Gene Saks
Directing · Director · Executive Producer
Born Nov 8, 1921 · New York City, New York, USA
Active 1955–2015 · Awards: Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play, Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical
Gene Saks (born Jean Michael Saks; November 8, 1921 – March 28, 2015) was an American director and actor. As a stage director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three for his direction of I Love My Wife, Brighton Beach…
Filmography
Deconstructing Harry (1997) — Harry's FatherThe Odd Couple (1968) — DirectorLaw & Order (1990) — Carl SamuelBarefoot in the Park (1967) — DirectorNobody's Fool (1994) — Wirf WirfleyCactus Flower (1969) — DirectorI.Q. (1994) — Boris PodolskyThe Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975) — Harry EdisonBrighton Beach Memoirs (1986) — DirectorA Thousand Clowns (1965) — LeoThe Goodbye People (1984) — Marcus SolowayMame (1974) — DirectorThe Good Policeman (1991)Bye Bye Birdie (1995) — DirectorThe One and Only (1978) — Sidney SeltzerLovesick (1983) — Mr. Houseman, Frantic PatientBarrymore (2012) — Executive ProducerLast of the Red Hot Lovers (1972) — DirectorPlaywrights '56 (1955)A Fine Romance (1991) — DirectorThree Plays by Tennessee Williams (1958) — Bob Harper (Segment "The Last of My Solid Gold Watches")The Dybbuk (1960) — Mikoel