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Sydney Pollack

Crew | * 07/01/1934 († 73, 05/26/2008) | Lafayette, Indiana (United States of America (USA))
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Photo of Sydney Pollack
Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Documentaries | Romance / Love

Known for these Movies & Shows

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel. ...

Out of Africa

PG

1985 | 3.6/5 | 2h 41min
History, Romance / Love, Drama
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A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit. ...

Michael Clayton

R

2007 | 3.4/5 | 1h 59min
Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime
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After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends ...

Eyes Wide Shut

R

1999 | 3.7/5 | 2h 39min
Drama, Thriller, Mystery
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When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego - Dorothy Michaels - in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up ...

Tootsie

PG

1982 | 3.6/5 | 1h 56min
Comedy, Romance / Love
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Awards & Nominations for Sydney Pollack

Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Berlinale Camera National Board of Review Award for Best Film Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series 3x Academy Award for Best Director 4x Academy Award for Best Picture European Film Award for Best Film

Movies with Sydney Pollack as Actor(58)

as Self (archive footage)2020 Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)2018 Amazing Grace
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2014 Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self (archive footage)2014 The Story of the Swimmer
as Self (archive footage)2014 And the Oscar Goes To...
as himself2012 Char·ac·ter
as himself2009 Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
as himself2008 A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Thomas Sr.2008 Made of Honor
as himself2007 Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
as Marty Bach2007 Michael Clayton
as himself2007 View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
as himself2007 Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
as himself2007 Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
as himself2007 Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as himself2007 The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
as himself2006 Filmmakers in Action
as Brian Sobinski2006 Avenue Montaigne
as himself2006 Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as himself2006 Sketches of Frank Gehry
as himself2006 Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as himself2005 The Last Mogul
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)2005 The Interpreter
as himself2005 One Six Right
as Narrator (voice)2005 The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
as himself2005 Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as himself2004 A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
as himself2004 Something About Sydney Pollack
as Narrator2003 Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as himself2003 A Decade Under the Influence
as Stephen Delano2002 Changing Lanes
as Narrator (voice)2002 The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as himself2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Studio Executive (voice)2001 The Majestic
as himself2001 The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as himself2000 Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
as himself2000 A Song of Africa
as himself1999 The Way We Were: Looking Back
as Victor Ziegler1999 Eyes Wide Shut
as Carl Broman1999 Random Hearts
as himself1999 The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
as Al Eustis1998 A Civil Action
as himself1998 Independent's Day
as himself1996 Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as himself1996 Love in Hollywood
as himself1993 Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)1992 Death Becomes Her
as Jack1992 Husbands and Wives
as Dick Mellen1992 The Player
as himself1991 Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as himself1990 Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
as himself1989 Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as George Fields1982 Tootsie
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)1979 The Electric Horseman
as Narrator (voice)1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Narrator (voice)1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn1962 War Hunt
as Andres1959 For Whom the Bell Tolls

TV Shows/Series with Sydney Pollack as Actor(21)

as himself2008 Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
as himself2004 Entourage
1999 The Directors
as Warren Feldman1999 The Sopranos
as George Truman1998 Will & Grace
as Grant Trimble (voice)1997 King of the Hill
as himself1997 Just Shoot Me!
as himself1994 Inside the Actors Studio
as Holden Thorpe (voice)1993 Frasier
as Dr. Sydney Warren1992 Mad About You
as himself1991 Pebble Mill
as himself1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as himself1972 Le Grand Échiquier
as himself1971 Great Performances
as Self - Guest1968 The Dick Cavett Show
as Austin Rogers1961 The New Breed
as Bert Masters1961 The New Breed
as Arthur Willis1959 The Twilight Zone
1957 Have Gun, Will Travel
as Andres1956 Playhouse 90
as Bernie Samuelson1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Movies with Sydney Pollack as Crew(83)

