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Delbert Mann is a Actor, Director and Producer American born on 30 january 1920 at Lawrence (USA)
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's work is often seen to be part of the expressive sentimental style of film directing.
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 Forces in WW II, as a combat pilot of a B-24 Liberator of the 467th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force in England. After his discharge he 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.
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Nationality USA
Birth 30 january 1920 at Lawrence (USA)
Death 11 november 2007 (at 87 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
Birth 30 january 1920 at Lawrence (USA)
Death 11 november 2007 (at 87 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Director
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 Forces in WW II, as a combat pilot of a B-24 Liberator of the 467th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force in England. After his discharge he 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.
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The Iron Horse (1924)
, 2h13Directed by John Ford
Origin USA
Genres Historical, Western
Themes Transport films, Rail transport films, Children's films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, J. Farrell MacDonald, Cyril Chadwick, Will Walling, George Waggner
Roles Charles Crocker
Rating71%
The film presents an idealized image of the construction of the American first transcontinental railroad. It culminates with the scene of driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit on May 10, 1869. There is a note in the title before this scene that the two original locomotives from the 1869 event are used in the film, although this is false - both engines (Union Pacific No. 119 and Jupiter) were scrapped before 1910. Of course, a romantic story with love, treachery and revenge is also here. Main stars were George O'Brien and Madge Bellamy.
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, 2hDirected by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Walter Matthau, Harry Morgan, Susan Blakely, Ariana Richards, Barton Heyman, Brian Kerwin
Rating65%
The sequel to the TV movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer, Harmon Cobb, and his family move to Baltimore where he becomes the law partner of his old adversary (Harry Morgan), where he goes against the State of Maryland, suing on behalf of an institutionalized mental patient for release.
Ironclads (1991)
, 1h34Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres War, Historical
Themes Political films, Films about capital punishment
Actors Virginia Madsen, Alex Hyde-White, E. G. Marshall, Fritz Weaver, Philip Casnoff, Reed Diamond
Rating61%
As the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (Gosport Shipyard) fell to Confederate forces, and the Union forces withdrew, Leslie Harmon (Reed Diamond) extinguished a powder trail to destroy a dry dock. Although of military necessity, the act would have caused significant collateral damage to neighboring civilians.
The Last Days of Patton (1986)
, 2h26Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography
Themes Political films
Actors George C. Scott, Eva Marie Saint, Murray Hamilton, Ed Lauter, Richard A. Dysart, Kathryn Leigh Scott
Rating62%
As a result of General George S. Patton's (George C. Scott) decision to use former Nazis to help reconstruct post-World War II Germany (and publicly defending the practice), General Dwight Eisenhower (Richard Dysart) removes him from that task and reassigns him to supervise "an army of clerks" whose task is to write the official history of the U.S. military involvement in World War II.
Directed by Delbert Mann
Genres Drama
Themes Christmas films
Actors Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Polly Holliday, Michael Pearlman, Michael Higgins
Rating66%
With her world in turmoil, Janet (Lee Remick) feels she is losing so much that’s important… her beloved mother (Angela Lansbury), the family business, maybe even her husband. Janet dreams of simpler times, of Christmas in the idyllic Vermont of her younger days, and of taking her children back to the family home where her parents and spinster aunt (Polly Holliday) would be waiting for them. And they are, in all the warmth of the holiday. But only when even more seems lost, as one her children is in jeopardy, does Janet search for that ‘secret place’ where we all may find what really matters, at Christmas and always.
Night Crossing (1982)
, 1h46Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Children's films
Actors John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Beau Bridges, Doug McKeon, Glynnis O'Connor, Klaus Löwitsch
Rating64%
The film opens with a brief summary of 1961's then-current conditions in East Germany and nature of the border zone, featuring stock footage such as Conrad Schumann's jump over barbed wire in Berlin.
