Delbert Mann Filmography

The Hollywood Collection: Jack Lemmon - America's Everyman

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Chris Lemmon, Billy Wilder, Garson Kanin, Delbert Mann

Synopsis: Jack Lemmon has mastered both stage and screen in his career with such hits as "The Odd Couple," "The Days of Wine and Roses," "The China Syndrome," "Save the Tiger" (for which he received an Oscar) and "Grumpy Old Men." He and Walter Matthau starred in numerous films together that were nearly Read More

Lily in Winter

Crew: Director

Actors: Natalie Cole

Synopsis: This family-oriented holiday drama takes place in Alabama in 1957 and centers upon the heartwarming relationship between a lonely white boy and his black nanny. When she returns South to be with her family for Christmas, her young charge follows her, creating all kinds of complications. Singer Natalie Cole Read More

Incident in a Small Town

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Walter Matthau, Stephanie Zimbalist, Harry Morgan

Synopsis: Walter Matthau, Stephanie Zimbalist, and Harry Morgan star in this made-for-television drama, in which a judge in a small town discovers that the skeletons in his family closet are aired for all to see after he's named as a prime suspect in the murder of his son-in-law. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More

Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Walter Matthau, Susan Blakely, Harry Morgan, Brian Kerwin, Bruce Kirkpatrick

Synopsis: In a sequel to the superior movie entitled The Incident, a small-town lawyer goes against the State of Maryland, suing on behalf of an institutionalized mental patient for release. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Ironclads

Crew: Director

Actors: Virginia Madsen, Alex Hyde-White, Reed Edward Diamond, Fritz Weaver, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This made-for-cable Civil War tale chronicles the famous naval battle between the Confederate Army's Merrimac and the Union's Monitor. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

April Morning

Crew: Director

Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich, Chad Lowe, Susan Blakely, Meredith Salenger

Synopsis: The morning invoked by the title of this made-for-TV drama is April 19, 1775. On that day, the "shot heard 'round the world" was fired, signalling the start of the American Revolution. Departing from known history, novelist Howard Fast (who wrote the book on which this film is based) proposes that Read More

The Ted Kennedy Jr. Story

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This factual drama chronicles the battle of Senator Edward Kennedy's oldest son after he is diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer that costs him his leg. Though only 12, the young boy does not let the tragedy get him down. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Last Days of Patton

Crew: Director

Actors: George C. Scott, Eva Marie Saint, Ed Lauter, Richard Dysart, Murray Hamilton

Synopsis: In this 1986 made-for-television sequel to the 1971 film that won George C. Scott his only Academy Award, the acclaimed actor once again portrays General George S. Patton. While the original film dealt exclusively with the legendary military man's life during World War II, this follow-up picks up Read More

A Death in California

Crew: Director

Actors: Granville van Dusen, Cheryl Ladd, Sam Elliott, Alexis Smith

Synopsis: Adapted from a book by Joan Barthel, A Death in California is a harrowing two-part TV movie based on fact. Cheryl Ladd plays Hope Masters, a wealthy Beverly Hills woman who is forced to watch in mute horror as a criminal sociopath (Sam Elliot) murders her boyfriend (Granville Van Dusen). She is Read More

Love Leads the Way

Crew: Director

Actors: Timothy Bottoms

Synopsis: This made-for-Disney drama is the fact-based account of Morris Frank (Timothy Bottoms), who, during the 1930s, trained America's first seeing-eye dog. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

The Member of the Wedding

Crew: Director

Synopsis: First adapted to film in 1952, Carson McCullers' play A Member of the Wedding was restaged for television in a live performance aired December 20, 1982. Dana Hill assumes the role created by Julie Harris back in 1950: Frankie Addams, an awkward 12-year-old girl who feels like a fifth wheel during Read More

The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story

Crew: Director

Actors: Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: Bearing a marked resemblance to It's a Wonderful Life, The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story stars Lee Remick as a woman plagued by profound emotional and business problems. It's getting close to Christmas, but Remick is hardly in the mood to celebrate, feeling that her life has lost its purpose. Read More

Bronte

Crew: Director

Actors: Julie Harris

Synopsis: Julie Harris portrays the poignant short life of the great English writer Charlotte Brontë in this filmed version of Harris's tour-de-force, one-woman act. Filmed on location in Ireland (substituting for Brontë's Yorkshire home), the landscape brings forth the author's stunning natural Read More

