Sydney Pollack
Directing
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.
TV Shows(23)
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
Self
2008
Entourage
Sydney Pollack
2004
The Sopranos
Warren Feldman
1999
The Directors
Self
1999
Will & Grace
George Truman
1998
Just Shoot Me!
Sydney Pollack
1997
King of the Hill
Grant Trimble (voice)
1997
Inside the Actors Studio
Self
1994
American Cinema
Self
1994
Frasier
Holden Thorpe (voice)
1993
Mad About You
Dr. Sydney Warren
1992
Pebble Mill
Self
1991
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self
1975
Le Grand Échiquier
Self
1972
Great Performances
Self
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
The New Breed
Austin Rogers
1961
Startime
Harry
1959
The Twilight Zone
Arthur Willis
1959
Have Gun, Will Travel
Joe Culp
1957
Playhouse 90
Andres
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Bernie Samuelson
1955
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944
Movies(76)
John Candy: I Like Me
Self - Director (archive footage)
2025
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
Self (archive footage)
2020
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
Amazing Grace
Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
The Story of The Swimmer
Self (archive footage)
2014
Char·ac·ter
Self
2012
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Self
2009
Adapting Austen
Self
2009
A Very Quiet Man
Self
2009
Made of Honor
Thomas Sr.
2008
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
2008
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
Self
2007
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
Self
2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
Self
2007
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
Self
2007
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
Self
2007
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
Self
2007
Michael Clayton
Marty Bach
2007
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
2006
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
Narrator (voice)
2005
One Six Right
Self
2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
Self
2005
The Last Mogul
Self
2005
The Interpreter
Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
2005
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
Self
2004
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
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
2004
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
Narrator
2003
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
2003
More About the Condor
Self
2003
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
2002
The Majestic
Studio Executive (voice)
2001
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Self
2001
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
self
2001
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
Self
2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Self
2001
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
Self
2000
A Song of Africa
Self
2000
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
Self
2000
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
1999
A Civil Action
Al Eustis
1998
Independent's Day
Self
1998
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
Self
1997
Love in Hollywood
Self
1996
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
Self
1996
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
Self
1993
Husbands and Wives
Jack
1992
Death Becomes Her
Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
1992
The Player
Dick Mellen
1992
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
Self
1991
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
Self
1990
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Self
1990
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
Self (voice)
1989
Hello Actors Studio
Self
1988
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1986
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
Self
1986
Tootsie
George Fields
1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
The Electric Horseman
Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
1979
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
Self - Narrator (voice)
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
Narrator (voice)
1973
War Hunt
Sgt. Owen Van Horn
1962
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Andres
1959
Now Is Tomorrow
Capt. Stein