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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...
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The Philco Television PlayhouseSeries • 1948
Lights OutSeries • 1949
StartimeSeries • 1959
DuPont Show of the MonthSeries • 1957
Goodyear Television PlayhouseSeries • 1951
E! True Hollywood StorySeries • 1996
That Touch of MinkMovie • 1962
MartyMovie • 1955
All Quiet on the Western FrontMovie • 1979
Separate TablesMovie • 1958
A Gathering of EaglesMovie • 1963
Lover Come BackMovie • 1961
Night CrossingMovie • 1982
Jane EyreMovie • 1970
Middle of the NightMovie • 1959
FitzwillyMovie • 1967
Desire Under the ElmsMovie • 1958
KidnappedMovie • 1971
The Iron HorseMovie • 1925