Sydney Pollack

1934

2008

Director, Producer, Writer, Actor

Sydney Pollack was an American director, producer, and actor active in film from 1962 to 2008. He began his career as an actor, was a television director in the early 1960s, then went on to direct, produce, and act in dozens of films. Pollack received Academy Awards in the directing and best picture categories for OUT OF AFRICA (1985).

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