Mark Rydell

Directing·Mar 23, 1929·New York City, New York, USA

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Mark Rydell (born March 23, 1935 , in New York City) is an American actor, film director and producer. He has directed many Academy Award-nominated films including The Fox (1967), The Reivers (1969), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979), The River (1984) and For the Boys (1991). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond (1981). Rydell's initial training was in music. As a youth, he wanted to be a conductor. He began his career as an actor and first became known for his role as Walt Johnson on The Edge of Night and as Jeff Baker on As the World Turns, which he played from 1956 to 1962. When he would not sign a long-term contract to remain on ATWT the producers had his character die in a car crash. He won plaudits for his role of violent Jewish mob kingpin Marty Augustine in Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye (1973). His most recent significant film role was in Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending (2002). As a director, Rydell's credits include The Reivers (1969), The Cowboys (1972), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979), On Golden Pond (1981), for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best Director, The River (1984), For the Boys (1991), and Intersection (1994). He directed the TV movie The Crime of the Century (1996), which starred Isabella Rossellini and Stephen Rea. In 2006, Rydell directed the movie Even Money. Rydell was also the director of the TV bio-pic James Dean (2001), which earned actor James Franco a Golden Globe award. Rydell also acted in the movie, playing Jack L. Warner (head of Warner Bros). In 2009, Rydell, working with actor Martin Landau and screenwriter/playwright Lyle Kessler, produced an education seminar, The Total Picture Seminar. It is a two-day event covering the disciplines of acting, directing, and writing for film. The three have worked together as a team for many decades at The Actors Studio teaching and coaching professional actors, writers, and directors. In 2010, Rydell joined the Advisory Board of Openfilm, an online video sharing site created to help aspiring independent filmmakers. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Rydell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Film	Credit
Senior Entourage2021 · Mark	Mark
Chicanery2017 · Jack Sobel	Jack Sobel
Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond2016 · Self	Self
Char·ac·ter2012 · Self	Self
Good Men2011 · Marcus	Marcus
Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen2010 · Self	Self
No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos2009 · Self	Self
TThe Cowboys: Together Again2007 · Himself	Himself
Even Money2007 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
James Dean: Sense Memories2005 · Self	Self
Hollywood Ending2002 · Al	Al
James Dean2001 · Jack Warner, Director	Jack Warner, Director
A Man Is Mostly Water2000 · Distributor	Distributor
Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero1997 · Self	Self
Crime of the Century1996 · Director	Director
Intersection1994 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
For the Boys1991 · Director	Director
The Man in the Moon1991 · Producer	Producer
Havana1990 · Meyer Lansky	Meyer Lansky
SSanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret1990 · Self	Self
Punchline1988 · Romeo	Romeo
The Thrill Can Kill1987 · Director	Director
The River1984 · Director	Director
On Golden Pond1981 · Director	Director
The Rose1979 · Director	Director
Harry and Walter Go to New York1976 · Director	Director
Cinderella Liberty1973 · Gutteral Mischief (as Marty Augustine), Director, Producer	Gutteral Mischief (as Marty Augustine), Director, Producer
The Long Goodbye1973 · Marty Augustine	Marty Augustine
TThe Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men in 'The Cowboys'1972 · Actor	Actor
The Cowboys1972 · Director, Producer	Director, Producer
The Reivers1969 · Director	Director
The Fox1967 · Director	Director
Crime in the Streets1956 · Lou Macklin	Lou Macklin