Gilbert Cates

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1934-06-06

Deathday 2011-10-31 (77 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As Gilbert Lewis Katz, Alan Smithee, Gil Cates

Gilbert Cates

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

Director

2002
1996
Innocent Victims

as Director

1991
Absolute Strangers

as Director

1990
Call Me Anna

as Director

1988
Fatal Judgement

as Director

1988
Backfire

as Director

1988
My First Love

as Director

1986
Child's Cry

as Director

1985
Consenting Adult

as Director

1985
The Twilight Zone

as Director

1984
Burning Rage

as Director

1983
Hobson's Choice

as Director

1983
Rapunzel

as Director

1982
Country Gold

as Director

1982
1980
Oh, God! Book II

as Director

1979
The Promise

as Director

1976
Dragonfly

as Director

1974
After the Fall

as Director

1973
The Affair

as Director

1967

Producer

2002
1992
In My Daughter's Name

as Executive Producer

1991
Absolute Strangers

as Executive Producer

1986
Child's Cry

as Producer

1982
Country Gold

as Supervising Producer

1982
1980
1979
1979
1978
Stubby Pringle's Christmas

as Executive Producer

1977
Have I Got a Christmas for You

as Executive Producer

1976
Dragonfly

as Producer

1974
After the Fall

as Producer

1967
1953
The Oscars

as Producer

Actor

2004
Kulturplatz

as Self

2000
$pent

as Mr. Walsh