980s
- 1987
- 1984
Bruised Celluloid
Himself
1950s
- 1953
