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Sydney Pollack

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
103

Gender
Male

Birthday
July 1, 1934 (92 years old)

Place of Birth
Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Sydney 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).

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Known For

Directing

2018Amazing Grace...Director
2006Sketches of Frank Gehry...Director
2005The Interpreter...Director
1999Random Hearts...Director
1995Sabrina...Director
1993The Firm...Director
1990Havana...Director
1990Sanford Meisner Master Class...Director
1990Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret...Other
1985Out of Africa...Director
1982Tootsie...Director
1981Absence of Malice...Director
1979The Electric Horseman...Director
1977Bobby Deerfield...Director
1975Three Days of the Condor...Director
1974The Yakuza...Director
1973The Way We Were...Director
1972Jeremiah Johnson...Director
1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They?...Director
1969Castle Keep...Director
1968The Swimmer...Co-Director
1968The Scalphunters...Director
1966This Property Is Condemned...Director
1965The Slender Thread...Director
1964Slattery's People...Director
1963Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre...Director
1963The Fugitive...Director
1963Breaking Point...Director
1963Arrest and Trial...Director
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour...Director
1961Frontier Circus...Director
1961Ben Casey...Director
1961Target: The Corruptors!...Director
1961Cain's Hundred...Director
1961The Defenders...Director
1960The Tall Man...Director

Crew

2012Silver Linings Playbook...Thanks
1988A Tiger's Tale...Thanks
1986Nine 1/2 Weeks...Other
1961The Young Savages...Dialect Coach
1959The Turn of the Screw...Dialogue Coach

Production

2011Margaret...Producer
2008The Reader...Producer
2008Recount...Executive Producer
2008Leatherheads...Executive Producer
2007James Taylor | One Man Band...Executive Producer
2007Michael Clayton...Producer
2006Breaking and Entering...Producer
2006Catch a Fire...Executive Producer
2006Sketches of Frank Gehry...Executive Producer
2005Forty Shades of Blue...Executive Producer
2005The Interpreter...Executive Producer
2003Cold Mountain...Producer
2003In the Name of Love...Executive Producer
2002The Quiet American...Executive Producer
2002Heaven...Executive Producer
2001Iris...Executive Producer
2001Birthday Girl...Executive Producer
2001Blow Dry...Executive Producer
2000Up at the Villa...Executive Producer
1999The Talented Mr. Ripley...Executive Producer
1999Random Hearts...Producer
1998Poodle Springs...Executive Producer
1998Sliding Doors...Producer
1995Sabrina...Producer
1995Sense and Sensibility...Executive Producer
1995Red Wind...Executive Producer
1993Flesh and Bone...Executive Producer
1993Searching for Bobby Fischer...Executive Producer
1993Fallen Angels...Executive Producer
1993The Firm...Producer
1992A Private Matter...Executive Producer
1992Leaving Normal...Executive Producer
1991Dead Again...Executive Producer
1991King Ralph...Executive Producer
1990Havana...Producer
1990White Palace...Executive Producer
1990Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret...Executive Producer
1990Presumed Innocent...Producer
1989The Fabulous Baker Boys...Executive Producer
1988Bright Lights, Big City...Producer
1985Out of Africa...Producer
1984Songwriter...Producer
1982Tootsie...Producer
1981Absence of Malice...Producer
1980Honeysuckle Rose...Executive Producer
1977Bobby Deerfield...Producer
1975Three Days of the Condor...Producer
1974The Yakuza...Producer

Camera

2006Sketches of Frank Gehry...Director of Photography

Writing

1959Startime...Dialogue

Acting

2025John Candy: I Like Meas Self - Director (archive footage)
2020Babenco: Tell Me When I Dieas Self (archive footage)
2020Citizen Jane Fondaas
2018Amazing Graceas Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Wellesas Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014The Story of The Swimmeras Self (archive footage)
2012Char·ac·teras Self
2009Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Woodas Self
2009Adapting Austenas Self
2009A Very Quiet Manas Self
2008Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influenceas Self
2008Made of Honoras Thomas Sr.
2008A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'as Self
2007Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'as Self
2007Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001as Self
2007Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrickas Self
2007View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'as Self
2007Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001as Self
2007The Visions of Stanley Kubrickas Self
2007Michael Claytonas Marty Bach
2006Filmmakers in Actionas Self
2006Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Lightas Self
2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbustersas Self
2006Sketches of Frank Gehryas Self
2006Avenue Montaigneas Brian Sobinski
2005The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Ozas Narrator (voice)
2005One Six Rightas Self
2005Filmmakers vs. Tycoonsas Self
2005The Last Mogulas Self
2005The Interpreteras Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
2004Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelzas Self
2004In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinemaas Self
2004Entourageas Sydney Pollack
2004Something About Sydney Pollackas Self
2004A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'as Self
2004Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grandas Self
2003Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplinas Narrator
2003A Decade Under the Influenceas Self
2003More About the Condoras Self
2002The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fulleras Narrator (voice)
2002AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Storiesas Self
2002Changing Lanesas Stephen Delano
2001Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hotas Self
2001The Majesticas Studio Executive (voice)
2001The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"as Self
2001AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisandas self
2001Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogulas Self
2001Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Picturesas Self
2000Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'as Self
2000A Song of Africaas Self
2000Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Traumaas Self
1999Random Heartsas Carl Broman
1999The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'as Self
1999Eyes Wide Shutas Victor Ziegler
1999The Sopranosas Warren Feldman
1999The Way We Were: Looking Backas Self
1999The Directorsas Self
1998A Civil Actionas Al Eustis
1998Will & Graceas George Truman
1998Independent's Dayas Self
1997The Saga of Jeremiah Johnsonas Self
1997Just Shoot Me!as Sydney Pollack
1997King of the Hillas Grant Trimble (voice)
1996Love in Hollywoodas Self
1996Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reachas Self
1994Inside the Actors Studioas Self
1994American Cinemaas Self
1993Frasieras Holden Thorpe (voice)
1993Willie Nelson: The Big Six-Oas Self
1992Mad About Youas Dr. Sydney Warren
1992Husbands and Wivesas Jack
1992Death Becomes Heras Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
1992The Playeras Dick Mellen
1991Pebble Millas Self
1991Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Staras Self
1990Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Moviesas Self
1990Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secretas Self
1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatreas Self (voice)
1988Hello Actors Studioas Self
1986Barbra Streisand: One Voiceas Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1986Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Albumas Self
1982Tootsieas George Fields
1982Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Ladyas
1982The Making of 'Tootsie'as Self
1979The Electric Horsemanas Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
1975Les Rendez-vous du dimancheas Self
1973The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidoras Self - Narrator (voice)
1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawksas Narrator (voice)
1972Le Grand Échiquieras Self
1971Great Performancesas Self
1968The Dick Cavett Showas Self - Guest
1962War Huntas Sgt. Owen Van Horn
1961The New Breedas Austin Rogers
1961The New Breedas Bert Masters
1959Startimeas Harry
1959The Twilight Zoneas Arthur Willis
1959For Whom the Bell Tollsas Andres
1957Have Gun, Will Travelas Joe Culp
1956Playhouse 90as Andres
1955Alfred Hitchcock Presentsas Bernie Samuelson
1944Golden Globe Awardsas Self - Nominee
1944Golden Globe Awardsas Self - Nominee / Nominee
Now Is Tomorrowas Capt. Stein