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Gilbert Cates

Director · Born 1934-06-06 · New York City, New York, USA

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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.

Directed

  1. The Twilight Zone (1985) — Director
  2. Oh, God! Book II (1980) — Director
  3. I Never Sang for My Father (1970) — Director
  4. Faerie Tale Theatre (1982) — Director
  5. Backfire (1988) — Director
  6. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973) — Director
  7. The Last Married Couple in America (1980) — Director
  8. Consenting Adult (1985) — Director
  9. Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989) — Director
  10. The Affair (1973) — Director
  11. The Promise (1979) — Director
  12. Call Me Anna (1990) — Director
  13. Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (1994) — Director
  14. Rapunzel (1983) — Director
  15. To All My Friends on Shore (1972) — Director
  16. A Death in the Family (2002) — Director
  17. Dragonfly (1976) — Director
  18. Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1984) — Director
  19. Child's Cry (1986) — Director
  20. Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1977) — Director
  21. Innocent Victims (1996) — Director
  22. Fatal Judgement (1988) — Director
  23. My First Love (1988) — Director
  24. Country Gold (1982) — Director
  25. Burning Rage (1984) — Director
  26. Rings Around the World (1967) — Director
  27. After the Fall (1974) — Director
  28. Hobson's Choice (1983) — Director
  29. Absolute Strangers (1991) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Inside the Golden Statue (1998) — Self
  2. $pent (1999) — Mr. Walsh
  3. Kulturplatz (2004) — Self