Anthony Mann (born Emil Anton Bundsmann; June 30, 1906 â€" April 29,
1967) was an American film director and stage actor, best remembered
for his work in the film noir and Westerns genres. As a director, he
often collaborated with the cinematographer John Alton. He directed
films for a variety of production companies, from RKO to MGM, and
worked with many major stars of the era. He made several Westerns with
James Stewart, such as Winchester '73 (1950), and he was the director
of the medieval epic El Cid (1961), working with Charlton Heston and
Sophia Loren. He also directed the big-budget film Cimarron (1960),
which starred Glenn Ford and Maria Schell.Mann was born Emil Anton
Bundsmann in San Diego, California. His father, Emile Theodore
Bundsmann, an academic, was born in the village of Rosice, Chrudim,
Bohemia to a Sudeten-German Catholic family. His mother, Bertha
Weichselbaum, a drama teacher, was an American of Bavarian Jewish
descent.Shortly after their marriage, Mann's parents joined the
Theosophical Society community of Lomaland in San Diego County where
there was an emphasis on artistic, religious, and military training
and where children were raised separately from their parents.When Mann
was three, his parents returned to his father's native Austria to seek
treatment for Professor Bundsmann's ill health, leaving Mann behind in
Lomaland. Mann's mother did not return for Mann until he was fourteen,
and only then at the urging of a cousin who had paid him a visit and
was worried about his treatment and situation at Lomaland.
1967) was an American film director and stage actor, best remembered
for his work in the film noir and Westerns genres. As a director, he
often collaborated with the cinematographer John Alton. He directed
films for a variety of production companies, from RKO to MGM, and
worked with many major stars of the era. He made several Westerns with
James Stewart, such as Winchester '73 (1950), and he was the director
of the medieval epic El Cid (1961), working with Charlton Heston and
Sophia Loren. He also directed the big-budget film Cimarron (1960),
which starred Glenn Ford and Maria Schell.Mann was born Emil Anton
Bundsmann in San Diego, California. His father, Emile Theodore
Bundsmann, an academic, was born in the village of Rosice, Chrudim,
Bohemia to a Sudeten-German Catholic family. His mother, Bertha
Weichselbaum, a drama teacher, was an American of Bavarian Jewish
descent.Shortly after their marriage, Mann's parents joined the
Theosophical Society community of Lomaland in San Diego County where
there was an emphasis on artistic, religious, and military training
and where children were raised separately from their parents.When Mann
was three, his parents returned to his father's native Austria to seek
treatment for Professor Bundsmann's ill health, leaving Mann behind in
Lomaland. Mann's mother did not return for Mann until he was fourteen,
and only then at the urging of a cousin who had paid him a visit and
was worried about his treatment and situation at Lomaland.
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