Delbert Mann
Directing
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.
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movieLily in Winter
1994
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movieIronclads
1991
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movieApril Morning
1988
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movieThe Last Days of Patton
1986
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tvA Death in California
1985
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movieBrontë
1983
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movieNight Crossing
1982
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movieAll the Way Home
1981
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movieTo Find My Son
1980
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movieTorn Between Two Lovers
1979
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movieTom and Joann
1978
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movieHome to Stay
1978
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movieLove’s Dark Ride
1978
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movieBreaking Up
1978
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movieTell Me My Name
1977
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movieBirch Interval
1976
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movieA Girl Named Sooner
1975
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movieNo Place to Run
1972
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movieShe Waits
1972
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movieKidnapped
1971
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movieJane Eyre
1970
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movieDavid Copperfield
1969
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movieHeidi
1968
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movieThe Pink Jungle
1968
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movieFitzwilly
1967
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CBS Playhouse
1966
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movieMister Buddwing
1966
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movieDear Heart
1965
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movieQuick, Before It Melts
1965
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movieA Gathering of Eagles
1963
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movieThat Touch of Mink
1962
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movieThe Outsider
1961
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movieLover Come Back
1961
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tvStartime
1959
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movieWhat Makes Sammy Run?
1959
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movieMiddle of the Night
1959
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movieSeparate Tables
1958
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movieThe Plot to Kill Stalin
1958
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movieDesire Under the Elms
1958
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tvDuPont Show of the Month
1957
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movieThe Bachelor Party
1957
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movieOur Town
1955
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movieThe Petrified Forest
1955
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movieMarty
1955
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movieMarty
1953
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tvOmnibus
1952
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tvHallmark Hall of Fame
1951
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tvLights Out
1949
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Acting7
movieRita
2003
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movieBruised Celluloid
1984
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tvThe Oscars
1953
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movieThe Iron Horse
1925
Charles Crocker (uncredited)
Production7
movieApril Morning
1988
Producer
movieShe Waits
1972
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movieMister Buddwing
1966
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movieQuick, Before It Melts
1965
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movieWhat Makes Sammy Run?
1959
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