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
2025
- John Candy: I Like Me as Self - Director (archive footage)
2020
- Citizen Jane Fonda
- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die as Self (archive footage)
2018
- Amazing Grace as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
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.
- Leatherheads ... (Executive Producer)
- Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence as Self
- Recount ... (Executive Producer)
- A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' as Self
2007
- Michael Clayton as Marty Bach
- Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' as Self
- The Visions of Stanley Kubrick as Self
- Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 as Self
- View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' as Self
- Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick as Self
- James Taylor | One Man Band ... (Executive Producer)
- Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 as Self
2006
- Breaking and Entering ... (Producer)
- Catch a Fire ... (Executive Producer)
- Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light as Self
- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters as Self
- Avenue Montaigne as Brian Sobinski
- Filmmakers in Action as Self
- Sketches of Frank Gehry as Self
2005
- The Interpreter as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons as Self
- The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz as Narrator (voice)
- Forty Shades of Blue ... (Executive Producer)
- One Six Right as Self
- The Last Mogul as Self
2004
- Entourage as Sydney Pollack
- In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema as Self
- A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' as Self
- Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz as Self
- Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand as Self
- Something About Sydney Pollack as Self
2003
- Cold Mountain ... (Producer)
- A Decade Under the Influence as Self
- Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin as Narrator
- More About the Condor as Self
- In the Name of Love ... (Executive Producer)
2002
- Changing Lanes as Stephen Delano
- The Quiet American ... (Executive Producer)
- Heaven ... (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
- The Majestic as Studio Executive (voice)
- Birthday Girl ... (Executive Producer)
- Iris ... (Executive Producer)
- Blow Dry ... (Executive Producer)
- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures as Self
- Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul as Self
- The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" as Self
- AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand as self
2000
- Up at the Villa ... (Executive Producer)
- Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' as Self
- A Song of Africa as Self
- Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma as Self
1999
- The Sopranos as Warren Feldman
- Eyes Wide Shut as Victor Ziegler
- The Talented Mr. Ripley ... (Executive Producer)
- The Directors as Self
- Random Hearts as Carl Broman
- The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' 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 ... (Director)
- Red Wind ... (Executive Producer)
1994
- American Cinema as Self
- Inside the Actors Studio as Self
1993
- Frasier as Holden Thorpe (voice)
- Fallen Angels ... (Executive Producer)
- The Firm ... (Director)
- Searching for Bobby Fischer ... (Executive Producer)
- Flesh and Bone ... (Executive Producer)
- Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O as Self
1992
- Mad About You as Dr. Sydney Warren
- Death Becomes Her as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
- The Player as Dick Mellen
- Husbands and Wives as Jack
- Leaving Normal ... (Executive Producer)
- A Private Matter ... (Executive Producer)
1991
- Pebble Mill as Self
- Dead Again ... (Executive Producer)
- King Ralph ... (Executive Producer)
- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star as Self
1990
- Presumed Innocent ... (Producer)
- White Palace ... (Executive Producer)
- Havana ... (Director)
- Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret as Self
- Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies as Self
- Sanford Meisner Master Class ... (Director)
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
- The Making of 'Tootsie' as Self
- Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
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
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? ... (Director)
- Castle Keep ... (Director)
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- The Swimmer ... (Co-Director)
- 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)
- Frontier Circus ... (Director)
- The Young Savages ... (Dialect Coach)
1960
- The Tall Man ... (Director)
1959
- The Twilight Zone as Arthur Willis
- Startime as Harry
- 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