Gilbert Cates was born on June 6, 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for I Never Sang for My Father (1970), Absolute Strangers (1991) and Dragonfly (1976). He was married to Dr. Judith Reichman and Jane Betty Dubin. He died on October 31, 2011 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
[March 2006] If you want a sense of what America is like, you will watch the Oscars.
I was always more interested in the battlefield of human relationships. The relationship between people and their families is a connecting thread between all my features and television movies.
To me, if you talk about the Directors Guild and leave out the point about trying to have one person reach the spirit of other people, then you're really missing the whole point of the Guild.