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Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
July 1, 1934
Died
May 26, 2008
Place of Birth
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Also Known As
- Sidney Pollack
- Sydney Irwin Pollack
Sydney Pollack
1.0 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.8
Self - Director (archive footage)
John Candy: I Like Me
2025
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
2020
6.5
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
2014
0.0
Self (archive footage)
The Story of The Swimmer
2014
4.0
Self
Char·ac·ter
2012
0.0
Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
🎬
0.0
Self
Adapting Austen
2009
🎬
0.0
Self
A Very Quiet Man
2009
7.5
Self
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
2008
6.4
Thomas Sr.
Made of Honor
2008
Credits
John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Director (archive footage)
2025
7.8
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
2020
7.0
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
6.5
The Story of The Swimmer
as Self (archive footage)
2014
0.0
Char·ac·ter
as Self
2012
4.0
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
as Self
2009
0.0
🎬
Adapting Austen
as Self
2009
0.0
🎬
A Very Quiet Man
as Self
2009
0.0
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
as Self
2008
7.5
Made of Honor
as Thomas Sr.
2008
6.4
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
2008
6.0
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
2007
6.9
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
as Self
2007
6.0
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
as Self
2007
7.4
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as Self
2007
6.0
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
2007
6.9
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
as Self
2007
6.1
Michael Clayton
as Marty Bach
2007
6.8
Filmmakers in Action
as Self
2006
6.8
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as Self
2006
7.1
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
2006
6.5
Sketches of Frank Gehry
as Self
2006
6.9
Avenue Montaigne
as Brian Sobinski
2006
6.1
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
as Narrator (voice)
2005
7.0
One Six Right
as Self
2005
8.1
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
2005
6.2
The Last Mogul
as Self
2005
5.3
The Interpreter
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
2005
6.3
🎬
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
as Self
2004
0.0
🎬
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema
as Self
2004
0.0
Entourage
as Sydney Pollack
2004
7.4
Something About Sydney Pollack
as Self
2004
0.0
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
as Self
2004
0.0
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
2004
8.1
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Narrator
2003
6.9
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003
7.9
🎬
More About the Condor
as Self
2003
0.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Narrator (voice)
2002
5.8
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
2002
6.5
Changing Lanes
as Stephen Delano
2002
6.3
The Majestic
as Studio Executive (voice)
2001
6.7
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
2001
6.0
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
2001
7.4
🎬
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul
as Self
2001
6.0
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
as Self
2000
5.4
A Song of Africa
as Self
2000
8.0
🎬
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma
as Self
2000
0.0
Random Hearts
as Carl Broman
1999
5.6
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
as Self
1999
7.7
Eyes Wide Shut
as Victor Ziegler
1999
7.5
The Sopranos
as Warren Feldman
1999
8.6
The Way We Were: Looking Back
as Self
1999
9.4
The Directors
as Self
1999
5.8
A Civil Action
as Al Eustis
1998
6.5
Will & Grace
as George Truman
1998
6.8
Independent's Day
as Self
1998
5.0
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
as Self
1997
0.0
Just Shoot Me!
as Sydney Pollack
1997
6.6
King of the Hill
as Grant Trimble (voice)
1997
7.4
Love in Hollywood
as Self
1996
0.0
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as Self
1996
7.0
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
7.5
American Cinema
as Self
1994
8.0
Frasier
as Holden Thorpe (voice)
1993
7.7
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Self
1993
0.0
Mad About You
as Dr. Sydney Warren
1992
6.7
Husbands and Wives
as Jack
1992
7.0
Death Becomes Her
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
1992
6.8
The Player
as Dick Mellen
1992
7.2
🎬
Pebble Mill
as Self
1991
3.1
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
1991
7.5
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
as Self
1990
0.0
🎬
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as Self
1990
0.0
🎬
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self (voice)
1989
0.0
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
1988
6.5
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1986
7.6
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
as Self
1986
10.0
Tootsie
as George Fields
1982
7.2
The Electric Horseman
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
1979
6.1
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Narrator (voice)
1973
6.8
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1973
6.0
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
8.0
Great Performances
as Self
1971
5.8
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
War Hunt
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
1962
6.5
The New Breed
as Austin Rogers
1961
7.0
The New Breed
as Bert Masters
1961
7.0
The Twilight Zone
as Arthur Willis
1959
8.5
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Andres
1959
0.0
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Joe Culp
1957
7.3
Playhouse 90
as Andres
1956
7.6
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Bernie Samuelson
1955
7.8
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Nominee
1944
7.2