“I didn’t think anyone would believe him as a woman,” Pollack said. He spent over six hours, with the patience of Job, answering all my questions.”, “Throughout the years, unpretentious and never condescending, he shared with me what he loved about family, storytelling, food, flying and a great bottle of vino,” Cruise said. Pollack married Claire Griswold in 1958 and they had three children: Steven, who was killed in an air crash in 1993, Rebecca and Rachel. Pollack played Victor Ziegler in Stanley Kubrick’s 1999 film “Eyes Wide Shut,” which starred Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. He was 73. He also began to work professionally on the stage. Despite a stunning recreation of Cuba during the 1958 revolution, the blend of old-fashioned Hollywood romance and politics failed to ignite. But when they do what they do best -- whatever it is that’s made them a star -- it’s really exciting.”, Sometimes, he added, “if you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn’t go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. Pollack also received a best director Oscar nomination -- and a New York Film Critics Circle Award -- for “Tootsie.” In the 1982 comedy, Dustin Hoffman stars as Michael Dorsey, an unemployed New York actor who revives his career by transforming himself into a “woman” -- actress Dorothy Michaels -- who lands a role in a TV soap opera and then finds himself falling in love with an actress on the show, played by Jessica Lange. While his directing career was blossoming, Pollack continued to act. I’ve always felt he was a character actor in the body of a leading man.”. , (also 1969). You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Bette Davis is shown with Pollack at the 1986 Golden Globe awards ceremony. Sydney Pollack was an Academy Award-winning director, producer, actor, writer and public figure, who directed and produced over 40 films. “Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better. Co-acting with Redford and the film's equally handsome lead, John Saxon, may have influenced Pollack's career as he realised that fame and fortune was better assured behind the camera, rather than as a character actor. Pollack had been diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago, said Dart. At the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, Pollack said “Tootsie” star Dustin Hoffman pushed the director into playing the actor’s exasperated agent. His filmography included such diverse films as "The Firm," "Sabrina," "The Electric Horseman," "Bobby Deerfield," "Presumed Innocent," "King Ralph" and "Havana." Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Whitey Ford won 236 games in 16 seasons and won six titles at the World Series during his career. All rights reserved. You’ll see how phony the acting looks because real reaction so often means doing nothing.’ It’s always simple. Although his father envisioned him becoming a dentist, Pollack left home after graduating from high school and moved to New York to become an actor. Pollack, whose career was interrupted by Army service from 1957 to 1959, had a small role in the 1955 Broadway comedy “The Dark Is Light Enough” and later appeared on “Playhouse 90" and “The United States Steel Hour,” as well as series such as “The Twilight Zone” and “Have Gun Will Travel.”. Director Sydney Pollack participates in an LA Film Festival panel hosted by OPEN from American Express at the Hammer Museum on June 26, 2007 in Westwood, California. “We started together in New York and he always excelled at everything he set out to do, his friendships and his humanity as much as his talents,” Martin Landau, a longtime close friend and associate in the Actors Studio, said in a statement. A tip of the hat to a class act. Pollack, who co-founded Mirage Productions in 1985, was a founding member of the Sundance Institute, chairman emeritus of the American Cinematheque, a founding member of the Film Foundation, and a member of the board of directors for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. Photograph: AP/Keystone. Sydney Irwin Pollack was born July 1, 1934 in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, to Rebecca (Miller), a homemaker, and David Pollack, a … Joe Morgan, driving force of Big Red Machine, dies at 77. Pollack, shown in 1996, launched his show-business career as an actor and acting teacher in New York City in the 1950s. “A tip of the hat to a class act,” Clooney added. His most recent film, released in the U.S. in 2006, was a departure: “Sketches of Frank Gehry,” a feature-length documentary about his friend, the renowned architect whose work includes the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. In addition to his Oscar for "Out of Africa," which also won best picture, that film also earned Pollack the best director honor from the New York Critics Film Circle. Unlike many other top directors of his era, Pollack was also a film and television actor himself, and he used this unique position to forge a relationship with Hollywood’s elite stars and create some of the most successful films of the 1970s and ’80s.

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