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Sydney Pollack, Actor, Producer and Academy Award-Winning Director, Dies at 73
Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of the 1985 Best Picture classic “Out of Africa” and the gender-bending 1982 comedy “Tootsie,” has died at the age of 73 after a battle with stomach cancer.
Pollack’s career spanned nearly 50 years and allowed him to direct some of Hollywood’s most notable stars; Robert Redford and Meryl Streep in “Out of Africa”; Redford and Faye Dunaway in “Three Days of the Condor”; Robert Mitchum in “The Yakuza”; Dustin Hoffman in “Tootsie”; Redford, Barbra Streisand, Patrick O’Neil, Sally Kirkland, James Woods, and Susan Blakely in “The Way We Were”; Nicole Kidman and Sean Pen in “The Interpreter”; Harrison Ford in “Sabrina”; and Tom Cruise, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Holly Hunter and George Busey in “The Firm.”
Pollack was also responsible for producing more than 40 films including “The Fabulous Baker Boys” with Jeff Bridges and Michelle Pfeiffer; “The Talented Mr. Ripley” with Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett and Philip Seymour Hoffman; “Cold Mountain” with Kidman, Law, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Renee Zellweger and Natalie Portman; and “Michael Clayton” with George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson.
During his career Pollack also appeared in more than 15 films and television shows including HBO’s “The Sopranos,” and “Entourage” as well as “Michael Clayton,” “Changing Lanes,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Made of Honor.”
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