Directing/Director2018 Amazing Grace
Crew/Thanks2012 Silver Linings Playbook
Production/Producer2011 Margaret
Production/Producer2008 The Reader
Production/Executive Producer2008 Recount
Production/Executive Producer2008 Leatherheads
Production/Producer2007 Michael Clayton
Production/Producer2006 Breaking and Entering
Camera/Director of Photography2006 Sketches of Frank Gehry
Directing/Director2006 Sketches of Frank Gehry
Production/Executive Producer2006 Sketches of Frank Gehry
Production/Executive Producer2006 Catch a Fire
Directing/Director2005 The Interpreter
Production/Executive Producer2005 The Interpreter
Production/Executive Producer2005 Forty Shades of Blue
Production/Executive Producer2003 In the Name of Love
Production/Producer2003 Cold Mountain
Production/Executive Producer2002 Heaven
Production/Executive Producer2002 The Quiet American
Production/Executive Producer2001 Iris
Production/Executive Producer2001 Birthday Girl
Production/Executive Producer2001 Blow Dry
Production/Executive Producer2000 Up at the Villa
Directing/Director1999 Random Hearts
Production/Producer1999 Random Hearts
Production/Executive Producer1999 The Talented Mr. Ripley
Production/Producer1998 Sliding Doors
Production/Executive Producer1998 Poodle Springs
Production/Executive Producer1995 The Professional Man
Production/Executive Producer1995 A Dime a Dance
Production/Executive Producer1995 Tomorrow I Die
Production/Executive Producer1995 The Black Bargain
Production/Executive Producer1995 Fly Paper
Production/Executive Producer1995 Red Wind
Production/Executive Producer1995 Sense and Sensibility
Directing/Director1995 Sabrina
Production/Producer1995 Sabrina
Production/Executive Producer1993 The Quiet Room
Production/Executive Producer1993 Dead End for Delia
Production/Executive Producer1993 I'll Be Waiting
Production/Executive Producer1993 Murder, Obliquely
Production/Executive Producer1993 Searching for Bobby Fischer
Directing/Director1993 The Firm
Production/Producer1993 The Firm
Production/Executive Producer1993 Flesh and Bone
Production/Executive Producer1992 A Private Matter
Production/Executive Producer1992 Leaving Normal
Production/Executive Producer1991 King Ralph
Production/Executive Producer1991 Dead Again
Production/Executive Producer1990 White Palace
Directing/Other1990 Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Production/Executive Producer1990 Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Directing/Director1990 Havana
Production/Producer1990 Havana
Production/Producer1990 Presumed Innocent
Production/Executive Producer1989 The Fabulous Baker Boys
Production/Producer1988 Bright Lights, Big City
Crew/Thanks1988 A Tiger's Tale
Crew/Other1986 Nine 1/2 Weeks
Directing/Director1985 Out of Africa
Production/Producer1985 Out of Africa
Production/Producer1984 Songwriter
Directing/Director1982 Tootsie
Production/Producer1982 Tootsie
Directing/Director1981 Absence of Malice
Production/Producer1981 Absence of Malice
Production/Executive Producer1980 Honeysuckle Rose
Directing/Director1979 The Electric Horseman
Directing/Director1977 Bobby Deerfield
Production/Producer1977 Bobby Deerfield
Directing/Director1975 Three Days of the Condor
Production/Producer1975 Three Days of the Condor
Directing/Director1974 The Yakuza
Production/Producer1974 The Yakuza
Directing/Director1973 The Way We Were
Directing/Director1972 Jeremiah Johnson
Directing/Director1969 Castle Keep
Directing/Director1969 They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Directing/Director1968 The Scalphunters
Directing/Director1966 This Property Is Condemned
Directing/Director1965 The Slender Thread
Crew/Dialect Coach1961 The Young Savages
Crew/Dialogue Coach1959 Startime: Turn of the Screw

TV Shows/Series with Sydney Pollack as Crew(11)

Production/Executive Producer1993 Fallen Angels
Directing/Director1964 Slattery's People
Directing/Director1963 Breaking Point
Directing/Director1963 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Directing/Director1963 The Fugitive
Directing/Director1962 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Directing/Director1961 Cain's Hundred
Directing/Director1961 Target: The Corruptors!
Directing/Director1961 The Defenders
Directing/Director1961 Ben Casey
Directing/Director1960 The Tall Man

Full Name: Sydney Irwin Pollack
Born: Sunday, 07/01 1934 (July) in Lafayette, Indiana (United States of America (USA))
Died: Monday, 05/26 2008 (May) in Pacific Palisades (aged: 73)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Children: Rachel Pollack
Student of: Sanford Meisner
Other names for Sydney Pollack (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Sidney Pollack"
"Sydney Irwin Pollack"
Sydney Pollack frequently works together with these people:
David Herman (89x, Actor)
Phil Hendrie (19x, Actor)
William Horberg (19x, Crew)
Robert McCord (18x, Actor)
Russell Collins (18x, Actor)
Anthony Minghella (17x, Crew)
Lindsay Doran (17x, Crew)
Scott Klace (17x, Actor)
Ed Asner (15x, Actor)
Jack Klugman (15x, Actor)
Raymond Bailey (15x, Actor)
George Mitchell (15x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:5688, Added: 03/23/2018, Last updated: 01/03/2026