Trained for the arts at Juilliard, Neighborhood Playhouse, and the Actor's Studio, Mark Rydell was a busy actor and musician throughout the 1950s. During this decade he played Jeff Baker, first husband of Penny Hughes (Rosemary Prinz), on the CBS TV soap opera Days of Our Lives; he abruptly left the show by means of a "fatal accident" in 1959. His movie acting debut was in the 1956 J.D. melodrama Crime in the Streets. In the early '60s, Rydell established himself as a dependable series-TV director. His first film directorial assignment was 1968's The Fox; 13 years later, he garnered an Oscar nomination for his direction of On Golden Pond (1981). In 1973, Rydell made a surprise return to acting at the request of his old friend Robert Altman, portraying a sadistic gangster boss in Altman's The Long Goodbye; he has since essayed supporting roles in Punchline (1988) and Havana (1989), the latter directed by another former actor, Sidney Pollack. In partnership with Pollack, Mark Rydell formed Sanford Productions in the mid-'80s.
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Even Money
Actor, Director, Producer |
2007 | |||
| 2007 | ||||
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An Unfinished Life
Executive Producer |
2005 | |||
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James Dean: Sense Memories
Participant |
2005 | |||
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Hollywood Ending
Actor |
2002 | |||
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A Man Is Mostly Water
Actor |
2001 | |||
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James Dean
Actor, Director, Producer |
2001 | |||
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Crime of the Century
Director |
1996 | |||
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Intersection
Director, Producer |
1994 | |||
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For the Boys
Director, Producer |
1991 | |||
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The Man in the Moon
Producer |
1991 | |||
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Havana
Actor |
1990 | |||
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Punchline
Actor |
1988 | |||
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The River
Director |
1984 | |||
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On Golden Pond
Director |
1981 | |||
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The Rose
Director |
1979 | |||
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Harry and Walter Go to New York
Director |
1976 | |||
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Cinderella Liberty
Director, Producer |
1973 | |||
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The Long Goodbye
Actor |
1973 | |||
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The Cowboys
Director, Producer |
1972 | |||
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The Reivers
Director |
1969 | |||
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The Fox
Director |
1967 | |||
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The Fugitive: A Clean and Quiet Town
Director |
1966 | |||
| 1965 | ||||
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I Spy: Danny Was a Million Laughs
Director |
1965 | |||
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I Spy: The Loser
Director |
1965 | |||
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Crime in the Streets
Actor |
1956 |
