Directing

Gilbert Cates

Born 1934-06-06 · New 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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Do You Know the Muffin Man? poster
6.7

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 discovered that a classmate of Teddy's is the apparent victim of sexual abuse and molestation at the respected neighborhood daycare center. Like all other parents, the Dollisons are tormented — "we should have known, we should have seen" — but their devastation is complete when Teddy tells his own story, one he promised his abusers he would never tell.

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

1989

My First Love poster
9.5

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 39-year-old girlfriend, Claire.

My First Love

1988

The Promise poster
6.5

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.

The Promise

1979

Consenting Adult poster
6.0

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, leaving behind a mother, her son and his friend to work those things out Jeff and his Dad had never the courage to talk about.

Consenting Adult

1985

I Never Sang for My Father poster
6.7

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

I Never Sang for My Father

1970

I Never Sang for My Father poster
6.7

A man living in the towering shadow of his aging father finds it difficult to start a new chapter in his life by marrying his girlfriend and moving to California.

I Never Sang for My Father

1970

No artwork available
7.0

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.

Fatal Judgement

1988

The Last Married Couple in America poster
4.4

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.

The Last Married Couple in America

1980

Innocent Victims poster
7.0

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

Innocent Victims

1996

Backfire poster
4.8

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, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.

Backfire

1988

Rapunzel poster
5.9

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.

Rapunzel

1983

Goldilocks and the Three Bears poster
6.3

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.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

1984

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye poster
5.5

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

Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye

1977

After the Fall poster
8.0

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.

After the Fall

1974

After the Fall poster
8.0

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.

After the Fall

1974

The Affair poster
3.8

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

The Affair

1973

Oh, God! Book II poster
5.4

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 to spread God's word.

Oh, God! Book II

1980

Child's Cry poster
7.5

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

Child's Cry

1986

Child's Cry poster
7.5

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

Child's Cry

1986

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil poster
5.4

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 drama, starring James Earl Jones and Jason Bateman.

Confessions: Two Faces of Evil

1994

Absolute Strangers poster
NR

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.

Absolute Strangers

1991

Hobson's Choice poster
7.0

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

Hobson's Choice

1983

A Death in the Family poster
5.5

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

A Death in the Family

2002

A Death in the Family poster
5.5

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

A Death in the Family

2002