Sydney Pollack: movies and TV shows
Sydney Pollack has 194 credits in the archive: 155 films and 39 TV series, from 1944 to 2025. Highest rated: The Sopranos (8.7/10).
Career timeline
1944 – 2025 · busiest year: 2006 (10 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | John Candy: I Like Me | Self - Director (archive footage) | Film | 7.8 | 91 |
| 2020 | Citizen Jane Fonda | Film | 7.8 | 86 | |
| 2020 | Babenco: Tell Me When I Die | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 86 |
| 2018 | Amazing Grace | Self - Director (archive footage) (uncredited) | Film | 7.2 | 84 |
| 2018 | Amazing Grace | Film | 7.2 | 84 | |
| 2014 | The Story of The Swimmer | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 80 |
| 2014 | Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles | Self - Filmmaker (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 80 |
| 2012 | Silver Linings Playbook | Film | 7.2 | 78 | |
| 2012 | Char·ac·ter | Self | Film | 4.0 | 78 |
| 2011 | Margaret | Film | 6.4 | 77 | |
| 2009 | Adapting Austen | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2009 | A Very Quiet Man | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2009 | Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood | Self | Film | — | 75 |
| 2008 | The Reader | Film | 7.5 | 74 | |
| 2008 | Made of Honor | Thomas Sr. | Film | 6.5 | 74 |
| 2008 | Leatherheads | Film | 5.9 | 74 | |
| 2008 | Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence | Self | TV | 7.5 | 74 |
| 2008 | Recount | Film | 6.8 | 74 | |
| 2008 | A Better Man: The Making of 'Tootsie' | Self | Film | 6.0 | 74 |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Marty Bach | Film | 6.8 | 73 |
| 2007 | Michael Clayton | Film | 6.8 | 73 | |
| 2007 | James Taylor | One Man Band | Film | — | 73 | |
| 2007 | The Visions of Stanley Kubrick | Self | Film | 6.9 | 73 |
| 2007 | View from the Overlook: Crafting 'The Shining' | Self | Film | 7.4 | 73 |
| 2007 | Great Bolshy Yarblockos!: Making 'A Clockwork Orange' | Self | Film | 6.1 | 73 |
| 2007 | Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 | Self | Film | 6.2 | 73 |
| 2007 | Lost Kubrick: The Unfinished Films of Stanley Kubrick | Self | Film | 6.9 | 73 |
| 2007 | Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 | Self | Film | 6.0 | 73 |
| 2006 | Filmmakers in Action | Self | Film | 7.2 | 72 |
| 2006 | Breaking and Entering | Film | 6.1 | 72 | |
| 2006 | Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light | Self | Film | 7.1 | 72 |
| 2006 | Avenue Montaigne | Brian Sobinski | Film | 6.1 | 72 |
| 2006 | Catch a Fire | Film | 6.2 | 72 | |
| 2006 | Sketches of Frank Gehry | Self | Film | 6.9 | 72 |
| 2006 | Sketches of Frank Gehry | Film | 6.9 | 72 | |
| 2006 | Sketches of Frank Gehry | Film | 6.9 | 72 | |
| 2006 | Sketches of Frank Gehry | Film | 6.9 | 72 | |
| 2006 | Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters | Self | Film | 6.5 | 72 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Jay Pettigrew (uncredited) | Film | 6.3 | 71 |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Film | 6.3 | 71 | |
| 2005 | The Interpreter | Film | 6.3 | 71 | |
| 2005 | Forty Shades of Blue | Film | 4.5 | 71 | |
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self | Film | 6.8 | 71 |
| 2005 | The Last Mogul | Self | Film | 5.5 | 71 |
| 2005 | One Six Right | Self | Film | 8.0 | 71 |
| 2005 | The Art of Imagination: A Tribute to Oz | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.3 | 71 |
| 2004 | Entourage | Sydney Pollack | TV | 7.4 | 70 |
| 2004 | Barbra Streisand: The Concert - Live at the MGM Grand | Self | Film | 8.1 | 70 |
| 2004 | Something About Sydney Pollack | Self | Film | 8.0 | 70 |
| 2004 | A Dying Breed: The Making of 'The Leopard' | Self | Film | 9.0 | 70 |
| 2004 | In Free Fall - Tom Tykwer and the Cinema | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 2004 | Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz | Self | Film | 9.0 | 70 |
| 2003 | Cold Mountain | Film | 6.9 | 69 | |
| 2003 | A Decade Under the Influence | Self | Film | 7.9 | 69 |
| 2003 | More About the Condor | Self | Film | 7.0 | 69 |
| 2003 | In the Name of Love | Film | 10.0 | 69 | |
