Joe Roth

Joe Roth, director of Columbia's America's Sweethearts - 2001

Biography

Born 06/13/1948

Joe Roth studied communications at Boston University before settling in San Francisco where he first found employment as a production assistant on commercials and feature films and later as a booker for United Artists. At the same time, the native New Yorker began an association with the Pitchel...
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Highlights

  • In 2006, Directed the drama "Freedomland," starring Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Moore and Edie Falco
  • In 2004, Directed Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis in the holiday comedy "Christmas with the Kranks"
  • In 2001, Directed the comedy "America's Sweethearts" from a script by Billy Crystal and starring Julia Roberts, and Catherine Zeta-Jones

Family & Companions

  • parents: Communists; filed lawsuit that resulted in landmark legal decision banning school prayer

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