Gilbert Cates
Nacimiento : 1934-06-06, New York City, New York, USA
Muerte : 2011-10-31
Historia
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.
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Director
A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident.
Mr. Walsh
This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives.
Director
Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.
Director
Un policía es asesinado el día de Nochebuena en acto de servicio. Cuando se inicia la investigación, el Departamento recibe la llamada de un agente de Nuevo México afirmando que tiene un sospechoso.
Executive Producer
A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality.
Executive Producer
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
Director
A husband tries to keep his comatose wife alive by allowing doctors to terminate her pregnancy. Hearing about this, anti-abortion protesters start a legal campaign to gain legal custody of the fetus.
Director
Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood.
Director
Roger Dollison es un oficial de policía que junto con su esposa Kendra está viviendo el sueño americano. La pareja tiene dos hijos, una hermosa casa y un perro llamado Rex. Sin embargo, sus vidas cambiarán radicalmente después de que el compañero de clase de uno de los niños sufra abusos sexuales en una prestiogiosa guardería del vecindario.
Director
A widow thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, a physician of considerable means. The only thing standing in the way of rekindling this first love is the presence of his very attractive, very together 37-year-old girlfriend.
Director
A Massachusetts nurse (Patty Duke) is accused of exercising Fatal Judgment in this made-for-TV movie. While tending a seriously ill cancer patient, the nurse administered a generous dose of morphine. The patient died, which is why the woman is now on trial for murder.
Director
Mara es la esposa que quiere más. Jake, el amante del que ella quiere más. Donny, el marido al que la guerra casi destruyó. Reed, el extraño que responde a las plegarias más oscuras de todos. Mara y Donny son la pareja ideal, joven, ricos y atractivos. Sólo las pesadillas horribles de Vietnam que rondan a Donny hacen que su vida no sea perfecta.
Director
A social worker starts working with a shy, withdrawn 6 year old whom she believes is the victim of sexual abuse.
Director
Los padres de Jeff Lynn están orgullosos de su hijo, considerándole un chico modelo. Sus opiniones cambian radicalmente cuando el muchacho asume su homosexualidad y decide comunicar sus sentimientos a sus progenitores. Lejos de comprenderlo, le proponen que se ponga en manos de un doctor para que le curen su "enfermedad".
Director
While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights.
Director
A spirited young girl disobeys her parents and runs off to the wood for the afternoon where she rudely invades the home of a family of bears, taking advantage of all its comforts and thoughtlessly wrecking things. When caught, she learns important lessons about truthfulness and respecting others' rights to privacy.
Director
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
Director
A sinister witch steals the baby of a simple candlemaker and his wife and names her Rapunzel. Determined to keep Rapunzel for herself, the witch locks her up in a tall tower all alone, with no way in or out except by climbing her long, braided hair. Wonders and dangers occur when the girl meets a handsome prince.
Supervising Producer
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news.
Director
An aging country singer becomes irritated with the success of a popular young country singer. However, she is not yet ready to become yesterday's news.
Director
Dios se aparece ante Tracy Richards, de 11 años, para pedirle ayuda para difundir su palabra e influencia sobre el mundo, lo que sugiere el eslogan 'Piensa en Dios'. Naturalmente, los padres divorciados de Tracy piensan que Tracy está loca y conspiran para detener su misión 'enviada del cielo' de difundir la palabra de Dios.
Executive Producer
Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces. Seemingly surrounded by people with domestic problems, Jeff and Mari begin to question their own relationship.
Director
Jeff and Mari Thompson are contently married, but they are stunned to see many of their friends and neighbors going through separations and divorces. Seemingly surrounded by people with domestic problems, Jeff and Mari begin to question their own relationship.
Executive Producer
Charled Dicken's tale A Christmas Carol takes a contemporary jolt in this original musical set in modern-day Tennessee. Cyrus Flint is a mean old banker whose one and only concern is the welfare of Flint City Bank. Dennis and Laura Pritchett are two parents struggling to make enough money to pay for an operation their son needs. Flint is organizing a songwriting and singing contest with a $2000 first prize to promote his bank.
Director
A rich student's fiancee has her face destroyed by a car accident, and refuses to return to him fearing the loss of his love.
Executive Producer
Ranch hand Stubby Pringle journeys to a Christmas dance, hoping to find his true love, and learns a valuable lesson about the spirit of the holiday along the way.
Director
Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946.
Producer
Un hombre, sale del hospital psiquiátrico en el que se encontraba y trata de localizar a su familia.
Director
Un hombre, sale del hospital psiquiátrico en el que se encontraba y trata de localizar a su familia.
Producer
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.
Director
Adaptation of Arthur Miller's semi-autobiographical play about Quentin, a Jewish intellectual from New York who must reexamine his life and his troubled relationship with Holga.
Director
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
Producer
Rita es una neoyorquina de mediana edad que está sufriendo una crisis emocional. No tiene buenas relaciones con sus hijos, pero con su madre tampoco se lleva muy bien...
Director
Rita es una neoyorquina de mediana edad que está sufriendo una crisis emocional. No tiene buenas relaciones con sus hijos, pero con su madre tampoco se lleva muy bien...
Director
An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.
Producer
Gene Garrison es un profesor universitario de 40 años que quiere alejarse de sus padres, ya mayores, sobre todo de su padre Tom, al que nunca ha logrado complacer. Gene tiene intención de casarse con una médico y mudarse a California, pero su madre muere. En el funeral aparece Alice, la hija a la que Tom repudió hace mucho tiempo, y le dice a Tom que debe romper los lazos que le unen a su padre. Pero Tom no es capaz de dejar a su padre en una residencia de ancianos y suspende sus planes.
Director
Gene Garrison es un profesor universitario de 40 años que quiere alejarse de sus padres, ya mayores, sobre todo de su padre Tom, al que nunca ha logrado complacer. Gene tiene intención de casarse con una médico y mudarse a California, pero su madre muere. En el funeral aparece Alice, la hija a la que Tom repudió hace mucho tiempo, y le dice a Tom que debe romper los lazos que le unen a su padre. Pero Tom no es capaz de dejar a su padre en una residencia de ancianos y suspende sus planes.
Producer
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La Mara; Tarzan, Sahib, and their elephant; Marco's sword-balancing act; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.
Director
While writing a book on the circus, author John Shawcross reflects upon the great acts he has seen over the years and the mystique of circus people. He recalls the solo trapeze act of La Mara; Tarzan, Sahib, and their elephant; Marco's sword-balancing act; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.
