Sydney Pollack
Biography
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. During his forty-year career, he received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards, in addition to nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. Pollack won the Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for Out of Africa (1985). He was also nominate…
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Filmography
Acting (96)
Movies (74)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025as Self - Director (archive footage)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020as Self (archive footage)
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
The Story of The Swimmer
2014as Self (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Char·ac·ter
2012as Self
A Very Quiet Man
2009as Self
Adapting Austen
2009as Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009as Self
Made of Honor
2008as Thomas Sr.
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
2008as Self
Michael Clayton
2007as Marty Bach
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
2007as Self
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
2007as Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
2007as Self
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
2007as Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
2007as Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
2007as Self
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006as Self
Avenue Montaigne
2006as Brian Sobinski
Filmmakers in Action
2006as Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
2006as Self
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
2006as Self
The Interpreter
2005as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005as Self
The Last Mogul
2005as Self
One Six Right
2005as Self
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
2005as Narrator (voice)
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
2004as Self
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
2004as Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
2004as Self
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004as Self
Something About Sydney Pollack
2004as Self
More About the Condor
2003as Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
2003as Narrator
A Decade Under the Influence
2003as Self
Changing Lanes
2002as Stephen Delano
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
2002as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002as Narrator (voice)
The Majestic
2001as Studio Executive (voice)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001as Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
2001as Self
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
2001as Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
2001as self
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
2000as Self
A Song of Africa
2000as Self
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
2000as Self
Eyes Wide Shut
1999as Victor Ziegler
Random Hearts
1999as Carl Broman
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
1999as Self
The Way We Were: Looking Back
1999as Self
A Civil Action
1998as Al Eustis
Independent's Day
1998as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
1997as Self
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
1996as Self
Love in Hollywood
1996as Self
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
1993as Self
Death Becomes Her
1992as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
The Player
1992as Dick Mellen
Husbands and Wives
1992as Jack
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
1991as Self
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990as Self
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
1990as Self
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
1989as Self (voice)
Hello Actors Studio
1988as Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
1986as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
1986as Self
Tootsie
1982as George Fields
The Electric Horseman
1979as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
1973as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
1973as Narrator (voice)
War Hunt
1962as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959as Andres
Now Is Tomorrow
as Capt. Stein
Television (22)
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008as Self
Entourage
2004as Sydney Pollack
The Sopranos
1999as Warren Feldman
The Directors
1999as Self
Will & Grace
1998as George Truman
King of the Hill
1997as Grant Trimble (voice)
Just Shoot Me!
1997as Sydney Pollack
American Cinema
1994as Self
Inside the Actors Studio
1994as Self
Frasier
1993as Holden Thorpe (voice)
Mad About You
1992as Dr. Sydney Warren
Pebble Mill
1991as Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975as Self
Le Grand Échiquier
1972as Self
Great Performances
1971as Self
The Dick Cavett Show
1968as Self - Guest
The New Breed
1961as Austin Rogers
The Twilight Zone
1959as Arthur Willis
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957as Joe Culp
Playhouse 90
1956as Andres
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955as Bernie Samuelson
Golden Globe Awards
1944as Self - Nominee / Nominee
Crew (88)
Movies (75)
Silver Linings Playbook
2012Thanks
Margaret
2011Producer
The Reader
2008Producer
Leatherheads
2008Executive Producer
Recount
2008Executive Producer
Michael Clayton
2007Producer
James Taylor | One Man Band
2007Executive Producer
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006Director
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006Director of Photography
Sketches of Frank Gehry
2006Executive Producer
Breaking and Entering
2006Producer
Catch a Fire
2006Executive Producer
The Interpreter
2005Director
The Interpreter
2005Executive Producer
Forty Shades of Blue
2005Executive Producer
Cold Mountain
2003Producer
In the Name of Love
2003Executive Producer
Heaven
2002Executive Producer
The Quiet American
2002Executive Producer
Birthday Girl
2001Executive Producer
Iris
2001Executive Producer
Blow Dry
2001Executive Producer
Up at the Villa
2000Executive Producer
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999Executive Producer
Random Hearts
1999Director
Random Hearts
1999Producer
Sliding Doors
1998Producer
Poodle Springs
1998Executive Producer
Sense and Sensibility
1995Executive Producer
Sabrina
1995Director
Sabrina
1995Producer
Red Wind
1995Executive Producer
The Firm
1993Director
The Firm
1993Producer
Searching for Bobby Fischer
1993Executive Producer
Flesh and Bone
1993Executive Producer
Leaving Normal
1992Executive Producer
A Private Matter
1992Executive Producer
Dead Again
1991Executive Producer
King Ralph
1991Executive Producer
White Palace
1990Executive Producer
Presumed Innocent
1990Producer
Havana
1990Director
Havana
1990Producer
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990Executive Producer
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990Other
Sanford Meisner Master Class
1990Director
The Fabulous Baker Boys
1989Executive Producer
A Tiger's Tale
1988Thanks
Bright Lights, Big City
1988Producer
Nine 1/2 Weeks
1986Other
Out of Africa
1985Director
Out of Africa
1985Producer
Songwriter
1984Producer
Tootsie
1982Director
Tootsie
1982Producer
Absence of Malice
1981Director
Absence of Malice
1981Producer
Honeysuckle Rose
1980Executive Producer
The Electric Horseman
1979Director
Bobby Deerfield
1977Director
Bobby Deerfield
1977Producer
Three Days of the Condor
1975Director
Three Days of the Condor
1975Producer
The Yakuza
1974Director
The Yakuza
1974Producer
The Way We Were
1973Director
Jeremiah Johnson
1972Director
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
1969Director
Castle Keep
1969Director
The Scalphunters
1968Director
This Property Is Condemned
1966Director
The Slender Thread
1965Director
The Young Savages
1961Dialect Coach
The Turn of the Screw
1959Dialogue Coach
Television (13)
Fallen Angels
1993Executive Producer
Slattery's People
1964Director
The Fugitive
1963Director
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963Director
Arrest and Trial
1963Director
Breaking Point
1963Director
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962Director
The Defenders
1961Director
Ben Casey
1961Director
Target: The Corruptors!
1961Director
Cain's Hundred
1961Director
Frontier Circus
1961Director
The Tall Man
1960Director
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