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Known for:	Tootsie, The Interpreter, Out of Africa
Birthday:	1 July 1934, Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Height:	6' (1.83 m)

MERYL STREEP has blasted late director SYDNEY POLLACK for unleashing a lion on her while shooting Oscar-winning film OUT OF AFRICA - following years of denials from the filmmaker.Streep was assured the beast would be tethered while she fought it off with a whip, during one of the 1985 movie’s most infamous scenes.Decades later the
Producer/director GEOFFREY GILMORE will be honoured in a tribute this month (Dec08), aligning his film career to veteran director SYDNEY POLLACK.Gilmore has been honoured with the American Cinematheque’s inaugural Sydney Pollack Award after serving on the non-profit organisation’s board of directors for 24 years.A spokesperson for the Cinematheque says the award honours "someone who has
Family and friends of movie mogul SYDNEY POLLACK said their farewells to the director/actor at a low-key memorial service in Los Angeles on Saturday (14Jun08).The 73-year-old lost his battle with cancer at his home on 26 May (08).Details of the private memorial service were not made public by Pollack’s family in a bid to keep
E! Online - Friends, family and colleagues held a private memorial service for the late Sydney Pollack on Saturday in Los Angeles, according to the Associated Press. No other details were given.
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Friends, family and show business colleagues gathered to remember late Oscar-winning director, producer and actor Sydney Pollack at a private memorial service, according to a person with knowledge of the service.
Reuters - Monday's death of filmmaker Sydney Pollack has thrown into limbo the many projects being developed by his production company, Mirage Enterprises.
Reuters - Hollywood filmmaker Sydney Pollack, who won a pair of Academy Awards for the epic romance "Out of Africa" and earned praise for acting stints in films including "Tootsie" and "Michael Clayton," died on Monday after a battle with cancer, his spokeswoman said. He was 73.
AP - Sydney Pollack had the rare ability to use his acting experience as adeptly behind the camera as he did in front of it.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, a Hollywood mainstay who achieved commercial success and critical acclaim


GEORGE CLOONEY has led the tributes his MICHAEL CLAYTON co-star SYDNEY POLLACK, branding the actor/director a "class act".Pollack died aged 73 on Monday (26May08), after a nine-month battle with cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles.The Oscar-winning star recently directed and starred alongside Clooney in 2007’s Michael Clayton.Clooney says, "Sydney made the world
AP - LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sydney Pollack was remembered by some of the elite actors he directed in films such as "Out of Africa," "Tootsie," and "Absence of Malice," not only for his Academy Award-winning direction, but also for his acting talents.
Filed under: R.I.P. Director Sydney Pollack -- the filmmaker who brought us everything from "Tootsie" to "Out of Africa" to "The Way We Were" -- has died at 73.Pollack's reps said that cause of death was cancer and that he died at his home in Pacific Palisades...
AFP - Sydney Pollack, a prolific director, producer and actor who made the comedy "Tootsie" and the Oscar-winning "Out of Africa," died of cancer Monday, his agent said. He was 73.
Reuters - Hollywood filmmaker Sydney Pollack, who won a pair of Academy Awards for the epic romance "Out of Africa" and earned praise for acting stints in films including "Tootsie" and "Michael Clayton," died on Monday after a battle with cancer, his spokeswoman said. He was 73.
Reuters - Hollywood filmmaker Sydney Pollack, who won a pair of Academy Awards for the epic romance "Out of Africa" and earned praise for his acting stints in films such as "Tootsie" and "Michael Clayton," died on Monday after a battle with cancer, his spokeswoman said. He was 73.
AFP - Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" and "Tootsie" and occasional producer and actor, died of cancer Monday, his agent said. He was 73.
Oscar-winning director SYDNEY POLLACK has died of cancer. He was 73.Pollack died on Monday (26May08) at his home in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles following a ten month battle with the deadly disease.Pollack won critical acclaim and two Academy Awards for his epic romance Out Of Africa starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. The 1985 movie
Reuters - Producer-director Sydney Pollack, who earned an Oscar for the epic romance "Out of Africa" and also won praise as an occasional actor, died on Monday at age 73, after a battle with cancer, The New York Times reported.
Oscar winner Sydney Pollack has slammed cinemagoers - insisting today's audiences are desperate for instant on-screen gratification and don't appreciate complex plots.


Oscar winner SYDNEY POLLACK has slammed cinemagoers - insisting today’s audiences are desperate for instant on-screen gratification and don’t appreciate complex plots.The producer and director of Out of Africa believes that audiences no longer have the patience for slowly developing story lines - but admits he is powerless to stop the quick-fix movie habit.He says,

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