Sydney Pollack

Highest Rated:
100% Songwriter (1984)
Lowest Rated:
14% Made of Honor (2008)
Birthday:
Jul 1, 1934
Birthplace:
Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Bio:
Sydney Pollack was born to first generation Russian-Jewish Americans on July 1, 1934. After graduating from his Indiana high school, he went to New York and became a student at the Neighborhood Playhouse, a celebrated Greenwich Village school, where he studied under Sanford Meisner. He served two…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 14% - 100%
Number of Movies: 52
Box Office Since 2001: $373.4M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2012 Char-ac-ter
  • Actor
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2011 71% Margaret
  • Producer
$46.5k
2009 Character
  • Actor
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2008 14% Made of Honor
  • Thomas Sr.
$46.0M
2007 90% Michael Clayton
  • Marty Bach
  • Producer
$49.0M
2006 33% Breaking and Entering
  • Producer
$0.9M
2006 74% Avenue Montaigne (Fauteuils d'orchestre) (Orchestra Seats)
  • Brian Sobinski
$1.9M
2006 81% Sketches of Frank Gehry
  • Director
  • Actor
$0.2M
2006 One Six Right: The Romance of Flying
  • Actor
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2005 One Six Right
  • Actor
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2005 57% The Interpreter
  • Director
  • Producer
$72.5M
2005 Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters
  • Actor
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2004 Dream Jets
  • Actor
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2003 71% Cold Mountain
  • Producer
$95.6M
2003 87% The Quiet American
  • Producer
$12.8M
2003 77% A Decade Under the Influence
  • Actor
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2003 95% Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin
  • Narrator
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2002 77% Changing Lanes
  • Andrew Delano
$66.7M
2001 85% Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
  • Actor
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2001 Fidel: The Untold Story
  • Himself
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2001 42% The Majestic
  • Studio Executive
$27.7M
2000 19% Blow Dry
  • Producer
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1999 15% Random Hearts
  • Carl Broman
  • Director
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1999 77% Eyes Wide Shut
  • Victor Ziegler
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1999 83% The Talented Mr. Ripley
  • Producer
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1998 60% A Civil Action
  • Al Eustis
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1998 Independent's Day
  • Actor
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1995 65% Sabrina
  • Director
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1993 75% The Firm
  • Producer
  • Director
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1993 Willie Nelson: My Life
  • Actor
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1992 98% The Player
  • Dick Mellen
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1992 43% Death Becomes Her
  • Doctor
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1992 100% Husbands and Wives
  • Jack
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1992 25% Leaving Normal
  • Producer
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1990 24% Havana
  • Director
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1990 94% Presumed Innocent
  • Producer
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1985 57% Out of Africa
  • Director
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1984 100% Songwriter
  • Producer
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1982 88% Tootsie
  • Director
  • George Fields
  • Producer
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1981 86% Absence Of Malice
  • Director
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1979 68% The Electric Horseman
  • Man Who Makes a Pass at Alice
  • Director
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1977 22% Bobby Deerfield (Heaven Has No Favorites)
  • Producer
  • Director
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1975 87% Three Days of the Condor
  • Director
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1974 50% The Yakuza
  • Director
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1973 63% The Way We Were
  • Director
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1972 93% Jeremiah Johnson
  • Director
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1969 43% Castle Keep
  • Director
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1969 83% They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  • Director
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1968 75% The Scalphunters
  • Director
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1966 64% This Property Is Condemned
  • Director
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1965 The Slender Thread
  • Director
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1962 War Hunt
  • Sgt. Van Horn
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Quotes from Sydney Pollack's Characters

    1. Victor Ziegler: Who do you think those people were? Those were not just some ordinary people. If I told you their names... no, I'm not going to tell you their names... but if I did, I don't think you'd sleep so well at night.
    From Eyes Wide Shut. Submitted by Scott D (14 months ago)
    1. Victor Ziegler: Life goes on until it doesn't.
    From Eyes Wide Shut. Submitted by Scott D (14 months ago)
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