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Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film Marty (1955), adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed.
Delbert Mann, the Oscar-winning film director, was born Delbert Martin Mann Jr. in Lawrence, Kansas, in 1920. His father moved the family to Nashville, Tennesse, after taking a teaching position at Scarritt College.
May 8, 2024 · Delbert Mann was an American film and television director who applied the low-budget intimacy of television to the big screen, notably in the film adaptations of such teleplays as Marty (1955) and The Bachelor Party (1957).
Nov 12, 2007 · Delbert Mann, who transformed Paddy Chayefsky’s classic teleplays “Marty” and “The Bachelor Party” into big-screen triumphs and helped bring TV techniques to the film world, died Sunday. He was...
Nov 13, 2007 · Delbert Mann, a director from the heyday of live television who won an Oscar for his first big-screen effort, “Marty,” in 1955, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 87 and lived in Los Angeles.
Nov 11, 2007 · 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.
Nov 12, 2007 · Delbert Mann, who won a directing Oscar for the 1955 film Marty and helmed many notable television dramas, has died at the age of 87. Mann died of pneumonia Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center...
Nov 13, 2007 · Delbert Mann, who directed the acclaimed live TV production of “Marty,” Paddy Chayefsky’s classic tale of a lonely Bronx butcher, and then won an Academy Award directing the 1955 movie version,...
Delbert Mann. Director. 30 January 1920 to 11 November 2007. A director who found success in the competing mediums of film and television in the 1950s, Mann’s best known film, Marty (1955), was a remake of his 1953 television play.
Nov 13, 2007 · Delbert Mann, who directed Paddy Chayefsky’s classic teleplays “Marty” and “The Bachelor Party” and then efficiently transformed them into big-screen triumphs, has died. He was 87. Mann died of...
