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Personal Info

Known Credits 69

Gender Male

Birthdate 1934-07-01 (91 Y.O)

Place Of Birth Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Also Known For Sidney Pollack

Sydney Pollack

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 Hav ...

Known For

Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

Amazing Grace

Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

The Story of The Swimmer

And the Oscar Goes To...

Acting

2020 -- Babenco: Tell Me When I Die | Self (archive footage)

2018 -- Amazing Grace | Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)

2014 -- Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2014 -- The Story of The Swimmer | Self (archive footage)

2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)

2012 -- Char·ac·ter | Self

2009 -- Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood | Self

2008 -- Made of Honor | Thomas Sr.

2008 -- A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' | Self

2007 -- Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 | Self

2007 -- Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick | Self

2007 -- Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 | Self

2007 -- The Visions of Stanley Kubrick | Self

2007 -- View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' | Self

2007 -- Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' | Self

2007 -- Michael Clayton | Marty Bach

2006 -- Filmmakers in Action | Self

2006 -- Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light | Self

2006 -- Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self

2006 -- Sketches of Frank Gehry | Self

2006 -- Avenue Montaigne | Brian Sobinski

2005 -- One Six Right | Himself

2005 -- The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz | Narrator (voice)

2005 -- Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self

2005 -- The Last Mogul | Self

2005 -- The Interpreter | Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)

2004 -- Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz | Self

2004 -- Something About Sydney Pollack | Self

2004 -- A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' | Self

2004 -- Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand | Self

2003 -- Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Narrator

2003 -- A Decade Under the Influence | Self

2003 -- More About the Condor |

2002 -- The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Narrator (voice)

2002 -- AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories | Self

2002 -- Changing Lanes | Stephen Delano

2001 -- The Majestic | Studio Executive (voice)

2001 -- The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" | Self

2001 -- Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Self

2001 -- Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul | Self

2000 -- Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' | Self

2000 -- A Song of Africa | Self

2000 -- Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma | Self

1999 -- Random Hearts | Carl Broman

1999 -- The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' | Self

1999 -- Eyes Wide Shut | Victor Ziegler

1999 -- The Way We Were: Looking Back | Self

1998 -- A Civil Action | Al Eustis

1998 -- Independent's Day | Self

1996 -- Love in Hollywood | Self

1996 -- Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach | Self

1993 -- Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O | Self

1992 -- Husbands and Wives | Jack

1992 -- Death Becomes Her | Hospital Doctor (uncredited)

1992 -- The Player | Dick Mellen

1991 -- Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self

1990 -- Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies | Self

1990 -- Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Self

1989 -- Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Himself

1988 -- Hello Actors Studio | Self

1986 -- Barbra Streisand: One Voice | Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

1986 -- Putting it Together: The Making of the Broadway Album | Himself

1982 -- Tootsie | George Fields

1979 -- The Electric Horseman | Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)

1973 -- The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks | Narrator (voice)

1973 -- The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor | Self - Narrator (voice)

1962 -- War Hunt | Sgt. Owen Van Horn

1959 -- For Whom the Bell Tolls | Andres

1956 -- The Army Game | Pvt. Shuber