Mark Rydell

Mark Rydell born March 23 1935 in New York City is an American actor film director and producer He has directed many Academy Awardnominated films including The Fox 1967 The Reivers 1969 Cinderella Liberty 1973 The Rose 1979 The River 1984 and For the Boys 1991 He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond 1981 Rydells initial training was in music As a youth he wanted to be a conductor He began his career as an actor and first became known for his role as Walt Johnson on The Edge of Night and as Jeff Baker on As the World Turns which he played from 1956 to 1962 When he would not sign a longterm contract to remain on ATWT the producers had his character die in a car crash He won plaudits for his role of violent Jewish mob kingpin Marty Augustine in Robert Altmans The Long Goodbye 1973 His most recent significant film role was in Woody Allens Hollywood Ending 2002 As a director Rydells credits include The Reivers 1969 The Cowboys 1972 Cinderella Liberty 1973 The Rose 1979 On Golden Pond 1981 for which he received an Oscar nomination as Best Director The River 1984 For the Boys 1991 and Intersection 1994 He directed the TV movie The Crime of the Century 1996 which starred Isabella Rossellini and Stephen Rea In 2006 Rydell directed the movie Even Money Rydell was also the director of the TV biopic James Dean 2001 which earned actor James Franco a Golden Globe award Rydell also acted in the movie playing Jack L Warner head of Warner Bros In 2009 Rydell working with actor Martin Landau and screenwriterplaywright Lyle Kessler produced an education seminar The Total Picture Seminar It is a twoday event covering the disciplines of acting directing and writing for film The three have worked together as a team for many decades at The Actors Studio teaching and coaching professional actors writers and directors In 2010 Rydell joined the Advisory Board of Openfilm an online video sharing site created to help aspiring independent filmmakers Description above from the Wikipedia article Mark Rydell licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia