US film director Sydney Pollack has died of cancer · 2008-05-27 16:12
Sydney Pollack was 73.
He won producing and directing Oscars for the epic romance Out of Africa, starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep, in 1985.
He also directed Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie, plus The Way We Were, in which Redford partnered Barbra Streisand.
He died on Monday, surrounded by family members, at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles. He had been diagnosed with cancer 10 months ago, BBC informs.
“Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better,” said George Clooney, on whose latest film, Leatherheads, Pollack was executive producer.
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