, 2h30Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Historical
Themes Political films
Actors Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Ian Holm, Patricia Neal, David Bradley
Rating70%
The film follows Paul Baumer, who during World War I enlists in the Imperial German Army with many of his high school friends, after being indoctrinated by their teacher (Donald Pleasence) as to the glory and superiority of German culture. After surviving training camp under the brutal Corporal Himmelstoss (Ian Holm), the young men board a troop train bound for the front lines. Ominously, at the same moment, they notice another train arriving in town loaded with wounded returning soldiers, who are carried off on stretchers. Once at the front lines, they are placed under the supervision of Stanislaus "Kat" Katzinsky, (Ernest Borgnine). Kat teaches them how to best take cover, how to find extra food, and other survival skills.
Home to Stay (1978)
, 1h17Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin Canada
Genres Drama
Actors Henry Fonda, Frances Hyland, Kristen Vigard, Trudy Young, Dave Thomas
Rating62%
Fonda portrays "an old man who runs away from home with his young granddaughter rather than be placed in an old folks home.
Kidnapped (1971)
, 1h47Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Action, Adventure, Historical
Themes Children's films
Actors Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Vivien Heilbron, Donald Pleasence, Gordon Jackson
Rating61%
Young David Balfour arrives at a bleak Scottish house, the House of Shaws, to claim his inheritance after his father. The house and land have been under the custodianship of his father's brother, Ebeneezer Balfour, but on reaching adulthood, the land and property become David's. Ebeneezer is having none of it, however, so he first tries to murder him, then has him kidnapped by sea captain Hoseason, with whom he has, "a venture for trade in the West Indies". David is shipped off to be sold as a slave in the Carolinas'. Fortunately for the lad, he strikes up a friendship with Alan Breck, escaping from Prince Charles Edward Stuart's defeat at Culloden. Breck is in a cobble which is run down in the fog by Hoseason's ship and once aboard, asks Hoseason to take him to France. When Hoseason refuses, Breck offers him 60 guineas to put him down on Loch Linnhe.
Jane Eyre (1970)
, 1h50Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children
Actors George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Rachel Kempson, Nyree Dawn Porter, Jack Hawkins
Rating63%
Jane Eyre is an orphan, sent to the cruel school institution of Lowood. On leaving, she takes a position as governess to a girl named Adele at Thornfield Hall. Fully aware of her low rank and plain countenance, she makes the best of her situation. But Thornfield holds many secrets and despite mysterious occurrences that Jane cannot comprehend, she and Edward Rochester, owner of Thornfield and Adele's guardian, fall in love. Suddenly, when Jane is about to win the happiness she deserves, a dark secret comes to light which needs all her courage, love and maturity.
David Copperfield (1969)
, 1h58Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Robin Phillips, Richard Attenborough, Ralph Richardson, Ron Moody, Cyril Cusack, Laurence Olivier
Rating58%
Charles Dickens' Immortal Story of a Young Man's Journey to Maturity. This version finds David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach. In flashback, David remembers his life in 19th century England, as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school. He relives his struggle to overcome the loss of his idyllic childhood and the torment inflicted by his hated step-father after his mother’s death. Then virtually abandoned on the streets of Victorian London, David Copperfield is flung into manhood and contends bravely with the perils of big-city corruption and vice; hardships which ultimately fuel his triumph as a talented and successful writer.
The Pink Jungle (1968)
, 1h44Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors James Garner, George Kennedy, Nigel Green, Michael Ansara, George Rose, Vincent Beck
Rating58%
A fashion photographer, Ben Morris, goes to a remote South America location to take pictures of model Alison Duquesne for a lipstick ad. An adventurer they encounter, Sammy Ryderbeit, steals their helicopter and leaves them stranded in the village.
Heidi (1968)
, 1h45Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Animation
Themes Films about children, Children's films
Actors Maximilian Schell, Jennifer Edwards, Jean Simmons, Michael Redgrave, Walter Slezak, Peter van Eyck
Rating64%
Fitzwilly (1967)
, 1h42Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Christmas films, Heist films
Actors Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans, John McGiver, Harry Townes, John Fiedler
Rating65%
Mister Buddwing (1966)
, 1h40Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury, Katharine Ross, Jack Gilford
Rating60%
Waking up on a New York park bench, a man's mind is a total blank. He has no identification on him, just a slip of paper in his pocket with a phone number on it.