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Sydney Pollack

Born 1934-07-01
Died 2008-05-26
📍 Lafayette, Indiana, USA

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).

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Filmography 91

John Candy: I Like Me
as Self - Director (archive footage)
2025
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Citizen Jane Fonda
2020
Amazing Grace
as Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
2018
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2014
The Story of The Swimmer
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Char·ac·ter
as Self
2012
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
as Self
2009
Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence
as Self
2008
Made of Honor
as Thomas Sr.
2008
A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'
as Self
2008
Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'
as Self
2007
View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'
as Self
2007
The Visions of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
2007
Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001
as Self
2007
Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick
as Self
2007
Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001
as Self
2007
Michael Clayton
as Marty Bach
2007
Filmmakers in Action
as Self
2006
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as Self
2006
Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
as Self
2006
Sketches of Frank Gehry
as Self
2006
Avenue Montaigne
as Brian Sobinski
2006
The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz
as Narrator (voice)
2005
One Six Right
as Self
2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self
2005
The Last Mogul
as Self
2005
The Interpreter
as Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)
2005
Entourage
as Sydney Pollack
2004
Something About Sydney Pollack
as Self
2004
A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard'
as Self
2004
Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand
as Self
2004
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
as Narrator
2003
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
as Narrator (voice)
2002
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories
as Self
2002
Changing Lanes
as Stephen Delano
2002
The Majestic
as Studio Executive (voice)
2001
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
2001
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand
as self
2001
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
as Self
2001
Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley'
as Self
2000
A Song of Africa
as Self
2000
Random Hearts
as Carl Broman
1999
The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'
as Self
1999
Eyes Wide Shut
as Victor Ziegler
1999
The Sopranos
as Warren Feldman
1999
The Way We Were: Looking Back
as Self
1999
The Directors
as Self
1999
A Civil Action
as Al Eustis
1998
Will & Grace
as George Truman
1998
Independent's Day
as Self
1998
The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson
as Self
1997
Just Shoot Me!
as Sydney Pollack
1997
King of the Hill
as Grant Trimble (voice)
1997
Love in Hollywood
as Self
1996
Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach
as Self
1996
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
American Cinema
as Self
1994
Frasier
as Holden Thorpe (voice)
1993
Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
as Self
1993
Mad About You
as Dr. Sydney Warren
1992
Husbands and Wives
as Jack
1992
Death Becomes Her
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
1992
The Player
as Dick Mellen
1992
Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star
as Self
1991
Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies
as Self
1990
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
1988
Barbra Streisand: One Voice
as Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
1986
Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album
as Self
1986
Tootsie
as George Fields
1982
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
The Electric Horseman
as Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)
1979
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1973
The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks
as Narrator (voice)
1973
Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
1972
Great Performances
as Self
1971
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
War Hunt
as Sgt. Owen Van Horn
1962
The New Breed
as Austin Rogers
1961
The New Breed
as Bert Masters
1961
Startime
as Harry
1959
The Twilight Zone
as Arthur Willis
1959
For Whom the Bell Tolls
as Andres
1959
Have Gun, Will Travel
as Joe Culp
1957
Playhouse 90
as Andres
1956
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Bernie Samuelson
1955
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Nominee
1944
Now Is Tomorrow
as Capt. Stein