Delbert Mann, American director and producer (born 1920)

Delbert Mann

American television and film director (1920–2007)

Delbert Martin Mann Jr. 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 which he had also directed. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. In 2002, he…