Sydney Pollack

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).

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Known For

The Sopranos

Warren Feldman

Frasier

Holden Thorpe (voice)

King of the Hill

Grant Trimble (voice)

Will & Grace

George Truman

Entourage

Sydney Pollack

Great Performances

Self

Have Gun, Will Travel

Joe Culp

Golden Globe Awards

Self - Nominee

Filmography

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

Year	TV Show	Role
2008	Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence	Self
2004	Entourage	Sydney Pollack
1999	The Sopranos	Warren Feldman
1999	The Directors	Self
1998	Will & Grace	George Truman
1997	King of the Hill	Grant Trimble (voice)
1997	Just Shoot Me!	Sydney Pollack
1994	Inside the Actors Studio	Self
1994	American Cinema	Self
1993	Frasier	Holden Thorpe (voice)
1992	Mad About You	Dr. Sydney Warren
1991	Pebble Mill	Self
1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self
1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self
1971	Great Performances	Self
1968	The Dick Cavett Show	Self - Guest
1961	The New Breed	Austin Rogers
1961	The New Breed	Bert Masters
1959	The Twilight Zone	Arthur Willis
1957	Have Gun, Will Travel	Joe Culp
1956	Playhouse 90	Andres
1955	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Bernie Samuelson
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee / Nominee