Gilbert Cates
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- June 6, 1934
- Died
- October 31, 2011 (aged 77)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
A Death in the Family
Movie · Director
Collected Stories
Movie · Director
Innocent Victims
Movie · Director
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
Movie · Director
Absolute Strangers
Movie · Director
Call Me Anna
Movie · Director
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Movie · Director
Fatal Judgement
Movie · Director
Backfire
Movie · Director
My First Love
Movie · Director
Child's Cry
Movie · Director
Consenting Adult
Movie · Director
The Twilight Zone
TV · Director · 1 ep
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Movie · Director
Burning Rage
Movie · Director
Hobson's Choice
Movie · Director
Rapunzel
Movie · Director
Country Gold
Movie · Director
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · Director · 2 eps
Oh, God! Book II
Movie · Director
The Last Married Couple in America
Movie · Director
The Promise
Movie · Director
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Movie · Director
Dragonfly
Movie · Director
After the Fall
Movie · Director
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Movie · Director
The Affair
Movie · Director
To All My Friends on Shore
Movie · Director
I Never Sang for My Father
Movie · Director
Rings Around the World
Movie · Director