{"id":1810,"date":"2008-05-27T05:58:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-27T04:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2008-05-27T06:34:44","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T05:34:44","slug":"sydney-pollack-dies-at-73","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/05\/27\/sydney-pollack-dies-at-73\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney Pollack dies at 73"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Director and actor Sydney Pollack<\/strong><\/a> has died in Los Angeles aged 73.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with the gender-bending comedy “Tootsie” and the period drama “Out of Africa,” has died.<\/p>\n

He was 73.<\/p>\n

Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, surrounded by family, said publicist Leslee Dart.<\/p>\n

Pollack had been diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago, said Dart.<\/p>\n

Pollack, who occasionally appeared on the screen himself, worked with and gained the respect of Hollywood’s best actors in a long career that reached prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n

“Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better. A tip of the hat to a class act,” George Clooney said in a statement from his publicist.<\/p>\n

“He’ll be missed terribly,” Clooney said.<\/p>\n

Last fall, he played Marty Bach opposite Clooney in “Michael Clayton,” a drama that examines a law firm’s fixer. The film, which Pollack co-produced, received seven Oscar nominations, including for best picture and a best actor nod for Clooney. Tilda Swinton won the Oscar for supporting actress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He will be best remembered for directing films such as They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?<\/a> (1969), Jeremiah Johnson<\/a> (1972), Three Days of the Condor<\/a> (1975), Absence of Malice<\/a> (1981), Tootsie<\/a> (1982) and Out of Africa<\/a> (1985).<\/p>\n

As an actor he appeared in titles such as Husbands and Wives<\/a> (1992), Eyes Wide Shut<\/a> (1999), Changing Lanes<\/a> (2002) and the aforementioned Michael Clayton<\/a> (2007).<\/p>\n

His producing work helped numerous films get off the ground with involvement in The Fabulous Baker Boys<\/a> (1989), Sense and Sensibility<\/a> (1995), The Talented Mr. Ripley<\/a> (1999), Iris<\/a> (2001), The Quiet American<\/a> (2002), Cold Mountain<\/a> (2003) and Michael Clayton<\/a> (2007).<\/a><\/p>\n

His illness had come to public attention after he withdrew in August 2007 as the director of the HBO television movie Recount<\/a> for unspecified health reasons.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/p>\n

Here is Sydney talking to Charlie Rose in 2007 about his documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Here he is talking to John Gallagher in the early 80s about Three Days of the Condor<\/a> and Bobby Deerfield<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is a clip from Michael Clayton<\/a> where Sydney, playing the law firm’s senior partner Marty Bach<\/a>, tells Michael (George Clooney) how he feels about the case:<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object> Michael Clayton – What If Arthur Was On To Something<\/a><\/p>\n

> Original AP article<\/a>
\n> Obiturary at the New York Times<\/a>
\n> Sydney Pollack<\/a> at the IMDb
\n> Sydney’s 10 favourite films in a 2002 Sight and Sound poll<\/a>
\n> Guardian interview from 2002<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Director and actor Sydney Pollack has died in Los Angeles aged 73. The Associated Press report: LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with the gender-bending comedy “Tootsie” and the period drama “Out of Africa,” has died. He was 73. Pollack died of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[236],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}