Sydney Pollack Dead at 73

[Jamba]

SYDNEY POLLACK DEAD

1934-2008​

Sydney Pollack, the Academy Award-winning director of "Out of Africa" who achieved acclaim making popular, mainstream movies with A-list stars, including "The Way We Were" and "Tootsie," died Monday. He was 73. Pollack, who also was a producer and actor, died of cancer at his home in Pacific Palisades, according to Leslee Dart, his publicist and friend.

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Didn't see this one coming. ):

His directorial credits include The Firm, Sabrina, and The Interpreter, and he had produced Sense and Sensibility, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Cold Mountain, and Leatherheads to name a few.
He also acted and appeared in movies like Eyes Wide Shut and the recent Michael Clayton and television shows such as The Twilight Zone, Frasier and The Sopranos.

I'll always remember him as Will's kooky father on Will & Grace.

May he RIP. ;_;

 

[Tim Wakefield]

Pretty crazy. I never really knew too much about him until he was in the 2nd to last episode of Entourage. After that I researched him and realized he made some pretty damn good movies like you mentioned above. R.I.P.

 

[Morwen]

Yeah, diagnosed with cancer 9 months ago. It's a damn shame.