Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack is an
Academy Award-winning
American film director, producer and actor. His career started in the 1960s, directing episodes of TV series such as
The Fugitive and
Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a half-hour anthology [i] television [i] series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock [i] ...
.
Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse in
New York City before embarking on his acting career. He then moved behind the camera to direct and produce. He won the Academy Award for Directing for
Out of Africa is an autobiographical book by Isak Dinesen, first published in 1937....
. Pollack had previously been nominated for Best Director Oscars for
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and
Tootsie is a 1982 [i] comedy [i] film [i], which tells the story of a talented, but volatile actor [i] ...
.
Encyclopedia
Sydney Pollack is an
Academy Award-winning
American film director, producer and actor. His career started in the 1960s, directing episodes of TV series such as
The Fugitive and
Alfred Hitchcock Presents was a half-hour anthology [i] television [i] series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock [i] ...
.
Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at The Neighborhood Playhouse in
New York City before embarking on his acting career. He then moved behind the camera to direct and produce. He won the Academy Award for Directing for
Out of Africa is an autobiographical book by Isak Dinesen, first published in 1937....
. Pollack had previously been nominated for Best Director Oscars for
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? and
Tootsie is a 1982 [i] comedy [i] film [i], which tells the story of a talented, but volatile actor [i] ...
.
While directing
Tootsie, his rows with
Dustin Hoffman became well known. Eventually Hoffman began pushing the idea that Pollack play the role of his agent and Pollack reluctantly agreed. Their off-screen relationship added authenticity to their scenes in the movie, most of which feature them arguing. Pollack has since taken on more acting roles in addition to producing and directing.
As a character actor, Pollack has subsequently appeared in films such as
A Civil Action and
Eyes Wide Shut is a feature-length motion picture directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick [i], b ...
, as well as his own including
The Interpreter. He also appeared in
Woody Allen's
Husbands and Wives as a New York intellectual undergoing a mid-life crisis.
He had a recurring guest star role on the NBC
sitcom Will & Grace was a popular Emmy Award [i]-winning American [i] television situation comedy [i]...
, playing
Will Truman's unfaithful but loving father, George Truman.
Sydney Pollack will be receiving the first annual Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking award from the Austin Film Festival Oct 21st, 2006
Selected filmography
- Breaking and Entering producer
- The Interpreter director, executive producer, and actor
- Cold Mountain producer
- The Quiet American is a novel written by British [i] author Graham Greene [i]. ...
executive producer - Changing Lanes actor
- Iris executive producer
- The Talented Mr. Ripley is a novel [i] by Patricia Highsmith [i], published [i] in 1955 [i] ...
executive producer - Eyes Wide Shut is a feature-length motion picture directed and co-written by Stanley Kubrick [i], b ...
actor - Random Hearts is a 1984 [i] novel [i] by American [i] ...
director - Sliding Doors producer
- Sabrina director/producer
- Sense and Sensibility is a novel [i] by Jane Austen [i] that was first published in 1811 [i]. ...
executive producer - The Firm director/producer
- Husbands and Wives actor
- Havana director/co-producer
- The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 [i] film about two brothers who perform a duo piano s ...
executive producer - Out of Africa is an autobiographical book by Isak Dinesen, first published in 1937....
director/producer - Tootsie is a 1982 [i] comedy [i] film [i], which tells the story of a talented, but volatile actor [i] ...
director/producer/actor - Absence of Malice is a 1981 [i] film which tells the story of the son of a dead Mafia [i] boss who d ...
director/producer - The Electric Horseman is a romance film starring Robert Redford [i] and Jane Fonda [i]. ...
director/actor - Bobby Deerfield director/producer
- The Yakuza is a film written by Paul Schrader [i] and Robert Towne [i] and directed by Sydney Pollack [i] ...
director/producer - Three Days of the Condor is a United States [i] motion picture [i] made in 1975 [i]. ...
director - The Way We Were director
- Jeremiah Johnson director
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? director/screenwriter/producer
- Castle Keep director
- The Swimmer co-director
- The Scalphunters director
- This Property Is Condemned director
- The Slender Thread director
- War Hunt actor -- film debut
External link
