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Delbert Mann 
Born Delbert Martin Mann, Jr.
January 30, 1920
Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.Died November 11, 2007 (aged 87)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.Occupation Director Years active 1949–1994 Spouse Ann Caroline Mann
(1941-2001)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.[1]
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.[2] Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. After school, he served with the U.S. Army Air Forces in WW II, as a combat pilot of a B-24 Liberator of the 467th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force in England. After his discharge he 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.
Contents
Filmography
- Marty (1955)
- The Bachelor Party (1957)
- Desire Under the Elms (1958)
- Separate Tables (1958)
- Middle of the Night (1959)
- The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
- Lover Come Back (1961)
- The Outsider (1961)
- That Touch of Mink (1962)
- A Gathering of Eagles (1963)
- Quick, Before It Melts (1964)
- Mister Buddwing (1966)
- Heidi (TV adaptation, 1968) See "Heidi Game"
- David Copperfield (1969)
- Kidnapped (1971)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (TV adaptation, 1979)
- The Last Days of Patton (1986 made-for-television movie)
Academy Awards
Academy Awards in Delbert Mann Films
Year Film Academy Award
NominationsAcademy Award
Wins1955 Marty 8 4 1957 The Bachelor Party 1 0 1958 Desire Under the Elms 1 0 1958 Separate Tables 7 2 1960 The Dark at the Top of the Stairs 1 0 1961 Lover Come Back 1 0 1962 That Touch of Mink 3 0 1963 A Gathering of Eagles 1 0 1964 Dear Heart 1 0 1966 Mister Buddwing 2 0 References
- ^ "Delbert Mann". The Times. November 14, 2007. Archived from the original on July 11, 2011. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article2865031.ece. Retrieved July 11, 2011.
- ^ Delbert Mann Biography (1920-)
External links
- Delbert Mann at the Internet Movie Database
- Hollywood Reporter: Director Delbert Mann dies at 87
- Archive of American Television Interview With Delbert Mann
Films directed by Delbert Mann 1950s 1960s The Dark at the Top of the Stairs • Lover Come Back • The Outsider • That Touch of Mink • A Gathering of Eagles • Quick, Before It Melts • Dear Heart • Mister Buddwing • Fitzwilly • The Pink Jungle1970s 1980s BrontëTelevision "Lights Out" (1949) • "The Philco Television Playhouse" (1949 - 1955) • "Goodyear Television Playhouse" (1951 - 1955) • "Producers' Showcase" (1955) • "Playwrights '56" (1955 - 1956) • "Ford Star Jubilee" (1956) • "Omnibus" (1956 - 1957) • "The DuPont Show of the Month" (1958) • "Playhouse 90" (1958 - 1959) • "NBC Sunday Showcase" (1959) • "Startime" (1960) • Heidi (1968) • "CBS Playhouse" (1968) • David Copperfield (1969) • Jane Eyre (1970) • She Waits (1972) • No Place to Run (1972) • The Man Without a Country (1973) • The First Woman President (1974) • The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond (1975) • A Girl Named Sooner (1975) • Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) • Tell Me My Name (1977) • Breaking Up (1978) • Home to Stay (1978) • Tom and Joann (1978) • Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery (1978) • Torn Between Two Lovers (1979) • All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) • To Find My Son (1980) • "Insight" (1981) • All the Way Home (1981) • The Member of the Wedding (1982) • The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983) • Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) • A Death in California (1985) • The Last Days of Patton (1986) • The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story (1976) • Tell Me My Name (1977) • Breaking Up (1986) • April Morning (1988) • Ironclads (1991) • Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore (1992) • Incident in a Small Town (1994) • Lily in Winter (1994)King Vidor (1936) · Frank Capra (1939) · George Stevens (1941) · Mark Sandrich (1943) · John Cromwell (1944) · George Marshall (1948) · Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) · George Sidney (1951) · Frank Capra (1960) · George Sidney (1961) · Delbert Mann (1967) · Robert Wise (1971) · Robert Aldrich (1975) · George Schaefer (1979) · Jud Taylor (1981) · Gilbert Cates (1983) · Franklin J. Schaffner (1987) · Gene Reynolds (1993) · Jack Shea (1997) · Martha Coolidge (2002) · Michael Apted (2003) · Taylor Hackford (2009)
Academy Award for Best Director (1941–1960) John Ford (1941) · William Wyler (1942) · Michael Curtiz (1943) · Leo McCarey (1944) · Billy Wilder (1945) · William Wyler (1946) · Elia Kazan (1947) · John Huston (1948) · Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1949) · Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1950) · George Stevens (1951) · John Ford (1952) · Fred Zinnemann (1953) · Elia Kazan (1954) · Delbert Mann (1955) · George Stevens (1956) · David Lean (1957) · Vincente Minnelli (1958) · William Wyler (1959) · Billy Wilder (1960)
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