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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. [1]
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.
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- Lawrence, Kansas, USA
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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).
- Michael Barson
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...
Delbert Mann was an Oscar-winning film director who started his career in live television drama. He directed the classic "Marty" from a Paddy Chayefsky script, as well as "Our Town" with Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra.
- January 30, 1920
- November 11, 2007
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, 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...