All the Way Home

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Tad Mosel's Broadway play All the Way Home was based on James Agee's A Death in the Family. A film version of the Mosel piece, starring Robert Preston and Jean Simmons, was released in 1963. 18 years later, All the Way Home was given an all-star staging by the NBC television network. Set in 1915 Read More

Night Crossing

Crew: Director

Actors: John Hurt, Jane Alexander, Glynnis O'Connor, Doug McKeon, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Two friends chart a daring path to freedom in this drama from Walt Disney Pictures. Peter Strelzyk (John Hurt) and Guenter Wetzel (Beau Bridges) are two men living in East Germany who can no longer tolerate the petty tyrannies of Communist rule. Together, they formulate a daring plan to escape to Read More

To Find My Son

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Richard Thomas plays a sensitive college student in the made-for-TV To Find My Son. While tutoring a speech-impaired orphan named Tommy (Justin Dana), Thomas becomes determined to adopt the boy. The Child Welfare people, however, have different ideas: after all, Thomas is hardly in a financial Read More

Torn Between Two Lovers

Crew: Director

Actors: Andrea Martin, Lee Remick

Synopsis: Lee Remick is Torn Between Two Lovers in this made-for-TV romantic drama. Happily married to Joseph Bologna, Remick becomes involved with handsome architect George Peppard after a chance meeting in Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Halfway down the cast list is Second City TV regular Andrea Martin Read More

All Quiet on the Western Front

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Thomas

Synopsis: Years after directing the classic Marty (1955), Delbert Mann became a creator of prestige TV movie projects, none more daunting than his adaptation of All Quiet on the Western Front (1979). Richard Thomas stars as Paul Baumer, a teen who, at the urging of zealously patriotic teacher Kantorek (Donald Pleasence Read More

Home to Stay

Crew: Director

Actors: Henry Fonda

Synopsis: Set in Illinois (and filmed in Canada), Home to Stay stars Henry Fonda as an aging farmer who resists the notion of moving into a nursing home. Fonda's son Michael McGuire would like to honor his father's wishes, but realizes that the old man is becoming increasingly unable to care for himself. Read More

Love's Dark Ride

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Love's Dark Ride, based on a true story, was produced for TV by Jack Webb's Mark VII company. Cliff Potts stars as a commercial artist who is blinded by a gun accident. After a long spell of self-pity, Potts learns to enjoy life again when he falls in love with nightclub entertainer Jane Seymour. Carrie Snodgress Read More

Breaking Up

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Written by Loring Mandel, Breaking Up stars Gena Rowlands as a middle-aged housewife who, after 16 years of marriage, is asked for a divorce by husband Granville van Dusen. Once overcoming the shock and the bitterness, Rowlands must determine the future course for herself and her two children. Her Read More

Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery was the first in an intended series of TV-movies inspired by the Ten Commandments (the series came a premature end with 1981's Thou Shalt Not Kill). Louise Fletcher plays the wife of paralytic Robert Reed. Though she tries to remain loyal, Reed's incapacitation puts Read More

Tell Me My Name

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Valerie Mahaffey plays a 19-year-old girl who nervously knocks at the door of middle-aged housewife Barbara Barrie. Barrie had given Valerie up for adoption at birth, and the girl wants to know why. By her mere presence, Mahffey threatens to tear apart Barrie's family, most of whom have no Read More

Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy is a TV dramatization of the notorious Cold War incident of 1960. The story is told from the point of view of Powers (Lee Majors), an American pilot who was shot down over Russia while taking photographs on behalf of the CIA. The event occurs just Read More

The Birch Interval

Crew: Director

Actors: Eddie Albert, Rip Torn, Ann Wedgeworth, Susan McClung, Brian Part

Synopsis: In Birch Interval Eddie Albert and Rip Torn, play Pa Strawacher and Thomas, a pair of Amish patriarchs. Susan McClung plays Jesse, an 11-year-old city girl who undergoes severe culture shock when she moves in with her Amish cousins. Told from McClung's point of view, the film concentrates on such Read More

A Girl Named Sooner

Crew: Director

Actors: Lee Remick, Richard Crenna, Cloris Leachman, Don Murray, Anne Francis

Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Girl Named Sooner stars newcomer Susan Deer in the title role. Sooner is an illiterate 8-year-old, growing up in a backwater Indiana community. Lee Remick co-stars as Elizabeth McHenry, Sooner's new foster parent, who hopes to properly educate the girl--and in so doing, give Read More

