Director

Gilbert Cates

Directing

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Directed movies: 25Directed series: 2All crew credits: 35

TMDB ID: 119784

IMDb ID: nm0146062

Known for: Directing

Born: June 6, 1934

Died: October 31, 2011

Age: 77

Place of birth: New York City, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1953 - 2004

Years active: 52

Average TMDB rating: 6.95

Wikidata: Q921434

Also known as

Gilbert Lewis Katz • Alan Smithee • Gil Cates

Frequent jobs

Director (27)Executive Producer (6)Producer (2)

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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.

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