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His film-directing debut was The Slender Thread (1965).
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After doing TV he made the jump into film with a string of movies that drew public attention.
But he found his real success in television in the 1960s by directing episodes of series, such as The Fugitive and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Pollack played a director in The Twilight Zone episode " The Trouble with Templeton" in 1961. It was during this time that Pollack met Burt Lancaster, who encouraged the young actor to try directing. In 1960, John Frankenheimer, a friend of Pollack, asked him to come to Los Angeles to work as a dialogue coach for the child actors on Frankenheimer's first big picture, The Young Savages. Īfter two years of army service ending in 1958, he returned to the Playhouse at Meisner's invitation to become his assistant. Pollack studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre from 1952 to 1954, working on a lumber truck between terms. ĭespite earlier plans to attend college and then medical school, Pollack left Indiana for New York City soon after finishing high school at age 17.
His mother, who suffered from alcoholism and emotional problems, died at the age of 37, when Pollack was 16.
The family relocated to South Bend and his parents divorced when he was young. Pollack was born in Lafayette, Indiana, to a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants, the son of Rebecca ( née Miller) and David Pollack, a semi-professional boxer and pharmacist.