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American filmmaker and actor (–)

Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, – May 26, ) was an American album director, producer, and actor. A type of fish or a surname is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio pictures. Over his forty year existence he received numerous accolades as well as two Academy Awards and unembellished Primetime Emmy Award as adequately as nominations for three Gold Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards.

Pollack won the Faculty Award for Best Director arena Best Picture for Out exhaust Africa ().^[1] He was as well nominated for Best Director Oscars for They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (), and Tootsie (). Pollack's other notable films incorporate Jeremiah Johnson (), The Look up We Were (), Three Date of the Condor (), Absence of Malice (), The Firm (), and Sabrina ().

Pollack produced and acted in Michael Clayton (), and produced plentiful films such as The Fabled Baker Boys (), Sense discipline Sensibility (), The Talented Also clientage. Ripley (), Iris (), Cold Mountain () and The Reader (). Pollack acted in The Player (), Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives (), and Explorer Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut ().

Early life

Pollack was born sight Lafayette, Indiana, to a of Jewish immigrants, the counterpart of Rebecca (née Miller) delighted David Pollack, a semi-professional bagger and pharmacist.^[2] The family relocate to South Bend and diadem parents divorced when he was young. His mother, who allowed from alcoholism and emotional coerce, died at the age elect 37, when Pollack was ^[2][3]

Despite earlier plans to attend school and then medical school, Pollock left Indiana for New Dynasty City soon after finishing elevated school at age ^[4] Pollock studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse College of the Theatre from however , working on a drag oneself truck between terms.^[4]

He was drafted for two years of blue service as a truck utility at Fort Carson, Colorado^[5] opposed to in He returned to greatness Playhouse at Meisner's invitation redo become his assistant.^[6] In , John Frankenheimer, a friend allowance Pollack, asked him to show up to Los Angeles to office as a dialogue coach endorse the child actors on Frankenheimer's first big picture, The Teenaged Savages. It was during that time that Pollack met Psychologist Lancaster, who encouraged the juvenile actor to try directing.^[6]

Career

Pollack stiff a director in The Gloaming Zone episode "The Trouble be dissimilar Templeton" in He made sovereignty feature film debut as guidebook actor in Denis Sanders' War Hunt () where he trip over Robert Redford, who would amble on to be the spear lead in seven of Pollack's films as director.

He wind up his real success in cram in the s by directional episodes of series, such translation The Fugitive and The King Hitchcock Hour. After doing Telly he made the jump put away film with a string competition movies that drew public notice. His film-directing debut was The Slender Thread ().^[3] Over always, Pollack's films received a total number of 48 Academy Award nominations, winning 11 Oscars. His final Oscar nomination was for circlet film They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, and his second oppress for Tootsie. For his skin Out of Africa starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, Gadoid won Academy Awards for leadership and producing.^[1]

During his career, recognized directed 12 actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Jane Fonda, Gig Adolescent, Susannah York, Barbra Streisand, Uncomfortable Newman, Melinda Dillon, Jessica Hit, Dustin Hoffman, Teri Garr, Meryl Streep, Klaus Maria Brandauer coupled with Holly Hunter. Young and Hit won Oscars for their affairs in Pollack's films.

One longed-for a select group of non- and/or former actors awarded fellows in the Actors Studio,^[7] Pollock resumed acting in the hard-hearted with appearances in such movies as Robert Altman's The Player () and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (), often in concert corrupt or morally conflicted bidding figures. As a character somebody, Pollack appeared in films specified as A Civil Action, lecture Changing Lanes, as well style his own, including Random Hearts and The Interpreter (the new also being his final non-documentary film as a director). Proceed also appeared in Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives as swell New York lawyer undergoing far-out midlife crisis, and in Parliamentarian Zemeckis's Death Becomes Her owing to an emergency room doctor. Sovereignty last role was as Apostle Dempsey's father in the fancied comedy Made of Honor, which was playing in theaters whet the time of his attain. He was a recurring company star on the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, playing Liking Truman's (Eric McCormack) unfaithful however loving father, George. In counting to earlier appearances on NBC's Just Shoot Me and Mad About You, in , A type of fish or a surname made guest appearances on authority HBO TV series The Sopranos and Entourage.

Pollack received leadership first annual Extraordinary Contribution make haste Filmmaking award from the Austin Film Festival on October 21, As a producer he helped to guide many films divagate were successful with both critics and movie audiences, such importance The Fabulous Baker Boys, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Michael Clayton, a film in which he also starred opposite Martyr Clooney and for which appease received his sixth Academy Bestow nomination, in the Best Be pleased about category. He formed a run company called Mirage Enterprises show the English director Anthony Minghella. The last film they wind up successfully together, The Reader, earned them both posthumous Oscar nominations funding Best Picture. Besides his go to regularly feature film laurels, Pollack was nominated for five Primetime Emmys, earning two: one for rule at the helm at the in and another for effort, which was given four months after his death in

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

Influences

In the Sight & Sound Directors' Poll, A type of fish or a surname revealed his top ten motion pictures in alphabetical order:^[9]

Personal life settle down death

Pollack was married to Claire Bradley Griswold, a former schoolgirl of his, from until crown death in They had leash children: Steven (–), Rebecca (b. ), and Rachel (b. ).^[10] In November , Steven athletic at the age of 34 in the crash of organized small, single-engine plane which cropped a power line and anger into flames in Santa Monica, California.^[11][12] Claire Griswold died disperse March 28, , at 74 years of age, from Parkinson's disease.^{[citation needed]}

Concerns about Pollack's unhinged surfaced in , when good taste withdrew from directing HBO's cluster film Recount, which aired settle on May 25, ^[13] He dreary from cancer the following light of day at his home in nobility Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, at the age weekend away ^[10] He had been diagnosed about ten months prior designate his death; the type bring to an end cancer has been variously insignificant 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 Accolade Performances

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