Sydney Pollack

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. For his film Out of Africa (1985), Pollack won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982). Some of his other best-known works include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Absence of Malice (1981). His subsequent films included Havana (1990), The Firm (1993), The Interpreter (2005), and he produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007). Pollack also made appearances in Robert Altman's Hollywood mystery The Player (1992), Woody Allen's relationship drama Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's erotic psychological drama Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sydney Pollack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Directing

Born: Lafayette, Indiana, USA, 1934-07-01

Died: 2008-05-26

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	For Whom the Bell Tolls	Andres	0
2	1962	War Hunt	Sgt. Owen Van Horn	65
3	1973	The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor	Self - Narrator (voice)	60
4	1973	The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks	Narrator (voice)	68
5	1979	The Electric Horseman	Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)	61
6	1982	Tootsie	George Fields	72
7	1986	Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album	Himself	100
8	1986	Barbra Streisand: One Voice	Self - Audience Member (uncredited)	76
9	1988	Hello Actors Studio	Self	60
10	1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre	Himself	0
11	1990	Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret	Self	0
12	1990	Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies	Self	0
13	1991	Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star	Self	70
14	1992	The Player	Dick Mellen	72
15	1992	Death Becomes Her	Hospital Doctor (uncredited)	68
16	1992	Husbands and Wives	Jack	70
17	1993	Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O	Self	0
18	1996	Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach	Self	70
19	1996	Love in Hollywood	Self	0
20	1998	Independent's Day	Self	50
21	1998	A Civil Action	Al Eustis	65
22	1999	The Way We Were: Looking Back	Self	94
23	1999	Eyes Wide Shut	Victor Ziegler	75
24	1999	The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'	Self	77
25	1999	Random Hearts	Carl Broman	55
26	2000	Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma	Self	0
27	2000	A Song of Africa	Self	80
28	2000	Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'	Self	54
29	2001	Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul	Self	60
30	2001	Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures	Self	74
31	2001	The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"	Self	60
32	2001	The Majestic	Studio Executive (voice)	68
33	2002	Changing Lanes	Stephen Delano	63
34	2002	AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories	Self	65
35	2002	The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller	Narrator (voice)	58
36	2003	More About the Condor		0
37	2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self	80
38	2003	Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin	Narrator	69
39	2004	Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand	Self	81
40	2004	A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'	Self	0
41	2004	Something About Sydney Pollack	Self	0
42	2004	Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz	Self	0
43	2005	The Interpreter	Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)	63
44	2005	The Last Mogul	Self	53
45	2005	Filmmakers vs. Tycoons	Self	62
46	2005	The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz	Narrator (voice)	70
47	2005	One Six Right	Himself	81
48	2006	Avenue Montaigne	Brian Sobinski	62
49	2006	Sketches of Frank Gehry	Self	69
50	2006	Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters	Self	65
51	2006	Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light	Self	71
52	2006	Filmmakers in Action	Self	68
53	2007	Michael Clayton	Marty Bach	68
54	2007	Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'	Self	60
55	2007	View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'	Self	74
56	2007	The Visions of Stanley Kubrick	Self	69
57	2007	Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001	Self	60
58	2007	Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick	Self	69
59	2007	Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001	Self	61
60	2008	A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'	Self	60
61	2008	Made of Honor	Thomas Sr.	65
62	2009	Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood	Self	0
63	2012	Char·ac·ter	Self	40
64	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
65	2014	The Story of The Swimmer	Self (archive footage)	0
66	2014	Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)	67
67	2018	Amazing Grace	Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)	72
68	2020	Babenco: Tell Me When I Die	Self (archive footage)	70

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Winner/Nominee	72
3	1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Bernie Samuelson	77
4	1956	Playhouse 90	Andres	76
5	1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Joe Culp	74
6	1959	The Twilight Zone	Arthur Willis	84
7	1961	The New Breed	Austin Rogers	70
8	1961	The New Breed	Bert Masters	70
9	1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest	67
10	1971	Great Performances	Self	53
11	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
12	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
13	1991	Pebble Mill	Self	31
14	1992	Mad About You	Dr. Sydney Warren	67
15	1993	Frasier	Holden Thorpe (voice)	77
16	1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self	75
17	1997	King of the Hill	Grant Trimble (voice)	74
18	1997	Just Shoot Me!	Sydney Pollack	66
19	1998	Will & Grace	George Truman	69
20	1999	The Directors	Self	58
21	1999	The Sopranos	Warren Feldman	87
22	2004	Entourage	Sydney Pollack	74
23	2008	Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence	Self	75

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