Cast & creator
Delbert Mann
Best known for The Philco Television Playhouse, Omnibus, The Oscars
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.
Also known as: Del Mann, Делберт Манн, دلبرت مان
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film credits
15
television credits
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1925–2003 · acting roles
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (85)
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The Philco Television Playhouse
Director
1948
Omnibus
Director
1952
The Oscars
Self
1953
Lights Out
Director
1949
Startime
Director
1959
DuPont Show of the Month
Director
1957
Goodyear Television Playhouse
Director
1951CBS Playhouse
Director
1966Playwrights '56
Director
1955Producers' Showcase
Director
1954
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Director
1951NBC Sunday Showcase
Director
1959
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
A Death in California
Director
1985
All Quiet on the Western Front
Director
1979
That Touch of Mink
Director
1962
Separate Tables
Director
1958
Marty
Director
1955
Night Crossing
Director
1982
A Gathering of Eagles
Director
1963Ford Star Jubilee
Director
1955
Heidi
Director
1968
Middle of the Night
Director
1959
Lover Come Back
Director
1961
Desire Under the Elms
Director
1958
Jane Eyre
Director
1970
Fitzwilly
Director
1967
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Director
1976
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
Director
1960
No Place to Run
Director
1972
The Iron Horse
Charles Crocker (uncredited)
1925
The Last Days of Patton
Director
1986
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Self
1987Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Thanks
1987
Kidnapped
Director
1971
All the Way Home
Director
1981Sunday Showcase
Director
1959
Love’s Dark Ride
Director
1978
A Girl Named Sooner
Director
1975
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Director
1984
Rita
Self
2003
The Outsider
Director
1961
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Producer
1992Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Director
1992
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
Director
1975
Incident in a Small Town
Director
1994
Ironclads
Director
1991
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Director
1986
Lily in Winter
Director
1994
The First Woman President
Director
1974The First Woman President
Producer
1974
The Plot to Kill Stalin
Director
1958
Brontë
Director
1983
Quick, Before It Melts
Director
1965Quick, Before It Melts
Producer
1965
April Morning
Director
1988April Morning
Producer
1988
Tell Me My Name
Director
1977
To Find My Son
Director
1980
Dear Heart
Director
1965
The Pink Jungle
Director
1968
Mister Buddwing
Director
1966Mister Buddwing
Producer
1966
Our Town
Director
1955
The Petrified Forest
Director
1955Middle of the Night
Director
1954
The Member of the Wedding
Director
1982
She Waits
Director
1972She Waits
Producer
1972
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
Director
1983
The Man Without a Country
Director
1973
The Bachelor Party
Director
1957
What Makes Sammy Run?
Director
1959What Makes Sammy Run?
Producer
1959
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Director
1978
Torn Between Two Lovers
Director
1979
Tom and Joann
Director
1978
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Self
1996
David Copperfield
Director
1969
Home to Stay
Director
1978
Marty
Director
1953
Breaking Up
Director
1978
Birch Interval
Director
1976
Bruised Celluloid
Himself
1984The Bachelor Party
Director
1953