Gilbert Cates
Born: 1934-06-06 in New York City, New York, USA
Died: 2011-10-31
Known For: Directing
Biography
Gilbert “Gil” Cates (born June 6, 1934) is an American film director and television producer. He is probably best known for producing the annual Academy Award shows. In September 2007, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that he would be producing the 80th Academy Awards, his 14th time. The awards took place on Sunday February 24, 2008. Cates directed a number of feature films including I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973), Oh, God! Book II (1980) and The Last Married Couple in America (1980). Cates was born Gilbert Katz in New York City, the son of Nina (née Peltzman) and Nathan Katz, who was a dress manufacturer. There he attended DeWitt Clinton High School. He is the uncle of noted actress Phoebe Cates and a brother of the producer and director Joseph Cates, with whom he collaborated from time to time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilbert Cates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2004
- Kulturplatz as Self
2002
- A Death in the Family ... (Director)
1999
- $pent as Mr. Walsh
1998
- Inside the Golden Statue as Self
1996
- Innocent Victims ... (Director)
1994
- Confessions: Two Faces of Evil ... (Director)
1992
- In My Daughter's Name ... (Executive Producer)
1991
- Absolute Strangers ... (Executive Producer)
1990
- Call Me Anna ... (Director)
1989
- Do You Know the Muffin Man? ... (Director)
1988
- Fatal Judgement ... (Director)
- Backfire ... (Director)
- My First Love ... (Director)
1986
- Child's Cry ... (Director)
1985
- The Twilight Zone ... (Director)
- Consenting Adult ... (Director)
1984
- Burning Rage ... (Director)
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears ... (Director)
1983
- Rapunzel ... (Director)
- Hobson's Choice ... (Director)
1982
- Faerie Tale Theatre ... (Director)
- Country Gold ... (Director)
- The Kid From Nowhere ... (Producer)
1980
- Oh, God! Book II ... (Director)
- The Last Married Couple in America ... (Director)
1979
- The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree ... (Executive Producer)
- Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol ... (Executive Producer)
- The Promise ... (Director)
1978
- Stubby Pringle's Christmas ... (Executive Producer)
1977
- Have I Got a Christmas for You ... (Executive Producer)
- Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye ... (Director)
1976
- Dragonfly ... (Director)
1974
- After the Fall ... (Director)
1973
- The Affair ... (Director)
- Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams ... (Director)
1972
- To All My Friends on Shore ... (Director)
1970
- I Never Sang for My Father ... (Director)
1967
- Rings Around the World ... (Director)
1953
- The Oscars ... (Producer)