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person_profile-Delbert Mann

Delbert Mann Died at age: 87

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Delbert Mann

Date of Birth:

Jan 30, 1920

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Nov 11, 2007

Biography of

Delbert Mann

    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.

     

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Filmography of

Delbert Mann

Found 0 Movies in total

... 1953 - 2024

... 1951 - 2011

... 1985

Lights Out

Director

... 1946 - 1972

Startime

Director

... 1959 - 1960

... 1951 - 1957

... 1948 - 1956