Sydney Pollack
Directing • Born 1934-07-01 – Died 2008-05-26
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 nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982). Pollack's other notable films include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), The Yakuza (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Absence of Malice (1981), The Firm (1993), and Sabrina (1995). Pollack produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007), and he produced numerous films including The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Iris (2001), Cold Mountain (2003) and The Reader (2008). Pollack acted in Robert Altman's The Player (1992), Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sydney Pollack, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
97 credits
Eyes Wide Shut
Movie • 1999
Victor Ziegler
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Movie • 1959
Andres
Changing Lanes
Movie • 2002
Stephen Delano
Avenue Montaigne
Movie • 2006
Brian Sobinski
The Player
Movie • 1992
Dick Mellen
Made of Honor
Movie • 2008
Thomas Sr.
Michael Clayton
Movie • 2007
Marty Bach
War Hunt
Movie • 1962
Sgt. Owen Van Horn
A Civil Action
Movie • 1998
Al Eustis
Random Hearts
Movie • 1999
Carl Broman
Tootsie
Movie • 1982
George Fields
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
Movie • 2000
Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Movie • 2009
Self
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Movie • 2004
Self
Husbands and Wives
Movie • 1992
Jack
Love in Hollywood
Movie • 1996
Self
One Six Right
Movie • 2005
Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Movie • 2003
Narrator
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Movie • 1973
Self - Narrator (voice)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Movie • 1973
Narrator (voice)
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
Movie • 2000
Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Movie • 2007
Self
Char·ac·ter
Movie • 2012
Self
Hello Actors Studio
Movie • 1988
Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Death Becomes Her
Movie • 1992
Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
The Electric Horseman
Movie • 1979
Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Movie • 1990
Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Movie • 2001
Self
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
Movie • 2004
Self
Sketches of Frank Gehry
Movie • 2006
Self
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Movie • 1986
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Movie • 2007
Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Movie • 2007
Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Movie • 2014
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Something About Sydney Pollack
Movie • 2004
Self
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Movie • 1991
Self
A Decade Under the Influence
Movie • 2003
Self
Independent's Day
Movie • 1998
Self
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Movie • 2008
Self
The Majestic
Movie • 2001
Studio Executive (voice)
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
Movie • 2005
Narrator (voice)
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
Movie • 1999
Self
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Movie • 1986
Self
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Movie • 2001
Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Movie • 2007
Self
Filmmakers in Action
Movie • 2006
Self
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Movie • 2005
Self
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
Movie • 2007
Self
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Movie • 2006
Self
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
Movie • 2004
Self
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Movie • 2001
Self
The Interpreter
Movie • 2005
Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
A Song of Africa
Movie • 2000
Self
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Movie • 1993
Self
The Way We Were: Looking Back
Movie • 1999
Self
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Movie • 1996
Self
The Last Mogul
Movie • 2005
Self
The Story of The Swimmer
Movie • 2014
Self (archive footage)
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Movie • 2007
Self
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
Movie • 2006
Self
More About the Condor
Movie • 2003
Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
Movie • 2002
Self
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Movie • 1989
Self (voice)
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Movie • 1990
Self
Adapting Austen
Movie • 2009
Self
A Very Quiet Man
Movie • 2009
Self
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
Movie • 2004
Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
Movie • 1997
Self
John Candy: I Like Me
Movie • 2025
Self - Director (archive footage)
Citizen Jane Fonda
Movie • 2020
Now Is Tomorrow
Movie
Capt. Stein
Mad About You
TV • 1992
Dr. Sydney Warren
Inside the Actors Studio
TV • 1994
Self
The Sopranos
TV • 1999
Warren Feldman
King of the Hill
TV • 1997
Grant Trimble (voice)
Entourage
TV • 2004
Sydney Pollack
Frasier
TV • 1993
Holden Thorpe (voice)
Will & Grace
TV • 1998
George Truman
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Arthur Willis
Just Shoot Me!
TV • 1997
Sydney Pollack
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
TV • 1955
Bernie Samuelson
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Austin Rogers
The Directors
TV • 1999
Self
Pebble Mill
TV • 1991
Self
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
TV • 2008
Self
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Bert Masters
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Andres
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
The Dick Cavett Show
TV • 1968
Self - Guest
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self
Have Gun, Will Travel
TV • 1957
Joe Culp
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee
Golden Globe Awards
TV • 1944
Self - Nominee / Nominee
American Cinema
TV • 1994
Self