Cast
Sydney Pollack
Directing
Cast
Sydney Pollack
Known for
Directing
Born
1934-07-01
From
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Died
2008-05-26
Also known as Sidney Pollack, Sydney Irwin Pollack
Biography
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 â 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.
Eyes Wide Shut
as Victor Ziegler
Death Becomes Her
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
The Player
as Dick Mellen
The Majestic
as Studio Executive (voice)
The Interpreter
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
Tootsie
as George Fields
Michael Clayton
as Marty Bach
Made of Honor
as Thomas Sr.
Changing Lanes
as Stephen Delano
Random Hearts
as Carl Broman
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Director (archive footage)
A Civil Action
as Al Eustis
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
War Hunt
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
Amazing Grace
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Narrator
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
Husbands and Wives
as Jack
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Narrator (voice)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Narrator (voice)
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as Self
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
as Self
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
as Self
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Self
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
as Narrator (voice)
The Electric Horseman
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
as self
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
Avenue Montaigne
as Brian Sobinski
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
as Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
MĂ€nner im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
as Self
Filmmakers in Action
as Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
as Self
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
as Self
Love in Hollywood
as Self
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
as Self
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Andres
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as Self
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
as Self
Citizen Jane Fonda
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
as Self
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
Independent's Day
as Self
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
Char·ac·ter
as Self
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
as Self
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
as Self
A Song of Africa
as Self
The Last Mogul
as Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as Self
Sketches of Frank Gehry
as Self
The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
as Self
Now Is Tomorrow
as Capt. Stein
The Story of The Swimmer
as Self (archive footage)
Something About Sydney Pollack
as Self
A Very Quiet Man
as Self
One Six Right
as Self
The Way We Were: Looking Back
as Self
Adapting Austen
as Self
More About the Condor
as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
as Self