| 2003 | Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin | Narrator | Film | 6.9 | 69 |
| 2002 | Changing Lanes | Stephen Delano | Film | 6.3 | 68 |
| 2002 | The Quiet American | Film | 6.6 | 68 | |
| 2002 | Heaven | Film | 6.5 | 68 | |
| 2002 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller | Narrator (voice) | Film | 5.8 | 68 |
| 2002 | AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions: America's Greatest Love Stories | Self | Film | 7.7 | 68 |
| 2001 | Iris | Film | 6.4 | 67 | |
| 2001 | The Majestic | Studio Executive (voice) | Film | 6.8 | 67 |
| 2001 | Birthday Girl | Film | 5.9 | 67 | |
| 2001 | Blow Dry | Film | 5.9 | 67 | |
| 2001 | Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures | Self | Film | 7.4 | 67 |
| 2001 | AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Barbra Streisand | self | Film | 9.0 | 67 |
| 2001 | Nobody's Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot | Self | Film | 7.0 | 67 |
| 2001 | Dino De Laurentiis: The Last Movie Mogul | Self | Film | 6.3 | 67 |
| 2001 | The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" | Self | Film | 6.0 | 67 |
| 2000 | A Song of Africa | Self | Film | 8.5 | 66 |
| 2000 | Up at the Villa | Film | 5.3 | 66 | |
| 2000 | Inside 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' | Self | Film | 6.2 | 66 |
| 2000 | Lost Angeles - Eine Stadt zwischen Traum und Trauma | Self | Film | 8.0 | 66 |
| 1999 | The Sopranos | Warren Feldman | TV | 8.7 | 65 |
| 1999 | Eyes Wide Shut | Victor Ziegler | Film | 7.5 | 65 |
| 1999 | The Talented Mr. Ripley | Film | 7.2 | 65 | |
| 1999 | The Directors | Self | TV | 6.1 | 65 |
| 1999 | Random Hearts | Carl Broman | Film | 5.6 | 65 |
| 1999 | Random Hearts | Film | 5.6 | 65 | |
| 1999 | Random Hearts | Film | 5.6 | 65 | |
| 1999 | The Last Movie: Stanley Kubrick and 'Eyes Wide Shut' | Self | Film | 7.7 | 65 |
| 1999 | The Way We Were: Looking Back | Self | Film | 9.2 | 65 |
| 1998 | Will & Grace | George Truman | TV | 6.9 | 64 |
| 1998 | Sliding Doors | Film | 6.6 | 64 | |
| 1998 | A Civil Action | Al Eustis | Film | 6.5 | 64 |
| 1998 | Poodle Springs | Film | 5.5 | 64 | |
| 1998 | Independent's Day | Self | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 1997 | King of the Hill | Grant Trimble (voice) | TV | 7.4 | 63 |
| 1997 | Just Shoot Me! | Sydney Pollack | TV | 6.6 | 63 |
| 1997 | The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson | Self | Film | 8.0 | 63 |
| 1996 | Love in Hollywood | Self | Film | 10.0 | 62 |
| 1996 | Burt Lancaster: Daring to Reach | Self | Film | 7.7 | 62 |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Film | 7.4 | 61 | |
| 1995 | Sabrina | Film | 6.2 | 61 | |
| 1995 | Sabrina | Film | 6.2 | 61 | |
| 1995 | Red Wind | Film | — | 61 | |
| 1994 | American Cinema | Self | TV | 8.3 | 60 |
| 1994 | Inside the Actors Studio | Self | TV | 7.6 | 60 |
| 1993 | Frasier | Holden Thorpe (voice) | TV | 7.7 | 59 |
| 1993 | Fallen Angels | TV | 6.6 | 59 | |
| 1993 | The Firm | Film | 6.7 | 59 | |
| 1993 | The Firm | Film | 6.7 | 59 | |
| 1993 | Searching for Bobby Fischer | Film | 7.1 | 59 | |
| 1993 | Flesh and Bone | Film | 6.0 | 59 | |
| 1993 | Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O | Self | Film | 8.0 | 59 |
| 1992 | Mad About You | Dr. Sydney Warren | TV | 6.7 | 58 |
| 1992 | Death Becomes Her | Hospital Doctor (uncredited) | Film | 6.8 | 58 |
| 1992 | The Player | Dick Mellen | Film | 7.2 | 58 |
| 1992 | Husbands and Wives | Jack | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1992 | Leaving Normal | Film | 6.0 | 58 | |
| 1992 | A Private Matter | Film | 5.5 | 58 | |
| 1991 | Pebble Mill | Self | TV | 4.1 | 57 |
| 1991 | Dead Again | Film | 6.4 | 57 | |
| 1991 | King Ralph | Film | 5.4 | 57 | |
| 1991 | Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star | Self | Film | 7.5 | 57 |
| 1990 | Presumed Innocent | Film | 6.8 | 56 | |
| 1990 | White Palace | Film | 6.5 | 56 | |
| 1990 | Havana | Film | 5.8 | 56 | |
| 1990 | Havana | Film | 5.8 | 56 | |
| 1990 | Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Self | Film | — | 56 |
| 1990 | Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Film | — | 56 | |
| 1990 | Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret | Film | — | 56 | |
