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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 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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Acting (5 movies)

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Bruised Celluloid

1984

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Grace Kelly: The American Princess

1987

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Rita

2003

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Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

1996

6.6

The Iron Horse

1925

Directing (56 movies)

6.7

All Quiet on the Western Front

1979

6.2

Kidnapped

1971

6.0

Fitzwilly

1967

6.4

That Touch of Mink

1962

6.9

Lover Come Back

1961

7.0

Separate Tables

1958

7.4

Marty

1955

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Incident in a Small Town

1994

6.1

Night Crossing

1982

6.9

Desire Under the Elms

1958

6.4

Dear Heart

1965

6.9

Middle of the Night

1959

5.8

April Morning

1988

5.7

A Gathering of Eagles

1963

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Middle of the Night

1954

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Ironclads

1991

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The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

1983

6.3

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1960

7.1

Jane Eyre

1970

5.4

David Copperfield

1969

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Quick, Before It Melts

1965

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Lily in Winter

1994

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The Outsider

1961

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Love Leads the Way: A True Story

1984

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The Bachelor Party

1957

5.9

Mister Buddwing

1966

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No Place to Run

1972

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The Pink Jungle

1968

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The Man Without a Country

1973

6.1

Heidi

1968

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Love’s Dark Ride

1978

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Tell Me My Name

1977

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She Waits

1972

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Breaking Up

1978

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The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond

1975

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All the Way Home

1981

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The Member of the Wedding

1982

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The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story

1986

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Birch Interval

1976

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The Plot to Kill Stalin

1958

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A Girl Named Sooner

1975

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Marty

1953

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Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

1976

6.3

The Last Days of Patton

1986

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Torn Between Two Lovers

1979

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To Find My Son

1980

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The Bachelor Party

1953

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What Makes Sammy Run?

1959

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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

1992

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Home to Stay

1978

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Brontë

1983

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Our Town

1955

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The Petrified Forest

1955

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Tom and Joann

1978

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Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

1978

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The First Woman President

1974

Title	Year	Job
What Makes Sammy Run?	1959	Producer
Quick, Before It Melts	1965	Producer
Mister Buddwing	1966	Producer
She Waits	1972	Producer
The First Woman President	1974	Producer
April Morning	1988	Producer
Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore	1992	Producer