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Sydney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

Director · Born 1934-07-01 · Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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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…

Directed

  1. The Firm (1993) — Director
  2. Tootsie (1982) — Director
  3. The Interpreter (2005) — Director
  4. Out of Africa (1985) — Director
  5. Three Days of the Condor (1975) — Director
  6. Sabrina (1995) — Director
  7. Jeremiah Johnson (1972) — Director
  8. The Way We Were (1973) — Director
  9. Random Hearts (1999) — Director
  10. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) — Director
  11. Absence of Malice (1981) — Director
  12. The Yakuza (1974) — Director
  13. The Electric Horseman (1979) — Director
  14. Havana (1990) — Director
  15. The Scalphunters (1968) — Director
  16. Amazing Grace (2018) — Director
  17. Bobby Deerfield (1977) — Director
  18. This Property Is Condemned (1966) — Director
  19. The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) — Director
  20. Castle Keep (1969) — Director
  21. The Fugitive (1963) — Director
  22. The Slender Thread (1965) — Director
  23. Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006) — Director
  24. Ben Casey (1961) — Director
  25. The Defenders (1961) — Director
  26. Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) — Director
  27. The Tall Man (1960) — Director
  28. Breaking Point (1963) — Director
  29. Cain's Hundred (1961) — Director
  30. Arrest and Trial (1963) — Director
  31. Frontier Circus (1961) — Director
  32. Target: The Corruptors! (1961) — Director
  33. Slattery's People (1964) — Director
  34. Sanford Meisner Master Class (1990) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Eyes Wide Shut (1999) — Victor Ziegler
  2. The Sopranos (1999) — Warren Feldman
  3. Death Becomes Her (1992) — Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
  4. Michael Clayton (2007) — Marty Bach
  5. Tootsie (1982) — George Fields
  6. Made of Honor (2008) — Thomas Sr.
  7. The Interpreter (2005) — Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
  8. Changing Lanes (2002) — Stephen Delano
  9. The Twilight Zone (1959) — Arthur Willis
  10. The Player (1992) — Dick Mellen
  11. Frasier (1993) — Holden Thorpe (voice)
  12. The Majestic (2001) — Studio Executive (voice)
  13. King of the Hill (1997) — Grant Trimble (voice)
  14. Entourage (2004) — Sydney Pollack
  15. Will & Grace (1998) — George Truman
  16. A Civil Action (1998) — Al Eustis
  17. Husbands and Wives (1992) — Jack
  18. Random Hearts (1999) — Carl Broman
  19. Mad About You (1992) — Dr. Sydney Warren
  20. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) — Bernie Samuelson
  21. Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001) — Self
  22. Just Shoot Me! (1997) — Sydney Pollack
  23. The Electric Horseman (1979) — Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
  24. Avenue Montaigne (2006) — Brian Sobinski
  25. John Candy: I Like Me (2025) — Self - Director (archive footage)
  26. Amazing Grace (2018) — Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
  27. Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003) — Narrator
  28. Inside the Actors Studio (1994) — Self
  29. A Decade Under the Influence (2003) — Self
  30. Have Gun, Will Travel (1957) — Joe Culp
  31. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014) — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
  32. War Hunt (1962) — Sgt. Owen Van Horn
  33. Great Performances (1971) — Self
  34. Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006) — Self
  35. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
  36. Golden Globe Awards (1944) — Self - Nominee
  37. Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020) — Self (archive footage)
  38. Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007) — Self
  39. Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006) — Self
  40. The Last Mogul (2005) — Self