Known For
Directing
Born
Jun 06, 1934
Died
Oct 31, 2011
Place of Birth
New York City, New York, USA
Credits
41 titles
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
Filmography
Kulturplatz
Self
A Death in the Family
Director
Collected Stories
Director
$pent
Mr. Walsh
Inside the Golden Statue
Self
Innocent Victims
Director
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
Director
In My Daughter's Name
Executive Producer
Absolute Strangers
Executive Producer
Call Me Anna
Director
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Director
My First Love
Director
Fatal Judgement
Director
Backfire
Director
Child's Cry
Director
The Twilight Zone
Director
Consenting Adult
Director
Burning Rage
Director
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Director
Hobson's Choice
Director
Rapunzel
Director
Country Gold
Director
Faerie Tale Theatre
Director
The Kid From Nowhere
Producer
Oh, God! Book II
Director
The Last Married Couple in America
Director
Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
Executive Producer
The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree
Executive Producer
The Promise
Director
Stubby Pringle's Christmas
Executive Producer
50 Years of Country Music
Executive Producer
Have I Got a Christmas for You
Executive Producer
Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye
Director
Dragonfly
Director
After the Fall
Director
The Affair
Director
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Director
To All My Friends on Shore
Director
I Never Sang for My Father
Director
Rings Around the World
Director
The Oscars
Producer