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Delbert Mann (1920 - 2007) was an American television and film director. Working in TV since 1947, Mann directed over 100 live shows, the best known of which was Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty" (1953). Read the full biography

Delbert Mann (1920 - 2007) was an American television and film director. Working in TV since 1947, Mann directed over 100 live shows, the best known of which was Paddy Chayefsky's "Marty" (1953). The following year he directed a big-screen version, with Ernest Borgnine as the lonely Bronx butcher looking for love. The film's success (it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes) paved the way for a series of low-budget films on "small" subjects that flourished in the mid-1950s. From 1967 to 1971 he was president of the Directors Guild of America. Among his other films should be mentioned The Bachelor's Night (1957) and In the Middle of the Night (1959), also written by Chayefsky, The Night at the Top of the Stairs (1960) and The Scotsman (1971). For television, where he returned to work in 1967, he made David Copperfield (1970), starring Laurence Olivier, and a successful adaptation of Heidi (1968) for NBC.