Joe Roth
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 Players, an improvisational comedy group like Chicago's Second City, that led to his eventually producing the troupe's shows. In 1974, the Players relocated to L.A. and Roth, utilizing then-unknown comic actors like Chevy Chase, Howard Hesseman and Laraine Newman, produced his first film, "Tunnelvision." A spoof of TV programming made for $250,000, the film went on to gross around $17 million. Roth went on to produce such diverse features as "Our Winning Season" (1978), "Bachelor Party" and Christopher Cain's "The Stone Boy" (both 1984). He made his directorial debut with the boxing melodrama, "Streets of Gold" (1986) and went on to helm "Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise" (1987) and "Coupe de Ville" (1990). In 1987, he and James G. Robinson co-founded the Morgan Creek independent production company, responsible for such films as "Young Guns" and "Dead Ringers" (both 1988), "Enemies, A Love Story" and "Major League" (both 1989) and "Pacific Heights" (1990).
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Joe Roth
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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32% |
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Jackpot! | Producer | - | 2024 |
36% |
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A Family Affair | Producer | - | 2024 |
56% |
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Damsel | Producer | - | 2024 |
54% |
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Anyone But You | Producer | $88.1M | 2023 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bradman: The Movie | Screenwriter | - | 2023 |
38% |
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The School for Good and Evil | Producer | - | 2022 |
45% |
|
The Gray Man | Producer | - | 2022 |
94% |
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Hustle | Producer | - | 2022 |
59% |
|
F9 The Fast Saga | Producer | $173.0M | 2021 |
55% |
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday | Producer | - | 2021 |
15% |
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Dolittle | Producer | $77.0M | 2020 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Le Voyage du Docteur Dolittle | Producer | - | 2020 |
40% |
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Producer | $113.9M | 2019 |
46% |
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xXx: Return of Xander Cage | Producer | $44.9M | 2017 |
29% |
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Alice Through the Looking Glass | Producer | $77.0M | 2016 |
20% |
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The Huntsman: Winter's War | Producer | $48.0M | 2016 |
45% |
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Miracles From Heaven | Producer | $61.7M | 2016 |
42% |
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In the Heart of the Sea | Producer | $23.1M | 2015 |
54% |
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Maleficent | Producer | $241.4M | 2014 |
65% |
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Million Dollar Arm | Producer | $36.4M | 2014 |
52% |
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Heaven Is for Real | Producer | $91.4M | 2014 |
21% |
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Sabotage | Executive Producer | $10.5M | 2014 |
56% |
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Oz the Great and Powerful | Producer | $234.9M | 2013 |
48% |
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Snow White and the Huntsman | Producer | $155.1M | 2012 |
51% |
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Knight and Day | Executive Producer | $76.4M | 2010 |
50% |
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Alice in Wonderland | Producer | $334.2M | 2010 |
80% |
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The Great Debaters | Producer | $30.2M | 2007 |
12% |
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Little Man | Producer | $58.3M | 2006 |
23% |
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Freedomland | Director | $12.5M | 2006 |
53% |
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An Unfinished Life | Executive Producer | $8.5M | 2005 |
5% |
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Christmas With the Kranks | Director | $73.7M | 2004 |
31% |
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The Forgotten | Producer | $66.6M | 2004 |
33% |
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Mona Lisa Smile | Executive Producer | $63.7M | 2003 |
30% |
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Hollywood Homicide | Executive Producer | $30.0M | 2003 |
27% |
|
Daddy Day Care | Executive Producer | $104.1M | 2003 |
34% |
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Tears of the Sun | Executive Producer | $43.4M | 2003 |
33% |
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America's Sweethearts | Director | $93.6M | 2001 |
32% |
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Before and After | Executive Producer | $8.8M | 1996 |
17% |
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The Jerky Boys | Producer | $7.6M | 1995 |
81% |
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While You Were Sleeping | Producer | $81.1M | 1995 |
48% |
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Tall Tale: The Unbelievable Adventures of Pecos Bill | Producer | $8.2M | 1995 |
50% |
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Heavyweights | Producer | $17.7M | 1995 |
18% |
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Houseguest | Producer | $26.3M | 1995 |
53% |
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Angie | Executive Producer | $9.3M | 1994 |
4% |
|
A Low Down Dirty Shame | Producer | $29.4M | 1994 |
31% |
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Angels in the Outfield | Producer | $50.2M | 1994 |
30% |
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The Three Musketeers | Producer | $53.7M | 1993 |
58% |
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The Exorcist III | Executive Producer | $25.0M | 1990 |
55% |
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Nightbreed | Producer | $8.9M | 1990 |
31% |
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Young Guns II | Executive Producer | $40.4M | 1990 |
25% |
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Coupe de Ville | Director | $592.1K | 1990 |
89% |
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Enemies, a Love Story | Executive Producer | $7.8M | 1989 |
32% |
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Skin Deep | Co-Producer | $19.4M | 1989 |
85% |
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Dead Ringers | Executive Producer | $8.3M | 1988 |
7% |
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Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise | Director | $25.5M | 1987 |
60% |
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Where the River Runs Black | Producer | $582.0K | 1986 |
33% |
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Streets of Gold |
Director, Producer |
$2.3M | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Off Beat | Producer | $4.1M | 1986 |
No Score Yet |
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Moving Violations | Producer | - | 1985 |
67% |
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The Stone Boy | Producer | - | 1984 |
54% |
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Bachelor Party | Executive Producer | - | 1984 |
33% |
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The Final Terror | Producer | - | 1983 |
69% |
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains | Producer | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet |
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P.K. and the Kid | Producer | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Carnivore | Producer | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet |
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Americathon | Producer | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Winning Season | Producer | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cracking Up | Executive Producer | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tunnelvision | Producer | - | 1976 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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67% | 80% | Panic | Executive Producer | 2021 |
87% | 73% | The Plot Against America | Executive Producer | 2020 |
23% | 55% | Anger Management | Executive Producer | 2012-2014 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Are We There Yet? | Executive Producer | 2010-2013 |