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Gilbert Cates

Gilbert Cates

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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Movies Made By Gilbert Cates (33)

A Death in the Family (2002)

A young wife's religious faith is shaken when her husband dies in a car accident. ...

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Innocent Victims (1996)

Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story. ...

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Confessions: Two Faces of Evil (1994)

Two men being questioned in a police station on Christmas Eve both confess to the murder of a cop. With both stories seeming plausible, an investigator is called in to determine which suspect is telling the truth - and why the other one is lying. Crime dra ...

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In My Daughter's Name (1992)

A mother takes the law into her own hands after her daughter's murderer is acquitted on a technicality. ...

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Absolute Strangers (1991)

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. ...

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Call Me Anna (1990)

Patty Duke portrays herself in this made-for-tv biopic about her struggles as a child star growing into adulthood. ...

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Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989)

Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife, Kendra, are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is disco ...

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My First Love (1988)

Widow Jean Miller thinks she's ready for a new romance with her high school sweetheart, Sam Morrissey, 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 ...

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Fatal Judgement (1988)

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 ...

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Backfire (1988)

Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, ...

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Child's Cry (1986)

A social worker starts working with a shy, withdrawn 6 year old whom she believes is the victim of sexual abuse. ...

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Consenting Adult (1985)

Young and shy Jeff discovers his attraction to men. After struggling with himself he comes out to his parents. Mum eventually listens to his son and tries to understand his feelings, but his Dad would rather die — which, in the end, he really does, leavi ...

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Burning Rage (1984)

While coal fires burn beneath a depressed mining town a greedy businessman stops at nothing to buy up the mineral rights. ...

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Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1984)

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 ...

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Hobson's Choice (1983)

Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees. ...

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Rapunzel (1983)

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. Wonder ...

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Country Gold (1982)

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. ...

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The Kid From Nowhere (1982)

A single mother is overprotective of her mentally challenged son, which has made him angry and difficult, while she denies herself a social life. Things change for the better when the boy gains self-esteem training for the Special Olympics, and his mother ...

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Oh, God! Book II (1980)

God appears before 11-year-old Tracy Richards to ask for her help to spread his word and influence over the world which she suggests the slogan 'Think God.' Naturaly, Tracy's divorced parents think Tracy's crazy, and plot to halt her 'heaven-sent' mission ...

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The Last Married Couple in America (1980)

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 relations ...

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Skinflint: A Country Christmas Carol (1979)

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 parent ...

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The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree (1979)

Papa Bear and the cubs search the woods for the perfect Christmas tree, but run afoul of the woodland animals who live in the trees they aim to cut down. ...

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The Promise (1979)

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. ...

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Stubby Pringle's Christmas (1978)

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. ...

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Have I Got a Christmas for You (1977)

Members of a town's Jewish community decide to substitute for their Christian friends and neighbors so they can enjoy Christmas. The good folk humorously attempt jobs they have never done before. ...

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Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye (1977)

Based on the best-selling book, this movie focuses on John F. Kennedy's first run for a congressional seat in 1946. ...

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Dragonfly (1976)

A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family. ...

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After the Fall (1974)

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. ...

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The Affair (1973)

A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love. ...

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Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973)

Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son. ...

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To All My Friends on Shore (1972)

An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia. ...

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I Never Sang for My Father (1970)

Hackman plays a New York professor who wants a change in his life, and plans to get married to his girlfriend and move to California. His mother understands his need to get away, but warns him that moving so far away could be hard on his father. Just befor ...

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Rings Around the World (1967)

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; ...

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Movies Starring Gilbert Cates (2)

$pent (1999)

This comic drama examines the relationships and addictions of a group of twenty-something friends with very dysfunctional, yet interesting lives. ...

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Inside the Golden Statue (1998)

A behind-the-scenes look at the preparations for the live broadcast of the 69th Annual Academy Awards ceremony. ...

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