US director Sydney Pollack died on Monday at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. It had been 10 months since he had been diagnosed with cancer.
He is best remembered by winning, producing and directing Oscars in 1985 for ’Out of Africa’, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep.
Other well known movies he directed were ‘Tootsie’ with Dustin Hoffman and ’The Way We Were’, in which Redford partnered Barbra Streisand.
George Clooney, (who starred in ’leatherheads’, which Pollack was the executive producer) had this to say:-
“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. He’ll be missed terribly.”