Stage, television and film director Daniel Mann was born Daniel Chugerman on August 8, 1912, in Brooklyn, NY. He was a child performer and attended the New York's Professional Children's School. He studied with renowned acting teacher 'Sanford Meisner' . Daniel Mann died of heart failure in Los Angeles on November 21, 1991. He was 79 years old.
Father-in-law of Harold Ramis.
Directed 7 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Shirley Booth , Terry Moore , Anna Magnani , Marisa Pavan , Susan Hayward , Paul Muni and Elizabeth Taylor. Booth, Taylor, Magnani won Oscars for their performances in one of Manns movies.
Is portrayed by David Proval in James Dean
He studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and eventually became his assistant. In the very early days of the Actors Studio (founded in 1947) before Lee Strasberg became its artistic director, Mann was one of its first teachers.
Father of Alex Mann.
Was in negotiations to direct The Rainmaker for Paramount Pictures, but the job was eventually taken by Joseph Anthony.
Father of Michael Thomas Mann.
Father of Erica Mann Ramis.
He directed James Dean, Louis Jourdan and Geraldine Page in the Broadway production of The Immoralist. When Elia Kazan saw James Dean in The Immoralist he cast Dean in East of Eden.
He was one of the first teachers at the Actors Studio in New York along with Elia Kazan, and Stanford Meisner.
