Mark Rydell

Known for DirectingBorn 1929-03-23 (age 97)New York City, New York, USA

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 WikipediaRead more

Movies & web series

A Coup in Camelot

Everwood

Inside the Actors Studio

The Man in the Moon

The Wild Wild West

The Long Goodbye

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Embracing Chaos: Making The African Queen

On Golden Pond

Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

Henry Fonda: Hollywood's Quiet Hero

Mr. Novak

Family

The Fugitive

An Unfinished Life

The Cowboys

James Dean

Crime of the Century

Slattery's People

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Hollywood Ending

The Rose

Cinderella Liberty

Masters of Science Fiction

For the Boys

Gunsmoke

The River

Chicanery

I Spy

The Philco Television Playhouse

The Reivers

No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

The Fox

Crime in the Streets

Havana

The Long, Hot Summer

Reporter

Even Money

Harry and Walter Go to New York

Ben Casey

The Mike Douglas Show

Punchline

Naked City

Intersection

Navy Log

A Man Is Mostly Water

Char·ac·ter

Senior Entourage