Gilbert Cates

Known for DirectingBorn 1934-06-06Died 2011-10-31New York City, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

My First Love

Faerie Tale Theatre

Country Gold

After the Fall

The Twilight Zone

Child's Cry

Dragonfly

Innocent Victims

In My Daughter's Name

Fatal Judgement

Hobson's Choice

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol

Stubby Pringle's Christmas

The Oscars

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Inside the Golden Statue

To All My Friends on Shore

I Never Sang for My Father

$pent

The Promise

The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree

Kulturplatz

Consenting Adult

Rapunzel

A Death in the Family

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

The Kid From Nowhere

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

Oh, God! Book II

Call Me Anna

Burning Rage

Backfire

Rings Around the World

The Last Married Couple in America

The Affair

Absolute Strangers

Have I Got a Christmas for You