Delbert Mann

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-01-30 (87 years old)

Deathday

2007-11-11

Place of Birth

Lawrence, Kansas, USA

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. ...

Acting

1984

2003

Rita

as Self

1925

The Iron Horse

as Charles Crocker (uncredited)

Production

1971

Kidnapped

as Director

1967

Fitzwilly

as Director

1962

1961

Lover Come Back

as Director

1958

Separate Tables

as Director

1955

Marty

as Director

1982

Night Crossing

as Director

1958

1965

Dear Heart

as Director

1959

1988

April Morning

as Director

1963

1954

1991

Ironclads

as Director

1970

Jane Eyre

as Director

1969

1965

1994

Lily in Winter

as Director

1961

The Outsider

as Director

1957

1966

Mister Buddwing

as Director

1972

No Place to Run

as Director

1968

The Pink Jungle

as Director

1988

April Morning

as Producer

1968

Heidi

as Director

1978

1977

Tell Me My Name

as Director

1972

She Waits

as Director

1978

Breaking Up

as Director

1981

All the Way Home

as Director

1976

Birch Interval

as Director

1975

1953

Marty

as Director

1980

To Find My Son

as Director

1965

1953

1959

1959

1978

Home to Stay

as Director

1983

Brontë

as Director

1972

She Waits

as Producer

1955

Our Town

as Director

1955

1966

Mister Buddwing

as Producer

1978

Tom and Joann

as Director

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