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Gilbert Cates

 
Director: Gilbert Cates
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  • Born: Jun 06, 1934 in New York City, New York
  • Occupation: Director, Actor
  • Active: '70s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
  • Career Highlights: I Never Sang for My Father, Call Me Anna, Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
  • First Major Screen Credit: Rings Around the World (1967)

Biography

Gilbert Cates was a producer and director of television game shows by the late 1950s, and in the '60s, he produced Broadway plays. He debuted as a director in 1970, adapting one of those plays, the domestic drama I Never Sang for My Father. Cates has worked chiefly in television, but has made several notable features, including Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams with Joanne Woodward and the thriller Backfire. ~ All Movie Guide
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Gilbert Cates
Born June 6, 1934
New York City

Gilbert “Gil” Cates (born June 6, 1934) is an American film director and television producer. He is probably best known for producing the annual Academy Award shows. In September 2007, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that he would be producing the 80th Academy Awards, his 14th time. The awards took place on Sunday February 24, 2008. Cates directed the feature films I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973).

Cates was born Gilbert Katz in New York City, the son of Nina (née Peltzman) and Nathan Katz, who was a dress manufacturer.[1] There he attended DeWitt Clinton High School.[2]

He is the uncle of noted actress Phoebe Cates.

References

  1. ^ Gilbert Cates Biography (1934-)
  2. ^ Champlin, Charles. "Another Year, Another Oscar Strategy - Movies: Gilbert Cates finds a different set of circumstances for this year's Academy Awards, his second as producer of the annual awards show.", Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1991. Accessed September 14, 2009. "He started fencing at Dewitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and, he says, you spent three months of exercise just getting in shape to fence."

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