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Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (January 30 1920 – November 11 2007) was an Academy Award-winning American
United States

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 television
Television

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 and film
Film

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 director. He won the Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival , founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals alongside Venice Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival....
 and the Academy Award for Directing
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
 for the film Marty
Marty

Marty is a 1955 in film romance film based on a teleplay by the same name. It was directed by Delbert Mann, starring Ernest Borgnine in the title role, and Betsy Blair as the female lead....
. It was the first Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
 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
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 and Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski

Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
 to win an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for his direction and a Cannes Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 for the same film.






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Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (January 30 1920 – November 11 2007) was an Academy Award-winning American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 and film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 director. He won the Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 (Golden Palm) at the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Film Festival , founded in 1946, is one of the world's oldest, most influential and prestigious film festivals alongside Venice Film Festival and Berlin Film Festival....
 and the Academy Award for Directing
Academy Award for Directing

The Academy Award for Achievement in Directing is one of the Academy Award presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to Film directors working in the film industry....
 for the film Marty
Marty

Marty is a 1955 in film romance film based on a teleplay by the same name. It was directed by Delbert Mann, starring Ernest Borgnine in the title role, and Betsy Blair as the female lead....
. It was the first Best Picture
Academy Award for Best Picture

The Academy Award for Best Motion Picture is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to artists working in the film industry....
 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
Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder was an Austrian-United States journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter, and film producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films....
 and Roman Polanski
Roman Polanski

Roman Raymond Polanski is an Academy Award-winning and four-time nominated Poland-France film director, writer, actor and film producer.Polanski began his career in Poland, and later became a celebrated director of both art house and commercial films, making such films as Rosemary's Baby and Chinatown ....
 to win an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for his direction and a Cannes Palme d'Or
Palme d'Or

The Palme d'Or is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the organising committee....
 for the same film. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America

Directors Guild of America is the trade union which represents the interests of film director and television director directors in the United States motion picture industry....
.

Mann was born in Lawrence
Lawrence

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, Douglas County, Kansas
Douglas County, Kansas

Douglas County is located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States United States. The U.S. county's population?one of the fastest-growing in the state of Kansas?was estimated to be 113,488 in the year 2007, making it the fifth-largest in the state....
, the son of Ora (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Patton), a civic worker and teacher, and Delbert Martin Mann, Sr., a college professor. Mann graduated from Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private university research university in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for ship transport and rail transport magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial United States dollar1 million endowment despite having never been to the Southern...
 in Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, 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
Pneumonia

Pneumonia is an Inflammation illness of the lung. Frequently, it is described as lung parenchyma/alveolus inflammation and abnormal alveolar filling with fluid ....
 at a Los Angeles hospital.

Filmography

  • Marty
    Marty

    Marty is a 1955 in film romance film based on a teleplay by the same name. It was directed by Delbert Mann, starring Ernest Borgnine in the title role, and Betsy Blair as the female lead....
     (1955)
  • The Bachelor Party
    The Bachelor Party

    The Bachelor Party is a film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Delbert Mann, with Don Murray , E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, and Carolyn Jones....
     (1957)
  • Desire Under the Elms
    Desire Under the Elms (film)

    Desire Under the Elms is a 1958 in film film version of the 1924 play Desire Under the Elms written by Eugene O'Neill. The film was directed by Delbert Mann and written by O'Neill and Irwin Shaw....
     (1958)
  • Separate Tables
    Separate Tables (film)

    Separate Tables is a 1958 in film American drama film based on Separate Tables by Terence Rattigan that were collectively known by this name....
     (1958)
  • Middle of the Night
    Middle of the Night

    Middle of the Night is a 1959 in film drama film directed by Delbert Mann. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival. ...
     (1959)
  • The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

    The Dark at the Top of the Stairs is a 1957 play by William Inge about family conflicts during the early 1920s in a small town near Oklahoma City....
     (1960)
  • Lover Come Back
    Lover Come Back

    Lover Come Back is a 1961 in film romantic comedy released by Universal Studios. The film stars Doris Day and Rock Hudson in their second film together....
     (1961)
  • The Outsider (1961)
  • That Touch of Mink
    That Touch of Mink

    That Touch of Mink is a romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Doris Day. The film co-stars Gig Young, John Astin, Audrey Meadows, and Dick Sargent....
     (1962)
  • A Gathering of Eagles
    A Gathering of Eagles

    A Gathering of Eagles is a 1963 movie about the Cold War and the pressures of command. The plot is patterned after the film Twelve O'Clock High, which producer-screenwriter Sy Bartlett also wrote, with elements also mirroring Above and Beyond , a film written by his collaborator, Beirne Lay, Jr.....
     (1963)
  • Quick, Before It Melts (1964)
  • Heidi
    Heidi (1968 film)

    Heidi was a 1968 in television NBC made for TV film version of the Heidi which debuted on November 17, 1968. It starred actress Jennifer Edwards, stepdaughter of Julie Andrews and daughter of Blake Edwards, in the title role, alongside Maximillian Schell, Jean Simmons, and Michael Redgrave....
     (TV adaptation, 1968)
  • David Copperfield
    David Copperfield (1969 film)

    David Copperfield is a 1969 American television film based on the David Copperfield by Charles Dickens made in the UK for 20th Century Fox Television....
     (1969)
  • Kidnapped
    Kidnapped (1971 film)

    Kidnapped was a 1971 adventure film directed by Delbert Mann and starring Michael Caine and Trevor Howard, based on the novel Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. ...
     (1971)
  • All Quiet on the Western Front
    All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)

    All Quiet on the Western Front is a 150 minute television movie produced by ITC Entertainment in full color that was released on November 14 1979, starring actors Richard Thomas from The Waltons fame as Paul Baumer, and Ernest Borgnine as Katczinsky....
     (TV adaptation, 1979)
  • The Last Days of Patton
    The Last Days of Patton

    The Last Days of Patton is a 1986 television movie movie sequel to the 1970 in film Patton , which portrays the last few months of the general's life....
     (1986 made-for-television movie)


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