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 – 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.
★7.2
MOVIE2006
Filmmakers in Action
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1999
Eyes Wide Shut
as Victor Ziegler
★7.9
MOVIE2025
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Director (archive footage)
★6.8
MOVIE1992
Death Becomes Her
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE1992
The Player
as Dick Mellen
★6.5
MOVIE2008
Made of Honor
as Thomas Sr.
★7.2
MOVIE1982
Tootsie
as George Fields
★6.8
MOVIE2007
Michael Clayton
as Marty Bach
★6.3
MOVIE2005
The Interpreter
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
★6.3
MOVIE2002
Changing Lanes
as Stephen Delano
★5.6
MOVIE1999
Random Hearts
as Carl Broman
★6.5
MOVIE1998
A Civil Action
as Al Eustis
★6.8
MOVIE2001
The Majestic
as Studio Executive (voice)
★9.0
MOVIE2001
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
as self
★7.0
MOVIE1992
Husbands and Wives
as Jack
★7.8
MOVIE2020
Citizen Jane Fonda
★8.5
MOVIE2000
A Song of Africa
as Self
★6.7
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as Self
★7.6
MOVIE1986
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
★6.1
MOVIE2006
Avenue Montaigne
as Brian Sobinski
★6.1
MOVIE1979
The Electric Horseman
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
★7.2
MOVIE2018
Amazing Grace
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
★7.1
MOVIE2006
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as Self
MOVIE2009
Adapting Austen
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1998
Independent's Day
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2003
More About the Condor
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
★5.8
MOVIE2002
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as Narrator (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2000
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as Self
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
★6.4
MOVIE1962
War Hunt
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
★6.0
MOVIE1982
The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
★5.5
MOVIE2005
The Last Mogul
as Self
MOVIE1990
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as Self
★6.8
MOVIE2005
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as Self
★4.0
MOVIE2012
Char·ac·ter
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE1986
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1996
Love in Hollywood
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
★7.4
MOVIE2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
★7.9
MOVIE2003
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
★6.2
MOVIE2007
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
as Self
★7.5
MOVIETBA
Now Is Tomorrow
as Capt. Stein
★8.0
MOVIE2004
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as Self
★7.0
MOVIE2001
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot
as Self
★7.5
MOVIE1991
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
MOVIE2009
A Very Quiet Man
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2014
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
★8.0
MOVIE2005
One Six Right
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2003
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Narrator
★6.8
MOVIE1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2009
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as Self
★7.7
MOVIE2002
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
MOVIE2014
The Story of The Swimmer
as Self (archive footage)
★8.1
MOVIE2004
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
★6.1
MOVIE2007
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2001
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1993
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Self
★7.1
MOVIE2020
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
★6.9
MOVIE2006
Sketches of Frank Gehry
as Self
★6.3
MOVIE2001
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1997
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2007
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
MOVIE1990
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
★7.4
MOVIE2007
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
as Self
MOVIE1959
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Andres
★6.5
MOVIE1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
★5.3
MOVIE2005
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
as Narrator (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2008
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
★7.7
MOVIE1999
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
as Self
★7.7
MOVIE1996
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE2004
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
as Self
★9.2
MOVIE1999
The Way We Were: Looking Back
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE2007
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE2004
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
as Self
MOVIE2004
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE2000
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
as Self