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Known For
Directing
Birthday
July 1, 1934
Died
May 26, 2008
Place of Birth
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
- Sidney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
5.4 Popularity
Biography
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
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
7.2
Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
Amazing Grace
2018
6.7
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Story of The Swimmer
2014
7.0
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
4.0
Self
Char·ac·ter
2012
0.0
Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
7.5
Self
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008
6.4
Thomas Sr.
Made of Honor
2008
6.0
Self
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008
Credits
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.0
Amazing Grace
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
7.2
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
6.7
The Story of The Swimmer
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2014
7.0
Char·ac·ter
as Self
2012
4.0
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
as Self
2009
0.0
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
as Self
2008
7.5
Made of Honor
as Thomas Sr.
2008
6.4
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
2008
6.0
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as Self
2007
6.0
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
2007
6.9
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
2007
6.9
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
as Self
2007
6.0
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
as Self
2007
7.4
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
as Self
2007
6.0
Michael Clayton
as Marty Bach
2007
6.8
Filmmakers in Action
as Self
2006
6.8
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as Self
2006
7.1
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
2006
6.5
Sketches of Frank Gehry
as Self
2006
6.9
Avenue Montaigne
as Brian Sobinski
2006
6.2
One Six Right
as Himself
2005
8.1
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
as Narrator (voice)
2005
7.0
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
2005
6.2
The Last Mogul
as Self
2005
5.3
The Interpreter
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
2005
6.3
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Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
as Self
2004
0.0
Entourage
as Sydney Pollack
2004
7.3
Something About Sydney Pollack
as Self
2004
0.0
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
as Self
2004
0.0
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
2004
8.1
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Narrator
2003
6.9
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003
8.0
🎬
More About the Condor
2003
0.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Narrator (voice)
2002
5.8
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
2002
6.5
Changing Lanes
as Stephen Delano
2002
6.3
The Majestic
as Studio Executive (voice)
2001
6.8
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
2001
6.0
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
2001
7.4
🎬
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
2001
6.0
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
as Self
2000
5.4
A Song of Africa
as Self
2000
8.0
🎬
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
as Self
2000
0.0
Random Hearts
as Carl Broman
1999
5.5
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
as Self
1999
7.7
Eyes Wide Shut
as Victor Ziegler
1999
7.5
The Sopranos
as Warren Feldman
1999
8.6
The Way We Were: Looking Back
as Self
1999
9.4
The Directors
as Self
1999
5.8
A Civil Action
as Al Eustis
1998
6.5
Will & Grace
as George Truman
1998
6.8
Independent's Day
as Self
1998
5.0
Just Shoot Me!
as Sydney Pollack
1997
6.6
King of the Hill
as Grant Trimble (voice)
1997
7.3
Love in Hollywood
as Self
1996
0.0
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as Self
1996
7.0
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
Frasier
as Holden Thorpe (voice)
1993
7.7
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Self
1993
0.0
Mad About You
as Dr. Sydney Warren
1992
6.7
Husbands and Wives
as Jack
1992
7.0
Death Becomes Her
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
1992
6.8
The Player
as Dick Mellen
1992
7.2
🎬
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991
3.1
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
1991
7.0
🎬
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
as Self
1990
0.0
🎬
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
1990
0.0
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Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Himself
1989
0.0
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
1988
6.0
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1986
7.6
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
as Himself
1986
10.0
Tootsie
as George Fields
1982
7.2
The Electric Horseman
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
1979
6.1
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Narrator (voice)
1973
6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1973
6.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.3
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.7
War Hunt
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
1962
6.5
The New Breed
as Austin Rogers
1961
7.0
The New Breed
as Bert Masters
1961
7.0
The Twilight Zone
as Arthur Willis
1959
8.4
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Andres
1959
0.0
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Joe Culp
1957
7.4
Playhouse 90
as Andres
1956
7.6
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Bernie Samuelson
1955
7.7
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1944
7.0
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner/Nominee
1944
7.0