Sydney Pollack
Highest Rated: 100% Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993)
Lowest Rated: 16% Made of Honor (2008)
Birthday: Jul 1, 1934
Birthplace: Lafayette, Indiana, USA
As an Oscar-winning director-producer-actor, Sydney Pollack was remembered as a filmmaker capable of delivering A-list star power in commercially successful, as well as artistically respectable, feature films throughout the 1970s and '80s. A career that began as an actor and acting coach eventually led to directing, thanks to the advice of actor Burt Lancaster. After years of honing his directorial skills on television, Pollack began picking up feature film work in the mid-'60s. The grueling Depression-era drama "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (1969) garnered him his first Academy Award nomination and put Pollack on the map as a director of note. He would direct Robert Redford in a total of seven movies, with efforts like "The Way We Were" (1973) and "Three Days of the Condor" (1975) numbering among the star's most popular. "Tootsie" (1982) elevated the director to an elite level of power and prestige in Hollywood few enjoyed. Pollack went on to win two Oscars as a director and producer for his work on the sweeping romance "Out of Africa" (1985). And while the latter film marked the apex of Pollack's directing career, he continued to turn in deft performances as an actor on such hit series as "Will & Grace" (NBC, 1998-2006) and in acclaimed films like "Michael Clayton" (2007). Consistently in tune with the socio-political themes of the time, Pollack effectively tapped in to the American psyche time and again throughout his decades-long filmmaking career.
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Sydney Pollack
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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75% |
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Margaret | Producer | $46.5K | 2011 |
63% |
|
The Reader | Producer | $34.2M | 2008 |
16% |
|
Made of Honor | Thomas Sr. (Character) | $46.0M | 2008 |
52% |
|
Leatherheads | Executive Producer | $31.2M | 2008 |
90% |
|
Michael Clayton |
Marty Bach (Character), Producer |
$49.0M | 2007 |
74% |
|
Orchestra Seats | Brian Sobinski (Character) | $2.0M | 2006 |
34% |
|
Breaking and Entering | Producer | $929.0K | 2006 |
75% |
|
Catch a Fire | Executive Producer | $4.3M | 2006 |
82% |
|
Sketches of Frank Gehry |
Self, Director, Executive Producer |
$437.5K | 2005 |
61% |
|
Forty Shades of Blue | Executive Producer | $75.2K | 2005 |
58% |
|
The Interpreter | Director | $72.5M | 2005 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Six Right | Self | - | 2005 |
70% |
|
Cold Mountain | Producer | $95.6M | 2003 |
95% |
|
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Narrator | - | 2003 |
87% |
|
The Quiet American | Executive Producer | $13.0M | 2002 |
77% |
|
Changing Lanes | Delano (Character) | $66.8M | 2002 |
59% |
|
Birthday Girl | Executive Producer | $4.9M | 2001 |
79% |
|
Iris | Executive Producer | $5.6M | 2001 |
19% |
|
Blow Dry | Executive Producer | $637.8K | 2001 |
45% |
|
Up at the Villa | Executive Producer | $2.9M | 2000 |
85% |
|
The Talented Mr. Ripley | Executive Producer | $81.3M | 1999 |
18% |
|
Random Hearts |
Carl Broman (Character), Director, Producer |
$31.1M | 1999 |
76% |
|
Eyes Wide Shut | Victor Ziegler (Character) | $55.7M | 1999 |
65% |
|
Sliding Doors | Producer | $11.9M | 1998 |
64% |
|
A Civil Action | Al Eustis (Character) | $56.7M | 1998 |
No Score Yet |
|
Poodle Springs | Executive Producer | - | 1998 |
97% |
|
Sense and Sensibility | Executive Producer | $42.0M | 1995 |
60% |
|
Sabrina |
Director, Producer |
$51.6M | 1995 |
100% |
|
Searching for Bobby Fischer | Executive Producer | $7.9M | 1993 |
76% |
|
The Firm |
Director, Producer |
$157.0M | 1993 |
93% |
|
Husbands and Wives | Jack (Character) | $9.3M | 1992 |
23% |
|
King Ralph | Executive Producer | $31.3M | 1991 |
81% |
|
Dead Again | Executive Producer | $35.5M | 1991 |
27% |
|
Havana |
Director, Producer |
$8.8M | 1990 |
86% |
|
Presumed Innocent | Producer | $85.7M | 1990 |
97% |
|
The Fabulous Baker Boys | Executive Producer | $18.1M | 1989 |
57% |
|
Bright Lights, Big City | Producer | $15.7M | 1988 |
62% |
|
Out of Africa |
Director, Producer |
$83.1M | 1985 |
89% |
|
Songwriter | Producer | - | 1984 |
91% |
|
Tootsie |
George Fields (Character), Director, Producer |
- | 1982 |
81% |
|
Absence of Malice |
Director, Producer |
- | 1981 |
64% |
|
The Electric Horseman | Director | - | 1979 |
29% |
|
Bobby Deerfield |
Director, Producer |
- | 1977 |
87% |
|
Three Days of the Condor | Director | - | 1975 |
60% |
|
The Yakuza |
Director, Producer |
- | 1975 |
64% |
|
The Way We Were | Director | - | 1973 |
91% |
|
Jeremiah Johnson | Director | - | 1972 |
82% |
|
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? |
Director, Producer |
- | 1969 |
40% |
|
Castle Keep | Director | - | 1969 |
70% |
|
The Scalphunters | Director | - | 1968 |
100% |
|
The Swimmer | Director | - | 1968 |
64% |
|
This Property Is Condemned | Director | - | 1966 |
71% |
|
The Slender Thread | Director | - | 1965 |
No Score Yet |
|
War Hunt | Sgt. Owen Van Horn (Character) | - | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Revolt of the Tartars | Director | - | 1960 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency | Producer | 2009 |
65% | 82% | Entourage | Sydney Pollack (Guest Star) | 2007 |
92% | 96% | The Sopranos | Warren Feldman (Guest Star) | 2007 |
No Score Yet | 88% | Will & Grace | George Truman (Guest Star) | 2000-2002 2006 |
No Score Yet | 72% | King of the Hill | Grant Trimble (Guest Voice) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Just Shoot Me | Himself (Guest Star) | 2000 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mad About You | Dr. Sydney Warren (Guest Star) | 1998 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fallen Angels | Executive Producer | 1993 1995 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Inside the Actors Studio | Guest | 1995 |
95% | 94% | Frasier | Holden Thorpe (Guest Voice) | 1994 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fugitive | Director | 1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ben Casey |
Unknown (Guest Star), Director |
1962-1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Director | 1962-1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Director | 1963 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tall Man | Director | 1962 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cain's Hundred | Director | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Deputy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Have Gun -- Will Travel | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1961 |
92% | 96% | The Twilight Zone | Arthur Willis (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | 87% | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Bernie Samuelson (Character) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of Wells Fargo | Stan Riker (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Startime | Unknown (Character) | 1959 |