Mark Rydell was born on Mortimer H Rydell; March 23,1929 and is an American film director, producer, and actor.
21 Facts About Mark Rydell
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Mark Rydell has directed several Academy Award-nominated films including The Fox, The Reivers, Cinderella Liberty, The Rose, and The River.
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Mark Rydell was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond.
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Mark Rydell said he left music because of the proliferation of drugs among the musicians: "Heroin was the drug of choice," he said.
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Mark Rydell studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.
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In 1962, Rydell declined to sign another long-term contract at ATWT, and producers had his character die in a car crash.
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Mark Rydell moved into directing television and soon became very successful.
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Mark Rydell did episodes of Mr Novak, Ben Casey, The Reporter, Slattery's People, I Spy, The Wild Wild West, The Long, Hot Summer, and Gunsmoke.
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Mark Rydell's first feature as director was The Fox which was a box-office hit, in part due to its then-rare lesbian content.
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Mark Rydell signed a multi picture contract with the film's producer Raymond Stross but disliked working with him and says he ended up paying out four times his fee for the picture to get out of the contract.
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Mark Rydell made a romantic comedy, Cinderella Liberty, with James Caan and Marsha Mason.
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Mark Rydell directed The Rose, starring Bette Midler, which was a huge hit.
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Mark Rydell was going to make a film based on the play Nuts but instead did The River, with Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek.
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Mark Rydell made the TV movie McBride and Groom and the feature Intersection.
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Mark Rydell directed the TV movies Crime of the Century, which starred Isabella Rossellini and Stephen Rea, and James Dean, which earned actor James Franco a Golden Globe award.
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Mark Rydell was credited as executive producer on An Unfinished Life.
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Mark Rydell's last credit to date was an episode of Masters of Science Fiction, "A Clean Escape".
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In 2010, Mark Rydell joined the Advisory Board of Openfilm, an online video sharing site created to help aspiring independent filmmakers.
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Mark Rydell executive produced the documentary A Coup in Camelot.
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Mortimer H Rydell was born on March 23,1929, to a Jewish family in New York City.
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Mark Rydell had another son, Alexander, from his second marriage to documentary producer Esther Mark Rydell.