Gilbert Cates

Directing

Gilbert Cates

Born — Died

1934-06-06 — 2011-10-31

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

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 DeWi…

Known for

Kulturplatz poster
6.0

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Kulturplatz

2004

The Last Married Couple in America poster
4.5

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

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

Collected Stories poster
NR

Ruth Steiner is a teacher and respected short story writer. Her student and protégée is Lisa Morrison. Over the course of six years, Lisa journeys from insecure student to successful writer. After publishing a well-received collection of short stories, Lisa writes a novel based on Ruth's affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz. The women deal with the moral dilemma of whether a person's life events are suitable for another to use in their own creative process.

Collected Stories

2002

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

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

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Last Married Couple in America poster
4.5

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

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

Collected Stories poster
NR

Ruth Steiner is a teacher and respected short story writer. Her student and protégée is Lisa Morrison. Over the course of six years, Lisa journeys from insecure student to successful writer. After publishing a well-received collection of short stories, Lisa writes a novel based on Ruth's affair with the poet Delmore Schwartz. The women deal with the moral dilemma of whether a person's life events are suitable for another to use in their own creative process.

Collected Stories

2002

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

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

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

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

Oh, God! Book II poster
5.5

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

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

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

Goldilocks and the Three Bears poster
6.2

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

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

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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

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

The Affair poster
3.8

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

The Affair

1973

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams poster
5.6

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.

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1973

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams poster
5.6

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.

Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams

1973

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

To All My Friends on Shore poster
6.8

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

To All My Friends on Shore

1972

To All My Friends on Shore poster
6.8

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

To All My Friends on Shore

1972

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

Call Me Anna poster
5.5

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

Call Me Anna

1990

The Kid From Nowhere poster
5.5

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 learns to let go.

The Kid From Nowhere

1982

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

Burning Rage poster
5.0

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

Burning Rage

1984

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

Dragonfly poster
7.3

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

Dragonfly

1976

Dragonfly poster
7.3

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

Dragonfly

1976

Rings Around the World poster
5.0

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; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.

Rings Around the World

1967

Rings Around the World poster
5.0

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; an archery act in which Grey Arrow shoots an apple off the head of Zuni, his wife; the Mascott Sisters' head-to-head balancing act on a high ladder; the juggling of Rudy Cardenas; high bar specialists, the Tongas; Gunther Gebel Williams with his tiger; the flying bar act of the Laribles; Carl Sembach-Krone's trained horses; lion tamer Pablo Noel; the Gaonas and the Four Titos on the trampoline; the Flying Armors on the flying trapeze; Frieda Krone and her elephants; Fredy Knie, Sr., and his Lippizaner; the Francesco Clowns; Lilly Yokoi on her bicycle; Mendez and Seitz on the tightrope; and Pauline Schumann on the trick horse.

Rings Around the World

1967

Country Gold poster
8.0

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.

Country Gold

1982

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

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