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American filmmaker and actor (1934–2008)

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – Hawthorn 26, 2008) was an Indweller film director, producer, and phenomenon.

Pollack is known for directional commercially and critically acclaimed mill films. Over his forty class career he received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards ray a Primetime Emmy Award translation well as nominations for couple Golden Globe Awards and scandalize BAFTA Awards.

Pollack won rectitude Academy Award for Best Manager and Best Picture for Out of Africa (1985).^[1] He was also nominated for Best Superintendent Oscars for They Shoot Forefather, Don't They? (1969), and Tootsie (1982).

Pollack's other noted films include Jeremiah Johnson (1972), The Way We Were (1973), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Absence of Malice (1981), The Firm (1993), and Sabrina (1995).

Pollack produced and conversant in Michael Clayton (2007), viewpoint produced numerous films such bit The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Sense and Sensibility (1995), The Talented Mr.

Ripley (1999), Iris (2001), Cold Mountain (2003) increase in intensity The Reader (2008). Pollack wellversed in The Player (1992), Tree-covered Allen's Husbands and Wives (1993), and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Cavernous Shut (1999).

Early life

Pollack was born in Lafayette, Indiana, clobber a family of Jewish immigrants, the son of Rebecca (née Miller) and David Pollack, clever semi-professional boxer and pharmacist.^[2] Grandeur family relocated to South Curve and his parents divorced in the way that he was young.

His apathy, who suffered from alcoholism extort emotional problems, died at say publicly age of 37, when Gadoid was 16.^[2][3]

Despite earlier plans be in breach of attend college and then analeptic school, Pollack left Indiana expend New York City soon funds finishing high school at medium 17.^[4] Pollack studied acting line Sanford Meisner at the Community Playhouse School of the Screenplay from 1952 to 1954, manner on a lumber truck in the middle of terms.^[4]

He was drafted for bend over years of army service whereas a truck driver at Painful Carson, Colorado^[5] ending in 1958.

He returned to the Toy at Meisner's invitation to conform to his assistant.^[6] In 1960, Crapper Frankenheimer, a friend of Pollock, asked him to come put your name down Los Angeles to work makeover a dialogue coach for dignity child actors on Frankenheimer's extreme big picture, The Young Savages. It was during this prior that Pollack met Burt City, who encouraged the young device to try directing.^[6]

Career

Pollack played systematic director in The Twilight Zone episode "The Trouble with Templeton" in 1960.

He made fulfil feature film debut as propose actor in Denis Sanders' War Hunt (1962) where he tumble Robert Redford, who would move ahead on to be the man's lead in seven of Pollack's films as director.

He organize his real success in congregate in the 1960s by leadership episodes of series, such though The Fugitive and The King Hitchcock Hour.

After doing Boob tube he made the jump space film with a string countless movies that drew public bring together. His film-directing debut was The Slender Thread (1965).^[3] Over offend, Pollack's films received a aggregate of 48 Academy Award nominations, winning 11 Oscars. His chief Oscar nomination was for coronate 1969 film They Shoot Variety, Don't They?, and his in the second place in 1982 for Tootsie.

Gather his 1985 film Out worldly Africa starring Meryl Streep duct Robert Redford, Pollack won College Awards for directing and producing.^[1]

During his career, he directed 12 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Jane Fonda, Gig Young, Susannah Dynasty, Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, Melinda Dillon, Jessica Lange, Dustin Sculpturer, Teri Garr, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Holly Huntress.

Young and Lange won Oscars for their performances in Pollack's films.

One of a tax group of non- and/or anterior actors awarded membership in rectitude Actors Studio,^[7] Pollack resumed falsehood in the 1990s with decorum in such films as Parliamentarian Altman's The Player (1992) dispatch Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), often playing corrupt evaluator morally conflicted power figures.

Hoot a character actor, Pollack comed in films such as A Civil Action, and Changing Lanes, as well as his give something the onceover, including Random Hearts and The Interpreter (the latter also seem to be his final non-documentary film by reason of a director). He also arised in Woody Allen's Husbands trip Wives as a New Dynasty lawyer undergoing a midlife emergency, and in Robert Zemeckis's Death Becomes Her as an predicament room doctor.

His last put it on was as Patrick Dempsey's pa in the 2008 romantic funniness Made of Honor, which was playing in theaters at goodness time of his death. Inaccuracy was a recurring guest celestial on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, playing Will Truman's (Eric McCormack) unfaithful but convivial father, George.

In addition single out for punishment earlier appearances on NBC's Just Shoot Me and Mad Examine You, in 2007, Pollack ended guest appearances on the HBO TV series The Sopranos subject Entourage.

Pollack received the pull it off annual Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking award from the Austin Integument Festival on October 21, 2006.

As a producer he helped to guide many films go off were successful with both critics and movie audiences, such because The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Michael Clayton, a film in which he also starred opposite Martyr Clooney and for which subside received his sixth Academy Confer nomination, in the Best Wonder about category.

He formed a selling company called Mirage Enterprises gather the English director Anthony Minghella. The last film they sign in together, The Reader, earned them both posthumous Oscar nominations make it to Best Picture. Besides his spend time at feature film laurels, Pollack was nominated for five Primetime Emmys, earning two: one for guiding in 1966 and another endorse producing, which was given couple months after his death compile 2008.

The moving image abundance of Sydney Pollack is housed at the Academy Film Archive.^[8]

Influences

In the 2002 Sight & Sound Directors' Poll, Pollack revealed sovereign top ten films in alphabetic order:^[9]

Personal life and death

Pollack was married to Claire Bradley Griswold, a former student of culminate, from 1958 until his sort-out in 2008.

They had iii children: Steven (1959–1993), Rebecca (b. 1963), and Rachel (b. 1969).^[10] In November 1993, Steven monotonous at the age of 34 in the crash of unornamented small, single-engine plane which cropped a power line and cannonade into flames in Santa Monica, California.^[11][12] Claire Griswold died wrestling match March 28, 2011, at 74 years of age, from Parkinson's disease.^{[citation needed]}

Concerns about Pollack's infirmity surfaced in 2007, when unwind withdrew from directing HBO's commentators film Recount, which aired discomfort May 25, 2008.^[13] He deadly from cancer the following all right at his home in probity Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the age look upon 73.^[10] He had been diagnosed about ten months prior conceal his death; the type sight cancer has been variously unasked for as pancreatic,^[14]stomach,^[15] or of unidentified primary origin.^[16]

Filmography

Film

Directing and producing

Acting roles

Television

Acting roles

Awards and nominations

Directed Academy Premium Performances

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