The Man without a Country

Crew: Director

Actors: Cliff Robertson, Beau Bridges

Synopsis: Though previously filmed several times in one- and two-reel form, Edward Everett Hale's classic 1863 novel The Man Without a Country was not given a full-length treatment until this ABC "Kodak Special" TV presentation. Cliff Robertson stars as young, zealously patriotic American military officer Read More

No Place to Run

Crew: Director

Actors: Herschel Bernardi, Scott Jacoby

Synopsis: The made-for-television No Place to Run stars Herschel Bernardi as a seriously ill 73-year-old grandparent. Despite his many ailments, Bernardi is roused into action when he is denied custody of his orphaned grandson (Scott Jacoby). Grandpa and grandson decide to skip town together, with the Read More

Kidnapped

Crew: Director

Actors: Claire Nielson, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Lawrence Douglas

Synopsis: Kidnapped avoids the Hollywoodized interpolations of previous film versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, choosing instead to adhere to the story as written. Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer (Donald Pleasance), who arranges for David Read More

She Waits

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Patty Duke, David McCallum, Lew Ayres, Beulah Bondi, Dorothy McGuire

Synopsis: She Waits, directed by Delbert Mann, an above average, frightening made-for-TV horror film tells the very familiar story of a young couple who move into a old house only to find out that they are being haunted by the ghost of the man's ex-wife, who gradually takes possession of the young wife. Read More

Jane Eyre

Crew: Director

Actors: George C. Scott, Susannah York, Ian Bannen, Jack Hawkins, Nyree Dawn Porter

Synopsis: Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece Theater style television adaptation. Susannah York is Jane Eyre, the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester (George C. Scott Read More

David Copperfield

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Susan Hampshire

Synopsis: This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield (Robin Phillips) as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are Read More

The Pink Jungle

Crew: Director

Actors: James Garner, Eva Renzi, George Kennedy, Nigel Green, Michael Ansara

Synopsis: This combination romantic comedy and political satire finds fashion photographer Ben Morris (James Garner) traveling to Latin American for an assignment with the beautiful model Alison (Eva Renzi). Their arrival in a small village draws suspicions from Colonel Ceyala (Fabrizio Mioni). The Colonel Read More

Heidi

Crew: Director

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Jean Simmons

Synopsis: Made-for-television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's tale about an orphaned girl who goes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

Fitzwilly

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Barbara Feldon, Edith Evans, John McGiver, Harry Townes

Synopsis: When an aging philanthropist falls on hard times, her butler starts to rob the rich so that she can keep on giving to the poor in this comedy. Claude Fitzwilliam (Dick Van Dyke), known to his friends as "Fitzwilly," works as a butler for Victoria Woodworth (Edith Evans), who -- ever since the Read More

Mister Buddwing

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Katharine Ross, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: James Garner plays a man who awakens in Central Park with no memories at all. This drama chronicles his search for his identity. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dear Heart

Crew: Director

Actors: Glenn Ford, Geraldine Page, Michael Anderson, Jr., Barbara Nichols, Patricia Barry

Synopsis: In this romantic comedy, a middle-aged postmistress from a small town goes to a post office convention in New York and promptly falls in love with a man who is engaged to another. His fiancee is a widow with a teenage son. The man really wants a family, but he also really wants the Read More

Quick, Before It Melts

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: George Maharis, Robert Morse, Anjanette Comer, James Gregory, Howard St. John

Synopsis: In this comedy, an introverted journalist for a prominent magazine is assigned to do a story on "Little America" in Antarctica. Once there he gets in all sorts of trouble with the army, a rival, and the penguin Milton Fox. He also finds himself embroiled in a plot to ship some Kiwi women to the Read More

A Gathering of Eagles

Crew: Director

Actors: Rock Hudson, Rod Taylor, Mary Peach, Barry Sullivan, Kevin McCarthy

Synopsis: A Gathering of Eagles stars Rock Hudson as a colonel in the peacetime Strategic Air Command. His devotion to his duty as a wing commander takes a toll on his men, his marriage, and his own well-being. It is to Hudson's credit that he was willing to put his image on the line with this essentially Read More

That Touch of Mink

Crew: Director

Actors: Cary Grant, Doris Day, Gig Young, Audrey Meadows, John Astin, Dick Sargent

Synopsis: When people refer to Doris Day as "the world's oldest professional virgin," they generally have the 1962 comedy That Touch of Mink in mind. It isn't that Cathy Timberlake (Day) is above a bit of hanky-panky; it's just that she wants such tangibles as a marriage license and wedding ring first. Read More

