Sydney Pollack
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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.
Known for
Credits
Filmmakers in Action (2006)
as Self
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
as Victor Ziegler
Death Becomes Her (1992)
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
John Candy: I Like Me (2025)
as Self - Director (archive footage)
Made of Honor (2008)
as Thomas Sr.
Tootsie (1982)
as George Fields
The Player (1992)
as Dick Mellen
Changing Lanes (2002)
as Stephen Delano
Michael Clayton (2007)
as Marty Bach
The Interpreter (2005)
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
The Majestic (2001)
as Studio Executive (voice)
Random Hearts (1999)
as Carl Broman
The Electric Horseman (1979)
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
A Civil Action (1998)
as Al Eustis
Avenue Montaigne (2006)
as Brian Sobinski
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
as Self
Adapting Austen (2009)
as Self
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
as Self
Husbands and Wives (1992)
as Jack
Citizen Jane Fonda (2020)
Actor
Barbra Streisand: One Voice (1986)
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
as Self
Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)
as Self
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
Actor
Hello Actors Studio (1988)
as Self
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
as Self
The Making of 'Tootsie' (1982)
as Self
More About the Condor (2003)
as Self
War Hunt (1962)
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
Love in Hollywood (1996)
as Self
Char·ac·ter (2012)
as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson (1997)
as Self
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (2000)
as Self
Amazing Grace (2018)
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
as Self
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
as Narrator
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand (2004)
as Self
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album (1986)
as Self
Independent's Day (1998)
as Self
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1990)
as Self
The Story of The Swimmer (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
A Very Quiet Man (2009)
as Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
as Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand (2001)
as self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002)
as Narrator (voice)
One Six Right (2005)
as Self
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies (1990)
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973)
as Narrator (voice)
The Last Mogul (2005)
as Self
A Song of Africa (2000)
as Self
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O (1993)
as Self
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
as Andres
Now Is Tomorrow (—)
as Capt. Stein
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996)
as Self
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)
as Self (voice)
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007)
as Self
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999)
as Self
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' (2008)
as Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul (2001)
as Self
Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (2001)
as Self
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
as Self
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002)
as Self
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' (2007)
as Self
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" (2001)
as Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' (2007)
as Self
Something About Sydney Pollack (2004)
as Self
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
as Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007)
as Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009)
as Self
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema (2004)
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Way We Were: Looking Back (1999)
as Self
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma (2000)
as Self
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' (2004)
as Self
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004)
as Self