Delbert Mann

AKA:
Delbert Martin Mann
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
01/30/1920
Birthplace:
Lawrence, Kansas
Death Date:
11/11/2007
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Working in TV from 1947, Mann directed over 100 live plays, the best known of which was Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty" (1953). The following year he directed a big-screen version, starring Ernest Borgnine as the lonely Bronx butcher in search of love. The success of the film--it took the Palme d'Or at Cannes--paved the way for a number of low-budget films on "small" subjects that flourished in the mid-1950s.

Mann's other successes include the finely acted "The Bachelor Party" (1956), also scripted by Chayefsky, and "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs" (1960). He made some deft comedies in the 1960s Continued

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Raised in Nashville, Tennessee
 
Became involved with the Nashville Community Players; became friends with Fred Coe
1941 
Worked for General Shoe Corporation
 
Served as B-24 bomber pilot with Eighth Air Corps; then as Squadron Intelligence Officer
 
After graduating Yale with an MFA, worked as a director at the Town Theatre of Columbia in South Carolina
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