The Outsider

Crew: Director

Actors: Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Bruce Bennett, Gregory Walcott, Vivian Nathan

Synopsis: This is an uneven melodrama on the tragic life of Pima Indian Ira Hayes, one of the men who raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. The story picks up with Hayes (Tony Curtis) leaving his reservation in Arizona to join the Marines, enter boot camp, and start to adapt to the life of a Marine. Hayes Read More

Lover Come Back

Crew: Director

Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie

Synopsis: Although not as well known as Pillow Talk (1959), this romantic-comedy pairing of stars Rock Hudson and Doris Day earned an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. Hudson stars as Jerry Webster, a Madison Avenue advertising executive who has achieved success not through hard work or intelligence but Read More

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Angela Lansbury, Shirley Knight

Synopsis: Robert Preston plays the flip side of his eternally ebullient Professor Harold Hill in Dark at the Top of the Stairs. Preston portrays an early 20th-century harness salesman, fully aware that his product is rapidly becoming obsolete. He tries to compensate for his own lack of self-esteem by Read More

Middle of the Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Kim Novak, Fredric March, Glenda Farrell, Albert Dekker, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Scripter Paddy Chayevsky altered his successful stageplay for this routine cinematic version of Middle of the Night, emphasizing the self-centered interests of the relatives and friends who surround Jerry Kingsley (Fredric March). Jerry is a widower, a lonely but successful clothing manufacturer Read More

Desire under the Elms

Crew: Director

Actors: Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Burl Ives, Frank Overton, Pernell Roberts

Synopsis: Director Delbert Mann and screenwriter Irwin Shaw adapt Eugene O'Neill's 20th-century version of a Greek tragedy to the screen with a bit more discretion than need be. The story takes place in the New England of the 1840s. Emotionally cool but passionately hot farmer Burl Ives the smoldering Sophia Loren Read More

Separate Tables

Crew: Director

Actors: Rita Hayworth, Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster

Synopsis: Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside hotel. Among the guests are an alleged war hero (David Niven), a timid spinster (Deborah Kerr) and her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper), and a divorced couple (Burt Read More

The Bachelor Party

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Murray, E.G. Marshall, Jack Warden, Philip Abbott, Larry Blyden, Carolyn Jones, Patricia Smith

Synopsis: Like his earlier Marty, Paddy Chayefsky's The Bachelor Party began life as a TV play. The film version centers around the impending wedding of thirtyish Arnold (Philip Abbott). As they gather for the traditional "wild" bachelor party, Arnold's married pals begin reflecting on their own lives. Most Read More

Darkness At Noon

Crew: Director

Actors: Lee J. Cobb, Joseph Wiseman, Oscar Homolka, David Wayne, Keenan Wynn

Producers' Showcase: Yellow Jack

Crew: Director

Actors: Lorne Greene, Dennis O'Keefe, Dane Clark, E.G. Marshall, Carlos Montalban

The Petrified Forest

Crew: Director

Actors: Lauren Bacall, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Paul Hartmann, Natalie Schafer

Marty

Crew: Director

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Esther Minciotti, Augusta Ciolli, Joe Mantell

Synopsis: Paddy Chayefsky's Oscar-winning slice-of-life drama is a heartwarming story about Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine), a lonely Bronx butcher. Marty is a burly but gentle man, easing into middle age without much hope for romance or a career. He lives at home with his mother (Esther Minciotti), a kind Read More

Marty

Crew: Director

Actors: Rod Steiger, Nancy Marchand

Synopsis: Not the 1955 film, but a television version filmed two years earlier, Marty is the story of a lonely New York man (Rod Steiger) who finds solace with an equally introverted woman. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Philco Television Playhouse: "Ernie Barger Is 50"

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this rare kinescope from the early years of the long-running dramatic anthology Philco Television Playhouse, Ed Begley Sr. stars as Ernie Barger, the bombastic, conservative but withal likeable co-owner of a successful dinner-plate manufacturing firm. Having spent his life imposing his will on Read More

The Iron Horse

Actors: George O'Brien, Winston Miller, Peggy Cartwright, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick, James Gordon, Fred Kohler

Synopsis: John Ford directed this epic-scale silent western, which was one of his first major successes and was hugely influential on outdoor films that followed. David Brandon (James Gordon) is a surveyor in the Old West who dreams that one day the entire North American continent will be linked by Read More