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Looking for reviews of films directed by Delbert Mann? Cinafilm has a total of 615 reviews across 21 movies directed by Delbert Mann.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 64%.
Marty is Delbert Mann's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 290 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Delbert Mann is Breaking Up, with a score of 52% based on 26 reviews.
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 with the U.S. Army Air Corps in WW II, then got discharged after service in the European theater. He then 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.
Delbert Mann has directed films starring Nelson Olmsted, Angela Lansbury, Richard Deacon and Ken Lynch.
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