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name: "Delbert Mann"
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born: "30 January 1920"
died: "11 November 2007"
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# Delbert Mann

Director. Born 30 January 1920 in Lawrence, Kansas, USA. Died 11 November 2007.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 30 January 1920, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
- **Died:** 11 November 2007
- **Active:** 1955–1958
- **Also known as:** Del Mann, Делберт Манн, دلبرت مان
- **Frequently works with:** [Burt Lancaster](https://film.one/person/burt-lancaster.md), [Harold Hecht](https://film.one/person/harold-hecht.md)
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar (1 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delbert_Mann, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270038, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542720/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/67451

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Separate Tables*](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md) (74)

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## Biography

Delbert Mann was an American television and film director. He directed the 1955 film *Marty*, adapted from a 1953 teleplay he had also directed, and the 1958 film *Separate Tables*.

Mann was born in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1920. He graduated from Vanderbilt University and Yale Drama School, served in the US Army Air Corps during the Second World War, and began his career directing live television dramas before moving into feature films.

He won the Academy Award for Best Director for *Marty*, which also received the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Mann served as president of the Directors Guild of America from 1967 to 1971 and directed numerous other films and television productions until the 1990s. He died in Los Angeles in 2007.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, latimes.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Separate Tables* (1958), Fi1m 74, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md)

## Complete filmography (71)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *E! True Hollywood Story* (1996), series, Actor
- *Lily in Winter* (1994), Director
- *Incident in a Small Town* (1994), Director
- *Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore* (1992), Producer, Director
- *Ironclads* (1991), Director
- *April Morning* (1988), Director, Producer
- *Grace Kelly: The American Princess* (1987), Thanks
- *The Last Days of Patton* (1986), Director
- *The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story* (1986), Director
- *A Death in California* (1985), series, Director
- *Love Leads the Way: A True Story* (1984), Director
- *The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story* (1983), Director
- *Brontë* (1983), Director
- *The Member of the Wedding* (1982), Director
- *Night Crossing* (1982), Director
- *All the Way Home* (1981), Director
- *To Find My Son* (1980), Director
- *All Quiet on the Western Front* (1979), Director
- *Torn Between Two Lovers* (1979), Director
- *Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery* (1978), Director
- *Tom and Joann* (1978), Director
- *Home to Stay* (1978), Director
- *Love’s Dark Ride* (1978), Director
- *Breaking Up* (1978), Director
- *Tell Me My Name* (1977), Director
- *Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident* (1976), Director
- *Birch Interval* (1976), Director
- *A Girl Named Sooner* (1975), Director
- *The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond* (1975), Director
- *The First Woman President* (1974), Director, Producer
- *The Man Without a Country* (1973), Director
- *No Place to Run* (1972), Director
- *She Waits* (1972), Director, Producer
- *Kidnapped* (1971), Director
- *Jane Eyre* (1970), Director
- *David Copperfield* (1969), Director
- *Heidi* (1968), Director
- *The Pink Jungle* (1968), Director
- *Fitzwilly* (1967), Director
- *CBS Playhouse* (1966), series, Director
- *Mister Buddwing* (1966), Director, Producer
- *Dear Heart* (1965), Director
- *Quick, Before It Melts* (1965), Director, Producer
- *A Gathering of Eagles* (1963), Director
- *That Touch of Mink* (1962), Director
- *The Outsider* (1961), Director
- *Lover Come Back* (1961), Director
- *The Dark at the Top of the Stairs* (1960), Director
- *Startime* (1959), series, Director
- *What Makes Sammy Run?* (1959), Producer, Director
- *NBC Sunday Showcase* (1959), series, Director
- *Sunday Showcase* (1959), Director
- *Middle of the Night* (1959), Director
- *Separate Tables* (1958), Director — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/separate-tables.md)
- *The Plot to Kill Stalin* (1958), Director
- *Desire Under the Elms* (1958), Director
- *DuPont Show of the Month* (1957), series, Director
- *The Bachelor Party* (1957), Director
- *Playwrights '56* (1955), series, Director
- *Ford Star Jubilee* (1955), series, Director
- *Our Town* (1955), Director
- *The Petrified Forest* (1955), Director
- *Marty* (1955), Director
- *Producers' Showcase* (1954), series, Director
- *Middle of the Night* (1954), Director
- *The Bachelor Party* (1953), Director
- *Marty* (1953), Director
- *Hallmark Hall of Fame* (1951), series, Director
- *Goodyear Television Playhouse* (1951), series, Director
- *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, Director
- *The Iron Horse* (1925), as Charles Crocker (uncredited)

## Gallery

- ![A Heidi című 1968-as amerikai-német film forgatása Svájcban](https://film.one/media/person/1238296/gallery-0b1214d19f1a.jpg) A Heidi című 1968-as amerikai-német film forgatása Svájcban — Jack Metzger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jack_Metzger_%E2%80%93_Heidi_1967_ETH-BIB_Com_L16-0706-0002-0006.jpg/1280px-Jack_Metzger_%E2%80%93_Heidi_1967_ETH-BIB_Com_L16-0706-0002-0006.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![A Heidi című 1968-as amerikai-német film forgatása Svájcban](https://film.one/media/person/1238296/gallery-af3143ed2df7.jpg) A Heidi című 1968-as amerikai-német film forgatása Svájcban — Jack Metzger, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Jack_Metzger_%E2%80%93_Heidi_1967_ETH-BIB_Com_L16-0706-0006-0002.jpg/1280px-Jack_Metzger_%E2%80%93_Heidi_1967_ETH-BIB_Com_L16-0706-0006-0002.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 1 won

- 1956: Best Director (won), for *Marty*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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