Mark Rydell

Mark Rydell (born March 23, 1935 , in New York City) is an American actor, film director and producer. He has directed many Academy Award-nominated films including The Fox (1967), The Reivers (1969), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979), The River (1984) and For the Boys (1991). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond (1981). Rydell's initial training was in music. As a youth, he wanted to be a conductor. He began his career as an actor and first became known for his role as Walt Johnson on The Edge of Night and as Jeff Baker on As the World Turns, which he played from 1956 to 1962. When he would not sign a long-term contract to remain on ATWT the producers had his character die in a car crash. He won plaudits for his role of violent Jewish mob kingpin Marty Augustine in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973). His most recent significant film role was in Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending (2002). As a director, Rydell's credits include The Reivers (1969), The Cowboys (1972), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best Director, The River (1984), For the Boys (1991), and Intersection (1994). He directed the TV movie The Crime of the Century (1996), which starred Isabella Rossellini and Stephen Rea. In 2006, Rydell directed the movie Even Money. Rydell was also the director of the TV bio-pic James Dean (2001), which earned actor James Franco a Golden Globe award. Rydell also acted in the movie, playing Jack L. Warner (head of Warner Bros). In 2009, Rydell, working with actor Martin Landau and screenwriter/playwright Lyle Kessler, produced an education seminar, The Total Picture Seminar. It is a two-day event covering the disciplines of acting, directing, and writing for film. The three have worked together as a team for many decades at The Actors Studio teaching and coaching professional actors, writers, and directors. In 2010, Rydell joined the Advisory Board of Openfilm, an online video sharing site created to help aspiring independent filmmakers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Rydell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For: Directing

Born: New York City, New York, USA, 1929-03-23

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1956	Crime in the Streets	Lou Macklin	60
2	1972	The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men in 'The Cowboys'		0
3	1973	The Long Goodbye	Marty Augustine	74
4	1973	Cinderella Liberty	Gutteral Mischief (as Marty Augustine)	68
5	1988	Punchline	Romeo	54
6	1990	Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret	Self	0
7	1990	Havana	Meyer Lansky	58
8	1997	Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero	Self	0
9	2000	A Man Is Mostly Water	Distributor	20
10	2001	James Dean	Jack Warner	68
11	2002	Hollywood Ending	Al	65
12	2005	James Dean: Sense Memories	Self	0
13	2009	No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos	Self	59
14	2010	Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen	Self	67
15	2011	Good Men	Marcus	0
16	2012	Char·ac·ter	Self	40
17	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
18	2016	Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond	Self	69
19	2017	Chicanery	Jack Sobel	60
20	2021	Senior Entourage	Mark	20

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Philco Television Playhouse		63
2	1955	Navy Log		45
3	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Tom Adams	69
4	1958	Naked City	Ralph Harris	55
5	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
6	1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	Self	75
7	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75
8	2002	Everwood	Jacob Hoffman	75

Mark Rydell

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