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.

Filmography

• 2012Silver Linings Playbook — Thanks
• 2011Margaret — Producer
• 2008Leatherheads — Executive Producer
• 2008Made of Honor — Thomas Sr.
• 2008Recount — Executive Producer
• 2008The Reader — Producer
• 2007James Taylor | One Man Band — Executive Producer
• 2007Michael Clayton — Marty Bach, Producer
• 2006Avenue Montaigne — Brian Sobinski
• 2006Breaking and Entering — Producer
• 2006Catch a Fire — Executive Producer
• 2006Sketches of Frank Gehry — Self, Director, Executive Producer, Director of Photography
• 2005Forty Shades of Blue — Executive Producer
• 2005The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz — Narrator (voice)
• 2005The Interpreter — Jay Pettigrew (uncredited), Executive Producer, Director
• Entourage — Sydney Pollack
• 2003Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin — Narrator
• 2003Cold Mountain — Producer
• 2003In the Name of Love — Executive Producer
• 2002Changing Lanes — Stephen Delano
• 2002Heaven — Executive Producer
• 2002The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller — Narrator (voice)
• 2002The Quiet American — Executive Producer
• 2001Birthday Girl — Executive Producer
• 2001Blow Dry — Executive Producer
• 2001Iris — Executive Producer
• 2001The Majestic — Studio Executive (voice)
• 2000Up at the Villa — Executive Producer
• 1999Eyes Wide Shut — Victor Ziegler
• 1999Random Hearts — Carl Broman, Producer, Director
• The Sopranos — Warren Feldman
• 1999The Talented Mr. Ripley — Executive Producer
• 1998A Civil Action — Al Eustis
• 1998Poodle Springs — Executive Producer
• 1998Sliding Doors — Producer
• Will & Grace — George Truman
• Just Shoot Me! — Sydney Pollack
• King of the Hill — Grant Trimble (voice)
• 1995Red Wind — Executive Producer
• 1995Sabrina — Producer, Director
• 1995Sense and Sensibility — Executive Producer
• Fallen Angels — Executive Producer
• 1993Flesh and Bone — Executive Producer
• Frasier — Holden Thorpe (voice)
• 1993Searching for Bobby Fischer — Executive Producer
• 1993The Firm — Director, Producer
• 1992A Private Matter — Executive Producer
• 1992Death Becomes Her — Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
• 1992Husbands and Wives — Jack
• 1992Leaving Normal — Executive Producer
• Mad About You — Dr. Sydney Warren
• 1992The Player — Dick Mellen
• 1991Dead Again — Executive Producer
• 1991King Ralph — Executive Producer
• 1990Havana — Director, Producer
• 1990Presumed Innocent — Producer
• 1990Sanford Meisner Master Class — Director
• 1990Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret — Self, Executive Producer, Other
• 1990White Palace — Executive Producer
• 1989The Fabulous Baker Boys — Executive Producer
• 1988A Tiger's Tale — Thanks
• 1988Bright Lights, Big City — Producer
• 1986Nine 1/2 Weeks — Other
• 1985Out of Africa — Director, Producer
• 1984Songwriter — Producer
• 1982Tootsie — George Fields, Director, Producer
• 1981Absence of Malice — Director, Producer
• 1980Honeysuckle Rose — Executive Producer
• 1979The Electric Horseman — Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited), Director
• The South Bank Show
• 1977Bobby Deerfield — Director, Producer
• 1975Three Days of the Condor — Director, Producer
• 1974The Yakuza — Director, Producer
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks — Narrator (voice)
• 1973The Way We Were — Director
• 1972Jeremiah Johnson — Director
• 1969Castle Keep — Director
• 1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They? — Director
• 1968The Scalphunters — Director
• 1968The Swimmer — Co-Director
• 1966This Property Is Condemned — Director
• 1965The Slender Thread — Director
• Slattery's People — Director
• Arrest and Trial — Director
• Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre — Director
• Breaking Point — Director
• The Fugitive — Director
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — Director
• 1962War Hunt — Sgt. Owen Van Horn
• Ben Casey — Director
• Cain's Hundred — Director
• Frontier Circus — Director
• Target: The Corruptors! — Director
• The Defenders — Director
• The New Breed — Austin Rogers, Bert Masters
• 1961The Young Savages — Dialect Coach
• The Tall Man — Director
• 1959For Whom the Bell Tolls — Andres
• Startime — Harry, Dialogue
• 1959The Turn of the Screw — Dialogue Coach
• The Twilight Zone — Arthur Willis
• 1958Now Is Tomorrow — Capt. Stein
• Have Gun, Will Travel — Joe Culp
• Playhouse 90 — Andres
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Bernie Samuelson

Appearances as themselves (65)

• 2025John Candy: I Like Me — Self - Director (archive footage)
• 2020Babenco: Tell Me When I Die — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Citizen Jane Fonda — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Amazing Grace — Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2014Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• 2014The Story of The Swimmer — Self (archive footage)
• 2012Char·ac·ter — Self
• 2009A Very Quiet Man — Self
• 2009Adapting Austen — Self
• 2009Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood — Self
• 2008A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' — Self
• Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence — Self
• 2007Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' — Self
• 2007Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick — Self
• 2007Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 — Self
• 2007The Visions of Stanley Kubrick — Self
• 2007View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' — Self
• 2007Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 — Self
• 2006Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters — Self
• 2006Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light — Self
• 2006Filmmakers in Action — Self
• 2005Filmmakers vs. Tycoons — Self
• 2005One Six Right — Self
• 2005The Last Mogul — Self
• 2004A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' — Self
• 2004Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand — Self
• 2004In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema — Self
• 2004Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz — Self
• 2004Something About Sydney Pollack — Self
• 2003A Decade Under the Influence — Self
• 2003More About the Condor — Self
• 2002AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories — Self
• 2001AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand — self
• 2001Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul — Self
• 2001Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot — Self
• 2001Stanley Kubrick - Ein Leben für den Film — Self
• 2001The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" — Self
• 2000A Song of Africa — Self
• 2000Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' — Self
• 2000Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma — Self
• The Directors — Self
• 1999The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' — Self
• 1999The Way We Were: Looking Back — Self
• 1998Independent's Day — Self
• 1997The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson — Self
• 1996Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach — Self
• 1996Love in Hollywood — Self
• American Cinema — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• 1993Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O — Self
• Pebble Mill — Self
• 1991Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star — Self
• 1990Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies — Self
• 1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre — Self (voice)
• 1988Hello Actors Studio — Self
• 1986Barbra Streisand: One Voice — Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
• 1986Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album — Self
• 1982Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady — Self
• 1982The Making of 'Tootsie' — Self
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• 1973The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor — Self - Narrator (voice)
• Le Grand Échiquier — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Nominee, Self - Nominee / Nominee