As Actor
$pent
1999
5.0
Gilbert Cates
Acting
Birth Date
June 6, 1934
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Date of Death
October 31, 2011
Biography
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 a number of feature films including I Never Sang for My Father (1970) and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973), Oh, God! Book II (1980) and The Last Married Couple in America (1980). Cates was born Gilbert Katz in New York City, the son of Nina (née Peltzman) and Nathan Katz, who was a dress manufacturer. There he attended DeWitt Clinton High School. He is the uncle of noted actress Phoebe Cates and a brother of the producer and director Joseph Cates, with whom he collaborated from time to time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gilbert Cates, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Complete Filmography
As Actor
Inside the Golden Statue
1998
6.3
As Director
Innocent Victims
1996
5.0
As Director
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
1994
5.0
As Director
Call Me Anna
1990
4.5
As Director
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
1989
6.7
As Director
My First Love
1988
10.0
As Director
Backfire
1988
5.0
As Director
Child's Cry
1986
5.0
As Director
Consenting Adult
1985
6.4
As Director
Burning Rage
1984
2.0
As Director
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
1984
5.0
As Director
Rapunzel
1983
5.4
As Director
Country Gold
1982
6.0
As Director
Oh, God! Book II
1980
5.3
As Director
The Promise
1979
6.0
As Director
Dragonfly
1976
10.0
As Director
The Affair
1973
3.6
As Director
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
1973
5.6
As Director
I Never Sang for My Father
1970
6.6