Gilbert "Gil" Cates (born: 6 June1934 in New York, New York) is an American television producer and director. He is probably best known for producing many of the annual Academy Awards shows on television. June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Producer may refer to: Theatrical producer Film producer Television producer Radio producer Online producer Executive producer, supervises one or more producers Record producer, or music producer, in the music industry Game producer, in the computer game industry. ... Generally a director is a person or one of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a government agency, company, corporation, group or project. ... Academy Awards The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent film awards in the United States. ...
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Gilbert Cates at The Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) [1] is an online database of information about actors, movies, television shows, television stars and video games. ...
Cates was born in New York City; her father, director Joseph Cates, is of Jewish heritage; her maternal grandfather was a Chinese Filipino, and her maternal grandmother was a Russian Jew.
That same year, in the romance film Paradise, and in contrast to the coyness of Brooke Shields in the similarly themed The Blue Lagoon, Cates appeared nude, although she was said to have used a body double in some of the close-ups.
Kline and Cates make their home in New York City and have three children, Owen Kline, born in 1991 (who, in 2005, received rave reviews for his performance in The Squid and the Whale), Greta Kline, born in 1994 and Autumn Belle Kline born in December of 2005.