His longtime friend, the late “Inside the Actor’s Studio” host James Lipton, praised Rydell as an “actor’s director.”<\/p>\n
“There are few directors who really understand and who can encourage the actor, and when the actor needs guidance can give it to the actor in terms other than `just stand up now and walk two paces’ \u2014 all of those dumb directions.”<\/p>\n
Those sentiments were echoed on Instagram by actress Lesley Ann Warren, who appeared in Rydell’s 1976 film “Harry and Walter Go to New York” and considered him a friend.<\/p>\n
“It was always a joy to be around him,” she wrote. “He understood at the deepest level what actors need to propel them to express the writer’s vision, their own and ultimately, the director’s. I adored him and his ever present twinkle. I am forever grateful to have known and loved him. R.I.P, Maestro.”<\/p>\n
Others on social media celebrated Rydell’s skill directing emotionally driven, human-centric dramas. All told, his films garnered 26 Academy Award nominations, including eight for actor’s performances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"His longtime friend, the late “Inside the Actor’s Studio” host James Lipton, praised Rydell as an “actor’s director.”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-435003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}