Rydell, Mark Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Geraldine Page: Stages of a Dream

  2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Chicanery

  2014, role: actor , character name: Jack Sobel
• Play in Full Screen Char·ac·ter

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Good Men

  2011, role: actor , character name: Marcus
• Play in Full Screen Door to Door

  2009, role: actor , character name: Milton
• Play in Full Screen Remembering Nigel

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon

  2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Cowboys: Together Again

  2007, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Even Money

  2006, role: actor , character name: Ivan
• Play in Full Screen Even Money

  2006, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Even Money

  2006, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Needs of Kim Stanley

  2005, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen An Unfinished Life

  2005, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Reflections on Golden Pond

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Woman of Substance: Katharine Hepburn Remembered

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The 1970s

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Hollywood Ending

  2002, role: actor , character name: Al
• Play in Full Screen James Dean

  2001, role: actor , character name: Jack Warner
• Play in Full Screen James Dean

  2001, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen James Dean

  2001, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Man Is Mostly Water

  2000, role: actor , character name: Distributor
• Play in Full Screen Lesley Ann Warren: A Cinderella Story

  2000, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Steve McQueen: The King of Cool

  1998, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Crime of the Century

  1996, role: director
• Play in Full Screen A Century of Cinema

  1994, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Intersection

  1994, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Intersection

  1994, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen McBride and Groom

  1993, role: director
• Play in Full Screen For the Boys

  1991, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Man in the Moon

  1991, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Naked Hollywood

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen For the Boys

  1991, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Havana

  1990, role: actor , character name: Meyer Lansky
• Play in Full Screen Punchline

  1988, role: actor , character name: Romeo
• Play in Full Screen The 41st Annual Golden Globe Awards

  1984, role: actor , character name: Himself - Presenter: Best Director
• Play in Full Screen The River

  1984, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The 54th Annual Academy Awards

  1982, role: actor , character name: Himself - Nominee: Best Director
• Play in Full Screen On Golden Pond

  1981, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Rose

  1979, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Many Classic Moments

  1978, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Harry and Walter Go to New York

  1976, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Cinderella Liberty

  1973, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Long Goodbye

  1973, role: actor , character name: Marty Augustine
• Play in Full Screen Cinderella Liberty

  1973, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Breaking of Boys and the Making of Men in 'The Cowboys'

  1972, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Cowboys

  1972, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Cowboys

  1972, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Reivers

  1969, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Fox

  1967, role: director

Famous quotes by Mark Rydell:

"It's enough to say he was in the movie business for 16 months and here we are, talking about him 46 years later, ... That's a testimonial to the impact that he had, the power of his personality and his talent, which is indisputable."

"The picture is not a documentary, ... It's a drama that has to be crafted. Reality is not art. You have to make choices when you're trying to make something work. And the choices we make I think are accurate. There aren't any lies in it. There are assumptions made that are critical and necessary."

"I consider his performance to be a miracle, ... I think he's one of the most talented people I've ever met. You know, he's 22 years old. ... He just transformed himself. At times it seemed eerie. It was like cloning or channeling James Dean. There were moments where I thought, 'My God, this is really bizarre.'"

"I've always felt badly that Jimmy wasn't treated with the kind of respect that I thought he deserved, ... Having known him and known how committed and determined he was as an artist and how tortured he was as a human being, and knowing the agonies of his childhood, I felt that this was a good chance to make an honorable psychological portrait of him."

"I remember thinking at that moment that he was not long for this world. Anybody who could do that had such a reckless personality that sooner or later it was going to catch up with him,"

"For 30 years he was the conscience of Hollywood,"

"So he was really a tortured fellow, ... He felt very lonely during that period. But he felt that it helped him. And it did."

"He was talking to me about bull-fighting, which was one of his passions,"

"There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized."

"Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege."

"He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him."

"It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses."

"It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at."

"There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry."

"I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack."

"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful."

"It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance."

"No one turns down a film with Woody; it's something everyone wants in their career as an important moment. He's such a comedic genius, without question, so I was thrilled."

"Well you know, Woody doesn't rehearse, as opposed to my own method of directing where I really work with actors around a round table for weeks, examining the values of the material, so his technique is very different."

"It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites."