Sydney Pollack

from Lafayette, Indiana, USA

Artwork for TootsieImage of Sydney Pollack

Biography

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer and actor. For his film Out of Africa (1985), Pollack won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture. He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) and Tootsie (1982).

Some of his other best-known works include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Absence of Malice (1981). His subsequent films included Havana (1990), The Firm (1993), The Interpreter (2005), and he produced and acted in Michael Clayton (2007). Pollack also made appearances in Robert Altman's Hollywood mystery The Player (1992), Woody Allen's relationship drama Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's erotic psychological drama Eyes Wide Shut (1999).

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Timeline

2025Aged 91

  • Poster for John Candy: I Like Me

    Self - Director (archive footage)

2020Aged 86

  • Poster for Citizen Jane Fonda

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Babenco: Tell Me When I Die

    Self (archive footage)

2018Aged 84

  • Poster for Amazing Grace

    Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)

2014Aged 80

  • Poster for The Story of The Swimmer

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles

    Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

2012Aged 78

  • Poster for Char·ac·ter

    Self

  • Poster for Silver Linings Playbook

    Thanks

2011Aged 77

  • Poster for Margaret

    Producer

2009Aged 75

2008Aged 74

  • Poster for A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie'

    Self

  • Poster for Made of Honor

    Thomas Sr.

  • Poster for Leatherheads

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Recount

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Reader

    Producer

2007Aged 73

  • Poster for Michael Clayton

    Marty Bach

  • Poster for Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange'

    Self

  • Poster for Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001

    Self

  • Poster for Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick

    Self

  • Poster for View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining'

    Self

  • Poster for Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001

    Self

  • Poster for The Visions of Stanley Kubrick

    Self

  • Poster for James Taylor | One Man Band

    Executive Producer

2006Aged 72

  • Poster for Avenue Montaigne

    Brian Sobinski

  • Poster for Sketches of Frank Gehry

    Self

  • Poster for Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters

    Self

  • Poster for Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light

    Self

  • Poster for Filmmakers in Action

    Self

  • Poster for Catch a Fire

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Breaking and Entering

    Producer

2005Aged 71

  • Poster for The Interpreter

    Jay Pettigrew (uncredited)

  • Poster for The Last Mogul

    Self

  • Poster for Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

    Self

  • Poster for One Six Right

    Self

  • Poster for The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Forty Shades of Blue

    Executive Producer

2004Aged 70

2003Aged 69

2002Aged 68

  • Poster for Changing Lanes

    Stephen Delano

  • Poster for AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories

    Self

  • Poster for The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for Heaven

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for The Quiet American

    Executive Producer

2001Aged 67

2000Aged 66

1999Aged 65

  • Poster for The Way We Were: Looking Back

    Self

  • Poster for Eyes Wide Shut

    Victor Ziegler

  • Poster for The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut'

    Self

  • Poster for Random Hearts

    Carl Broman

  • Poster for The Talented Mr. Ripley

    Executive Producer

1998Aged 64

  • Poster for Independent's Day

    Self

  • Poster for A Civil Action

    Al Eustis

  • Poster for Sliding Doors

    Producer

  • Poster for Poodle Springs

    Executive Producer

1997Aged 63

  • Poster for The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson

    Self

1996Aged 62

  • Poster for Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach

    Self

  • Poster for Love in Hollywood

    Self

1995Aged 61

  • Poster for Red Wind

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Sense and Sensibility

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Sabrina

    Producer

1993Aged 59

  • Poster for Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

    Self

  • Poster for The Firm

    Producer

  • Poster for Searching for Bobby Fischer

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Flesh and Bone

    Executive Producer

1992Aged 58

  • Poster for The Player

    Dick Mellen

  • Poster for Death Becomes Her

    Hospital Doctor (uncredited)

  • Poster for Husbands and Wives

    Jack

  • Poster for Leaving Normal

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for A Private Matter

    Executive Producer

1991Aged 57

  • Poster for Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star

    Self

  • Poster for King Ralph

    Executive Producer

  • Poster for Dead Again

    Executive Producer

1990Aged 56

1989Aged 55

1988Aged 54

  • Poster for Hello Actors Studio

    Self

  • Poster for A Tiger's Tale

    Thanks

  • Poster for Bright Lights, Big City

    Producer

1986Aged 52

  • Poster for Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album

    Self

  • Poster for Barbra Streisand: One Voice

    Self - Audience Member (uncredited)

  • Poster for Nine 1/2 Weeks

    Other

1985Aged 51

  • Poster for Out of Africa

    Producer

1984Aged 50

  • Poster for Songwriter

    Producer

1982Aged 48

  • Poster for The Making of 'Tootsie'

    Self

  • Poster for Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady

    (Unknown)

  • Poster for Tootsie

    George Fields

1981Aged 47

  • Poster for Absence of Malice

    Producer

1980Aged 46

  • Poster for Honeysuckle Rose

    Executive Producer

1979Aged 45

  • Poster for The Electric Horseman

    Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited)

1977Aged 43

  • Poster for Bobby Deerfield

    Producer

1975Aged 41

  • Poster for Three Days of the Condor

    Producer

1974Aged 40

  • Poster for The Yakuza

    Producer

1973Aged 39

  • Poster for The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for The Way We Were

    Director

1972Aged 38

  • Poster for Jeremiah Johnson

    Director

1969Aged 35

  • Poster for Castle Keep

    Director

  • Poster for They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

    Director

1968Aged 34

  • Poster for The Scalphunters

    Director

  • Poster for The Swimmer

    Co-Director

1966Aged 32

  • Poster for This Property Is Condemned

    Director

1965Aged 31

  • Poster for The Slender Thread

    Director

1962Aged 28

  • Poster for War Hunt

    Sgt. Owen Van Horn

1961Aged 27

  • Poster for The Young Savages

    Dialect Coach

1959Aged 25

  • Poster for For Whom the Bell Tolls

    Andres

  • Poster for The Turn of the Screw

    Dialogue Coach

Year unknown

  • Poster for Now Is Tomorrow

    Capt. Stein

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