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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Delbert Mann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Kidnapped
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Fitzwilly
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That Touch of Mink
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Lover Come Back
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Separate Tables
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Marty
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Incident in a Small Town
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Night Crossing
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Desire Under the Elms
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Dear Heart
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Middle of the Night
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April Morning
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A Gathering of Eagles
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Middle of the Night
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Ironclads
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The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story
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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
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Jane Eyre
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David Copperfield
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Quick, Before It Melts
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Lily in Winter
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The Outsider
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Love Leads the Way: A True Story
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The Bachelor Party
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Mister Buddwing
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No Place to Run
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The Pink Jungle
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The Man Without a Country
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April Morning
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Heidi
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Love’s Dark Ride
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Tell Me My Name
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She Waits
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Breaking Up
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The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond
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All the Way Home
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The Member of the Wedding
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The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
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Birch Interval
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
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A Girl Named Sooner
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Marty
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Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident
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The Last Days of Patton
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Torn Between Two Lovers
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To Find My Son
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Quick, Before It Melts
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The Bachelor Party
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What Makes Sammy Run?
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What Makes Sammy Run?
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Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore
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Home to Stay
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Brontë
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She Waits
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Our Town
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The Petrified Forest
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Mister Buddwing
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Tom and Joann
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Grace Kelly: The American Princess
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Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery
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Omnibus
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Ford Star Jubilee
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The Philco Television Playhouse
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Goodyear Television Playhouse
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
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Producers' Showcase
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CBS Playhouse
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Insight
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NBC Sunday Showcase
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Playwrights '56
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Lights Out
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Startime
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A Death in California
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DuPont Show of the Month
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