Acting credits
3
Early stage
Smaller on-screen catalog so far.
Actor
Gilbert Cates
Directing
Career Snapshot
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TMDB popularity
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Movies: 34Series: 4Crew 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
Other jobs
Director (27)Executive Producer (6)Producer (2)
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.
Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Gilbert Cates.
4.7
A Death in the Family
Director
2002 Movie
5.0
$pent
as Mr. Walsh
1999 Movie
6.3
Inside the Golden Statue
as Self
1998 Movie
5.0
Innocent Victims
Director
1996 Movie
5.0
Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
Director
1994 Movie
6.2
In My Daughter's Name
Executive Producer
1992 Movie
Absolute Strangers
Executive Producer
1991 Movie
4.5
Call Me Anna
Director
1990 Movie
6.7
Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Director
1989 Movie
10.0
My First Love
Director
1988 Movie
4.8
Backfire
Director
1988 Movie
5.0
Child's Cry
Director
1986 Movie
5.9
Consenting Adult
Director
1985 Movie
2.0
Burning Rage
Director
1984 Movie
5.0
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Director
1984 Movie
Hobson's Choice
Director
1983 Movie
5.4
Rapunzel
Director
1983 Movie
6.0
Country Gold
Director
1982 Movie
3.0
The Kid From Nowhere
Producer
1982 Movie
5.3
Oh, God! Book II
Director
1980 Movie
4.2
The Last Married Couple in America
Director
1980 Movie
5.5
Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol
Executive Producer
1979 Movie
5.9
The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree
Executive Producer
1979 Movie
6.4
The Promise
Director
1979 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Gilbert Cates.
