Sydney Pollack, who has directed movies like Out of Africa and The Way We Were, has died of cancer. He won the Academy Award for Directing for Out of Africa.

Some of his other well-known movies included Tootsie, Havana, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?< span> He also directed the recent movie The Interpreter.

He has also played in some movies - such as A Civil Action, Husbands and Wives and in his own movie The Interpreter. He has also made appearances in the TV shows The Sopranos and Just Shoot Me.

It was the movies in the 70's and 80's which are best remembered. Robert Redford starred in both Out of Africa and The Way We Were. Those movies somehow encapsulated the spirit of those times - political activism and a yearning for something pure and innocent. Those sentiments seem to have quietened in the 90's, but one senses some resurgence in recent years.

He wasn't perhaps the greatest director, but he was representative of an era.

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