Still of Roman Polanski and James Toback in Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
				
				
						 Caption: Still of Roman Polanski and James Toback in Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
																																				
						Writer, Director, Actor
						Born: November 23, 1944
						Star sign: Sagittarius
						Height: 6' (1.83 m)
						Known for: Tyson (2008), Bugsy (1991), The Gambler (2014), The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
						Source: IMDB
						James Toback, highly respected as a screenwriter and the director of nine films, was born on November 23, 1944 in New York City to a successful garment manufacturer. A 1966 graduate of Harvard College, Toback later taught creative writing at City College of New York in the early 1970s. He suffered from a gambling compulsion that still plagues him,...