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Name | Mark Rydell |
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Birthname | Mortimer Rydell |
Birthdate | March 23, 1935 |
Birth place | New York City, New York, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor, director, producer |
Spouse | Joanne Linville (1962-1979)(divorced)Esther Rydell (1983-1986) (divorced) |
Children | Christopher Rydell and Amy Rydell and Alexander Rydell |
Mark Rydell (born March 23, 1935 , in New York City) is an American actor, film director and producer.
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). In 2006, Rydell directed the movie Even Money which starred Kim Basinger, Forest Whitaker, and Danny DeVito.
Rydell was also 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 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.
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