| 1990 | Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack: The Men and Their Movies | Self | Film | — | 56 |
| 1990 | Sanford Meisner Master Class | Film | — | 56 | |
| 1989 | The Fabulous Baker Boys | Film | 6.6 | 55 | |
| 1989 | Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre | Self (voice) | Film | — | 55 |
| 1988 | Bright Lights, Big City | Film | 5.7 | 54 | |
| 1988 | Hello Actors Studio | Self | Film | 6.7 | 54 |
| 1988 | A Tiger's Tale | Film | 4.4 | 54 | |
| 1986 | Nine 1/2 Weeks | Film | 6.1 | 52 | |
| 1986 | Barbra Streisand: One Voice | Self - Audience Member (uncredited) | Film | 7.6 | 52 |
| 1986 | Putting It Together: The Making of the Broadway Album | Self | Film | 9.0 | 52 |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Film | 7.2 | 51 | |
| 1985 | Out of Africa | Film | 7.2 | 51 | |
| 1984 | Songwriter | Film | 5.5 | 50 | |
| 1982 | Tootsie | George Fields | Film | 7.2 | 48 |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Film | 7.2 | 48 | |
| 1982 | Tootsie | Film | 7.2 | 48 | |
| 1982 | Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady | Film | 6.0 | 48 | |
| 1982 | The Making of 'Tootsie' | Self | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 1981 | Absence of Malice | Film | 6.6 | 47 | |
| 1981 | Absence of Malice | Film | 6.6 | 47 | |
| 1980 | Honeysuckle Rose | Film | 5.4 | 46 | |
| 1979 | The Electric Horseman | Man Who Makes Pass at Alice (uncredited) | Film | 6.1 | 45 |
| 1979 | The Electric Horseman | Film | 6.1 | 45 | |
| 1977 | Bobby Deerfield | Film | 5.8 | 43 | |
| 1977 | Bobby Deerfield | Film | 5.8 | 43 | |
| 1975 | Les Rendez-vous du dimanche | Self | TV | 6.0 | 41 |
| 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | Film | 7.3 | 41 | |
| 1975 | Three Days of the Condor | Film | 7.3 | 41 | |
| 1974 | The Yakuza | Film | 7.1 | 40 | |
| 1974 | The Yakuza | Film | 7.1 | 40 | |
| 1973 | The Way We Were | Film | 7.0 | 39 | |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies: Howard Hawks | Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.8 | 39 |
| 1973 | The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor | Self - Narrator (voice) | Film | 6.5 | 39 |
| 1972 | Le Grand Échiquier | Self | TV | 8.0 | 38 |
| 1972 | Jeremiah Johnson | Film | 7.3 | 38 | |
| 1971 | Great Performances | Self | TV | 6.1 | 37 |
| 1969 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | Film | 7.6 | 35 | |
| 1969 | Castle Keep | Film | 5.7 | 35 | |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 34 |
| 1968 | The Scalphunters | Film | 6.4 | 34 | |
| 1968 | The Swimmer | Film | 7.3 | 34 | |
| 1966 | This Property Is Condemned | Film | 6.5 | 32 | |
| 1965 | The Slender Thread | Film | 7.1 | 31 | |
| 1964 | Slattery's People | TV | 7.0 | 30 | |
| 1963 | The Fugitive | TV | 7.3 | 29 | |
| 1963 | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | TV | 5.9 | 29 | |
| 1963 | Arrest and Trial | TV | 8.3 | 29 | |
| 1963 | Breaking Point | TV | 7.4 | 29 | |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | TV | 7.8 | 28 | |
| 1962 | War Hunt | Sgt. Owen Van Horn | Film | 6.6 | 28 |
| 1961 | Ben Casey | TV | 5.9 | 27 | |
| 1961 | The Defenders | TV | 6.3 | 27 | |
| 1961 | Cain's Hundred | TV | 5.3 | 27 | |
| 1961 | The New Breed | Austin Rogers | TV | 7.7 | 27 |
| 1961 | The New Breed | Bert Masters | TV | 7.7 | 27 |
| 1961 | Target: The Corruptors! | TV | 5.7 | 27 | |
| 1961 | Frontier Circus | TV | 5.3 | 27 | |
| 1961 | The Young Savages | Film | 6.5 | 27 | |
| 1960 | The Tall Man | TV | 6.9 | 26 | |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Arthur Willis | TV | 8.5 | 25 |
| 1959 | Startime | Harry | TV | 6.8 | 25 |
| 1959 | Startime | TV | 6.8 | 25 | |
| 1959 | The Turn of the Screw | Film | 7.0 | 25 | |
| 1959 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | Andres | Film | — | 25 |
| 1957 | Have Gun, Will Travel | Joe Culp | TV | 7.3 | 23 |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 | Andres | TV | 7.6 | 22 |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Bernie Samuelson | TV | 7.8 | 21 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 10 |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Nominee / Nominee | TV | 7.1 | 10 |
| Now Is Tomorrow | Capt. Stein | Film | 7.5 | — |