Biography
Anthony Mann (June 30, 1906 – April 29, 1967) was an American actor and film director. Born Emil Anton Bundsmann in the Point Loma area of San Diego, Mann was the son of Jewish-Austrian immigrants Emile Theodore Bundsmann, and his wife Bertha Waxelbaum (original Jewish surname: Weichselbaum) of Macon, Georgia. Mann started out as an actor, appearing in plays off-Broadway in New York City. In 1938, he moved to Hollywood, where he joined the Selznick International Pictures. Mann became an assis...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Todos los nombres de Sara
2019
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-2013) conquered Mexico, Hollywood, and the hearts of...

The Heroes of Telemark: Location report from Norway
2003
as Self / Narrator
Over one hour of black-and-white location footage and interviews with the stars and director, all staged outdoors in manifestly frigid conditions. Man...

A Dandy in Aspic
1968
Director, Producer
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is ...

The Movies: 'Action Speaks Louder Than Words'
1967
as Self
An interview with American director, Anthony Mann. This documentary was first seen as episode 8 of the BBC TV series "The Movies." (A 17-minute excerp...

The Heroes of Telemark
1965
Director
Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy w...

The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964
Director
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius h...

El Cid
1961
Director
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeed...

Cimarron
1960
Director
The epic story of a family involved in the Oklahoma Land Rush of April 22, 1889.

God's Little Acre
1958
Director
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to...

Man of the West
1958
Director
Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley...

The Tin Star
1957
Director
An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

Men in War
1957
Director, Producer
In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Serg...

Serenade
1956
Director
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in ...

The Last Frontier
1955
Director
Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

The Man from Laramie
1955
Director
Will Lockhart arrives in Coronado, an isolated town in New Mexico, in search of someone who sells rifles to the Apache tribe, finding himself unwillin...

Strategic Air Command
1955
Director
Air Force reservist Lt. Col. Robert "Dutch" Holland is recalled into active duty at the peak of his professional baseball career.

The Far Country
1954
Director
During the Klondike Gold Rush, a misanthropic cattle driver and his talkative elderly partner run afoul of the law in Alaska and are forced to work fo...

The Glenn Miller Story
1954
Director
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1...

Thunder Bay
1953
Director
Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.

The Naked Spur
1953
Director
A bounty hunter trying to bring a murderer to justice is forced to accept the help of two less-than-trustworthy strangers.

Bend of the River
1952
Director
Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory...

Quo Vadis
1951
Second Assistant Director
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadershi...

The Tall Target
1951
Director
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Devil's Doorway
1950
Director
A Native American Civil War hero returns home to fight for his people.

The Furies
1950
Director
A New Mexico cattle man and his strong-willed daughter clash over land and love.

Winchester '73
1950
Director
Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one...

Side Street
1950
Director
A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a...

Border Incident
1949
Director
The story concerns two agents, one Mexican (PJF) and one American, who are tasked to stop the smuggling of Mexican migrant workers across the border t...

Reign of Terror
1949
Director
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who,...

Follow Me Quietly
1949
Story
When it rains in the city, a serial killer known as "The Judge" looks for his next strangling victim. For months, the madman has been stalking at nigh...

Raw Deal
1948
Director
Joe Sullivan is itching to get out of prison. He's taken the rap for his accomplice Rick, a sadistic mobster who owes him $50,000 from the job they pu...

T-Men
1947
Director
Two U.S. Treasury ("T-men") agents go undercover in Detroit, and then Los Angeles, in an attempt to break a U.S. currency counterfeiting ring.

Railroaded!
1947
Director
A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innoc...

Desperate
1947
Story, Director
An innocent trucker takes it on the lam when he's accused of robbery.

The Bamboo Blonde
1946
Director
A pilot of a B 29 meets Louise Anderson, a singer in a New York nightclub. He falls in love with her, but he had to leave next day for action in the P...

Strange Impersonation
1946
Director
A female research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic has a very bad week. Her scheming assistant intentionally scars her face, her a...

Sing Your Way Home
1945
Director
A war journalist escorts a spirited teen band back to NYC post-WWII, turning the journey into a musical comedy filled with memorable performances.

Two O'Clock Courage
1945
Director
A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.

The Great Flamarion
1945
Director
A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.

Strangers in the Night
1944
Director
In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. It’s the pretext for an off-beat treatmen...

My Best Gal
1944
Director
A girl from a show-business family seeks a backer for her boyfriend's musical.

Nobody's Darling
1943
Director
Ugly duckling Janie Farnsworth is a student at Pennington High School, and has a crush on Charles Grant, Jr., who is the writer and producer of the up...

Moonlight in Havana
1942
Director
A talented baseball player discovers he can only sing beautifully when he has a cold, leading a nightclub manager to hilariously attempt to keep him s...

Dr. Broadway
1942
Director
A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

Sullivan's Travels
1941
Assistant Director
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise a...

A Criminal at Large
1939
Director, Adaptation
At Marks Priory, Lady Lebanon is eager for her son, Lord William Lebanon, to marry Isla Crane, his cousin. But Isla is reluctant to do so, and is also...

The Streets of New York
1939
Director, Adaptation
The story revolves around the efforts of the middle-class family Fairweather, newly impoverished by the financial panic, to survive against the villai...