Sydney Pollack
Born: 1934-07-01 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Died: 2008-05-26
Known For: Directing
Biography
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. During his forty-year career, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. Pollack won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa (1985). He was also nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982). Pollack's other notable films include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), The Yakuza (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Absence of Malice (1981), The Firm (1993), and Sabrina (1995). Pollack produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007), and he produced numerous films including The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Iris (2001), Cold Mountain (2003) and The Reader (2008). Pollack acted in Robert Altman's The Player (1992), Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sydney Pollack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2020
- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die as Self (archive footage)
2014
- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- The Story of The Swimmer as Self (archive footage)
2012
- Silver Linings Playbook ... (Thanks)
- Char·ac·ter as Self
2011
- Margaret ... (Producer)
2009
- Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood as Self
- A Very Quiet Man as Self
- Adapting Austen as Self
2008
- The Reader ... (Producer)
- Made of Honor as Thomas Sr.
- Recount ... (Executive Producer)
- Leatherheads ... (Executive Producer)
- Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence as Self
- A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' as Self
2007
- Michael Clayton as Marty Bach
- Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 as Self
- Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick as Self
- Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' as Self
- The Visions of Stanley Kubrick as Self
- View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' as Self
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 as Self
- James Taylor | One Man Band ... (Executive Producer)
2006
- Breaking and Entering ... (Producer)
- Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light as Self
- Filmmakers in Action as Self
- Catch a Fire ... (Executive Producer)
- Sketches of Frank Gehry as Self
- Avenue Montaigne as Brian Sobinski
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
2005
- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons as Self
- The Interpreter as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
- The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz as Narrator (voice)
- Forty Shades of Blue ... (Executive Producer)
- The Last Mogul as Self
- One Six Right as Self
2004
- Entourage as Sydney Pollack
- A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' as Self
- Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz as Self
- In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema as Self
- Something About Sydney Pollack as Self
- Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand as Self
2003
- Cold Mountain ... (Producer)
- A Decade Under the Influence as Self
- Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin as Narrator
- In the Name of Love ... (Executive Producer)
- More About the Condor as Self
2002
- Heaven ... (Executive Producer)
- Changing Lanes as Stephen Delano
- The Quiet American ... (Executive Producer)
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller as Narrator (voice)
- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories as Self
2001
- Birthday Girl ... (Executive Producer)
- The Majestic as Studio Executive (voice)
- Iris ... (Executive Producer)
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self
- Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul as Self
- Blow Dry ... (Executive Producer)
- The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" as Self
2000
- Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma as Self
- Up at the Villa ... (Executive Producer)
- A Song of Africa as Self
- Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' as Self
1999
- The Sopranos as Warren Feldman
- Eyes Wide Shut as Victor Ziegler
- Random Hearts as Carl Broman
- The Talented Mr. Ripley ... (Executive Producer)
- The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' as Self
- The Directors as Self
- The Way We Were: Looking Back as Self
1998
- Will & Grace as George Truman
- Sliding Doors ... (Producer)
- A Civil Action as Al Eustis
- Poodle Springs ... (Executive Producer)
- Independent's Day as Self
1997
- King of the Hill as Grant Trimble (voice)
- Just Shoot Me! as Sydney Pollack
- The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson as Self
1996
- Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach as Self
- Love in Hollywood as Self
1995
- Sense and Sensibility ... (Executive Producer)
- Sabrina ... (Producer)
- Red Wind ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
- American Cinema as Self
1993
- Frasier as Holden Thorpe (voice)
- The Firm ... (Director)
- Fallen Angels ... (Executive Producer)
- Searching for Bobby Fischer ... (Executive Producer)
- Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O as Self
- Flesh and Bone ... (Executive Producer)
1992
- Mad About You as Dr. Sydney Warren
- Death Becomes Her as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
- Leaving Normal ... (Executive Producer)
- The Player as Dick Mellen
- A Private Matter ... (Executive Producer)
- Husbands and Wives as Jack
1991
- Pebble Mill as Self
- King Ralph ... (Executive Producer)
- Dead Again ... (Executive Producer)
- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self
1990
- White Palace ... (Executive Producer)
- Havana ... (Director)
- Presumed Innocent ... (Producer)
- Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret as Self
- Sanford Meisner Master Class ... (Director)
- Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies as Self
1989
- The Fabulous Baker Boys ... (Executive Producer)
- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre as Self (voice)
1988
- Bright Lights, Big City ... (Producer)
- Hello Actors Studio as Self
- A Tiger's Tale ... (Thanks)
1986
- Nine 1/2 Weeks ... (Other)
- Barbra Streisand: One Voice as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
- Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album as Self
1985
- Out of Africa ... (Director)
1984
- Songwriter ... (Producer)
1982
- Tootsie as George Fields
1981
- Absence of Malice ... (Director)
1980
- Honeysuckle Rose ... (Executive Producer)
1979
- The Electric Horseman as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
1977
- Bobby Deerfield ... (Director)
1975
- Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- Three Days of the Condor ... (Director)
1974
- The Yakuza ... (Director)
1973
- The Way We Were ... (Director)
- The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks as Narrator (voice)
- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor as Self - Narrator (voice)
1972
- Le Grand Échiquier as Self
- Jeremiah Johnson ... (Director)
1971
- Great Performances as Self
1969
- Castle Keep ... (Director)
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ... (Director)
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Scalphunters ... (Director)
1966
- This Property Is Condemned ... (Director)
1965
- The Slender Thread ... (Director)
1964
- Slattery's People ... (Director)
1963
- The Fugitive ... (Director)
- Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre ... (Director)
- Arrest and Trial ... (Director)
- Breaking Point ... (Director)
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour ... (Director)
- War Hunt as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
1961
- Ben Casey ... (Director)
- The Defenders ... (Director)
- Cain's Hundred ... (Director)
- The New Breed as Austin Rogers
- Target: The Corruptors! ... (Director)
- The Young Savages ... (Dialect Coach)
1960
- The Tall Man ... (Director)
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Arthur Willis
- For Whom the Bell Tolls as Andres
- The Turn of the Screw ... (Dialogue Coach)
1957
- Have Gun, Will Travel as Joe Culp
1956
- Playhouse 90 as Andres
1955
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Bernie Samuelson
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee