Delbert Mann
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| Delbert Mann | ||||||||||
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| Birth name | Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. | |||||||||
| Born | January 30 1920 Lawrence, Kansas, U.S. | |||||||||
| Died | November 11 2007 (aged 87) Los Angeles, California | |||||||||
| Years active | 1949 - 1994 | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Ann Carolina Mann (1941-10/10/2001) | |||||||||
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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 Directing 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 others 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, Kansas, the son of Ora (née Patton), a civic worker and teacher, and Delbert Martin Mann, Sr., a college professor.[1] Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was married to Ann Caroline Mann from 1941 until his wife's death in 2001. Mann died on November 11 2007 of pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital.
[edit] Filmography
- Marty (1955)
- The Bachelor Party (1957)
- Desire Under the Elms (1958)
- Separate Tables (1958)
- 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)
- Heidi (TV adaptation, 1968)
- David Copperfield (1969)
- Kidnapped (1971)
- All Quiet on the Western Front (TV adaptation, 1979)
- The Last Days of Patton (TV)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Delbert Mann at the Internet Movie Database
- Obituary in The Times, 14 November 2007
- Hollywood Reporter: Director Delbert Mann dies at 87
| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Elia Kazan for On the Waterfront | Academy Award for Best Director 1955 for Marty | Succeeded by George Stevens for Giant |
| Preceded by Teinosuke Kinugasa for Gate of Hell | Palme d'Or - Cannes Film Festival 1955 for Marty | Succeeded by Louis Malle and Jacques Yves Cousteau for The Silent World |
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