Sydney Pollack: 1934-2008

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Award winning film director Sydney Pollack listens to a student's question at Harvard university in Cambridge, Mass., on July 17, 1993. Unlike many other top directors of his era, Pollack was also a film and TV actor himself, and he used this unique position to forge a relationship with Hollywood's elite stars and create some of the most successful films of the 1970s and '80s.

Author: CBS News Staff

Credit: AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett