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Delbert Mann
Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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…
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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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2003
Rita
Movie Self
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1996
E! True Hollywood Story
TV show
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1996
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Movie Self
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1994
Lily in Winter
Movie Director
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1994
Incident in a Small Town
Movie Director
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1992
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
Movie Producer
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1991
Ironclads
Movie Director
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1988
April Morning
Movie Director
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1987
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
Movie Self
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1986
The Last Days of Patton
Movie Director
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1986
The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
Movie Director
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1985
A Death in California
TV show Director
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1984
Love Leads the Way: A True Story
Movie Director
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1984
Bruised Celluloid
Movie Himself
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1983
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
Movie Director
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1983
Brontë
Movie Director
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1982
The Member of the Wedding
Movie Director
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1982
Night Crossing
Movie Director
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1981
All the Way Home
Movie Director
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1980
To Find My Son
Movie Director
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1979
All Quiet on the Western Front
Movie Director
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1979
Torn Between Two Lovers
Movie Director
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1978
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
Movie Director
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1978
Tom and Joann
Movie Director
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1978
Home to Stay
Movie Director
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1978
Love’s Dark Ride
Movie Director
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1978
Breaking Up
Movie Director
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1977
Tell Me My Name
Movie Director
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1976
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
Movie Director
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1976
Birch Interval
Movie Director
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1975
A Girl Named Sooner
Movie Director
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1975
The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
Movie Director
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1974
The First Woman President
Movie Director
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1973
The Man Without a Country
Movie Director
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1972
No Place to Run
Movie Director
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1972
She Waits
Movie Director
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1971
Kidnapped
Movie Director
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1970
Jane Eyre
Movie Director
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1969
David Copperfield
Movie Director
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1968
Heidi
Movie Director
