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Roger Avary
Birthday: August 23, 1965

Birth Place: Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
Height: 0' 0"

Below is a complete filmography (list of movies he's appeared in) for Roger Avary. If you have any corrections or additions, please email us at corrections@actorsofhollywood.com. We'd also be interested in any trivia or other information you have.

 

Biography

Having been overshadowed by former co-worker Quentin Tarantino during the early 1990s, film maker Roger Avary finally established himself with his 2002 adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel The Rules of Attraction (2002). Avary was born on August 23, 1965 in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada, but grew up in Arizona in the United States. After briefly attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Avary drifted to nearby Manhattan Beach, California, and in the 1980s worked as a video store clerk. He became friends with fellow employee Tarantino. The pair often collaborated on stories. The stories eventually became screenplays, and the two often swapped material (which they might have later regretted). Around this time Avary wrote an 80-page script titled "The Open Road." Although never made it into a film, parts of this script were used for various bits and pieces that added up to classic scenes in future collaborations.It was not until 1992 that their first film was released, Reservoir Dogs (1992), for which Avary did some background writing. Though initially panned by a some critics (most notably, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel), the film resonated with audiences and won awards due to a level of artistically-penned nihilism not seen on the silver screen at the time. The amount of blood and violence defined Avary and Tarantino's early careers.Meanwhile, True Romance (1993), a film written by the pair and originally to be directed by Tarantino, was sold off in order to finance Reservoir Dogs. Unlike with the earlier film, True Romance had a larger portion of the film influenced by Avary's writing, but he was left uncredited by Tarantino. It was not the first - or last time - this happened. It was in 1994 that the pair really took of career-wise. Avary's directional debut, Killing Zoe (1994), was released. Dark, sexual, and violent, it won several independent cinema awards. But the film was compared too often to the works of Tarantino (who co-produced it), mostly because it came out around the same time as the pair's most famous work, Pulp Fiction (1994). The stories in Pulp Fiction - about a boxer, two hitmen, and their boss' wife - earned the duo an Academy Award for best original screenplay and it won the Palm d'Or (best film) from the Cannes film festival.After 1994, Avary and Tarantino went their separate ways artistically. They seldom discuss their divergence, though Avary hints that it has to do with how much creative juice they suck from each other. Even though he was now an Oscar winner, Avary spent the tail end of the decade doing mostly script rewrites and polishes. He received a chance to direct once again when Lions Gate Films bought the film rights to the Ellis novel, The Rules of Attraction. Being more faithful to the book than most adaptations, Avary was still able to insert his own style into the film that made critics take note of how different he could actually be from the grimmer Tarantino. The opening of the film even featured an in-joke about Killing Zoe being "wrongfully considered a Quentin Tarantino film."Since then, he has been putting some finishing touches on two film scripts for other directors while working on another adaptation for an Ellis book, _Glamorama (2004)_ .

Movie Credits
Beowulf (2007)
[ Anthony Hopkins ][ John Malkovich ][ Crispin Glover ][ Brendan Gleeson ][ Ray Winstone ]
Driver (2006)
Silent Hill (2006)
[ Sean Bean ][ Johnny Cash ][ Kim Coates ]
Glitterati (2004)
The Rules of Attraction (2002)
[ Eric Stoltz ][ Fred Savage ][ Ron Jeremy ][ Ian Somerhalder ][ Casper Van Dien ]
RPM (1998)
[ David Arquette ]
Odd Jobs (1997)
[ Patrick Dempsey ][ Aaron Spelling ]
Mr. Stitch (1996)
[ Ron Perlman ][ Rutger Hauer ][ Ron Jeremy ][ Wil Wheaton ][ Tom Savini ]
Crying Freeman (1995)
[ Mark Dacascos ][ Mako ][ Paul McGillion ]
Killing Zoe (1994)
[ Eric Stoltz ][ Ron Jeremy ][ Gary Kemp ]
Pulp Fiction (1994)
[ Bruce Willis ][ Quentin Tarantino ][ John Travolta ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Christopher Walken ]
True Romance (1993)
[ Brad Pitt ][ Gary Oldman ][ Samuel L. Jackson ][ Jack Black ][ Val Kilmer ]
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
[ Quentin Tarantino ][ Steve Buscemi ][ Michael Madsen ][ Harvey Keitel ][ Tim Roth ]
The Worm Turns (1983)

Trivia

  • Met Quentin Tarantino at a video store they both worked at in the 1980s.
  • Though Quentin Tarantino recieved credit, it was actually Avary who conceived the Top-Gun gay reference speech that Tarantino used in Sleep with Me (1994).
  • Often casts Eric Stoltz.
  • Wrote a script entitled "Pandemonium Reigns" which was never produced, but significant elements were later used to make "Pulp Fiction."
  • Frequently casts legendary porn star Ron Jeremy in bit parts.

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