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
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
as Victor Ziegler
Death Becomes Her (1992)
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
The Player (1992)
as Dick Mellen
Made of Honor (2008)
as Thomas Sr.
Michael Clayton (2007)
as Marty Bach
The Interpreter (2005)
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
The Majestic (2001)
as Studio Executive (voice)
Tootsie (1982)
as George Fields
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret (1990)
as Self
John Candy: I Like Me (2025)
as Self - Director (archive footage)
Random Hearts (1999)
as Carl Broman
A Civil Action (1998)
as Al Eustis
Changing Lanes (2002)
as Stephen Delano
The Electric Horseman (1979)
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
as Self
Amazing Grace (2018)
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
War Hunt (1962)
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach (1996)
as Self
Husbands and Wives (1992)
as Jack
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
as Self
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz (2005)
as Narrator (voice)
Barbra Streisand: One Voice (1986)
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
Char·ac·ter (2012)
as Self
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005)
as Self
Sketches of Frank Gehry (2006)
as Self
Hello Actors Studio (1988)
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller (2002)
as Narrator (voice)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2003)
as Narrator
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks (1973)
as Narrator (voice)
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories (2002)
as Self
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
Actor
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999)
as Self
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007)
as Self
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre (1989)
as Self (voice)
Independent's Day (1998)
as Self
Citizen Jane Fonda (2020)
Actor
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O (1993)
as Self
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light (2006)
as Self
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (2000)
as Self
Avenue Montaigne (2006)
as Brian Sobinski
Filmmakers in Action (2006)
as Self
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star (1991)
as Self
Love in Hollywood (1996)
as Self
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
as Self
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick (2007)
as Self
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' (2007)
as Self
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1959)
as Andres
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006)
as Self
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' (2007)
as Self
Adapting Austen (2009)
as Self
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album (1986)
as Self
The Last Mogul (2005)
as Self
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Making of 'Tootsie' (1982)
as Self
One Six Right (2005)
as Self
The Story of The Swimmer (2014)
as Self (archive footage)
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand (2004)
as Self
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand (2001)
as self
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004)
as Self
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007)
as Self
Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma (2000)
as Self
A Very Quiet Man (2009)
as Self
Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul (2001)
as Self
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" (2001)
as Self
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' (2008)
as Self
A Song of Africa (2000)
as Self
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies (1990)
as Self
Now Is Tomorrow (—)
as Capt. Stein
The Way We Were: Looking Back (1999)
as Self
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009)
as Self
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' (2004)
as Self
In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema (2004)
as Self
More About the Condor (2003)
as Self
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson (1997)
as Self
Something About Sydney Pollack (2004)
as Self