American film producer (1934–2024)
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| Born | Frederick Ried Roos
(1934-05-22)May 22, 1934
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| Died | May 18, 2024(2024-05-18) (aged 89)
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| Occupation(s) | Film producer, casting director |
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| Years active | 1964–2024 |
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Frederick Ried Roos (May 22, 1934 – May 18, 2024) was an American film producer andcasting director. He was best known for his contributions to theNew Hollywood movement, particularly through his collaborations with directorFrancis Ford Coppola. He won theAcademy Award for Best Picture forThe Godfather: Part II (1974), with a second nomination forApocalypse Now (1979).[1]
Frederick Ried Roos was born on May 22, 1934, inSanta Monica, California, the son of Florence Mary (née Stout) and Victor Otto Roos.[2] He attendedHollywood High School and subsequently attendedUniversity of California, Los Angeles, majoring in theatre arts and motion pictures.[3][4]
He started his career in television as a casting director forThe Andy Griffith Show. Later, he produced most ofFrancis Ford Coppola's films subsequent toThe Godfather, includingApocalypse Now andYouth Without Youth. Roos won theAcademy Award for Best Picture for producingThe Godfather Part II.
In 2007, he was a member of the jury at the29th Moscow International Film Festival.[5]
Roos died inBeverly Hills, California, on May 18, 2024, four days before his 90th birthday.[6][7] His final film,Megalopolis, had held its world premiere two days prior at the2024 Cannes Film Festival.[8]
As producer (including co-producer and executive producer):
As casting director
- ^Saperstein, Pat (2024-05-21)."Fred Roos, Oscar-Winning Producer of 'Godfather Part II' and Casting Director of 'The Godfather,' 'Megalopolis,' Dies at 89".Variety. Retrieved2024-05-26.
- ^Film Reference
- ^Babitz, Eve (2019). "All This andThe Godfather Too".I Used To Be Charming. New York: New York Review of Books. pp. 39–40.ISBN 9781681373799.
- ^Welsh, James M.; Phillips, Gene D.; Hill, Rodney F. (2010-08-27).The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia. Scarecrow Press.ISBN 978-0-8108-7651-4.
- ^"29th Moscow International Film Festival (2007)".MIFF. Archived fromthe original on 2013-04-21. Retrieved2013-04-22.
- ^Sciences, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and."Fred Roos, Oscar-Winning Producer of 'The Godfather Part II,' Dies at 89".A.frame. Retrieved2024-05-26.
- ^"Fred Roos Dies: Oscar-Winning 'Godfather Part II' Producer & Longtime Coppola Collaborator Was 89".Deadline. 2024-05-21. Retrieved2024-05-21.
- ^Tartaglione, Nancy; D'Alessandro, Anthony;Bamigboye, Baz (May 16, 2024)."Megalopolis Debuts at Cannes with 7-Minute Standing Ovation".Deadline Hollywood. RetrievedMay 22, 2024.
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| 1976–2000 | - Robert Chartoff andIrwin Winkler (1976)
- Charles H. Joffe (1977)
- Michael Cimino,Michael Deeley,John Peverall andBarry Spikings (1978)
- Stanley R. Jaffe (1979)
- Ronald L. Schwary (1980)
- David Puttnam (1981)
- Richard Attenborough (1982)
- James L. Brooks (1983)
- Saul Zaentz (1984)
- Sydney Pollack (1985)
- Arnold Kopelson (1986)
- Jeremy Thomas (1987)
- Mark Johnson (1988)
- Lili Fini Zanuck andRichard D. Zanuck (1989)
- Kevin Costner andJim Wilson (1990)
- Ron Bozman,Edward Saxon andKenneth Utt (1991)
- Clint Eastwood (1992)
- Branko Lustig,Gerald R. Molen andSteven Spielberg (1993)
- Wendy Finerman,Steve Starkey andSteve Tisch (1994)
- Bruce Davey,Mel Gibson andAlan Ladd Jr. (1995)
- Saul Zaentz (1996)
- James Cameron andJon Landau (1997)
- Donna Gigliotti,Marc Norman,David Parfitt,Harvey Weinstein andEdward Zwick (1998)
- Bruce Cohen andDan Jinks (1999)
- David Franzoni,Branko Lustig andDouglas Wick (2000)
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| 2001–present | - Brian Grazer andRon Howard (2001)
- Martin Richards (2002)
- Peter Jackson,Barrie M. Osborne andFran Walsh (2003)
- Clint Eastwood,Tom Rosenberg andAlbert S. Ruddy (2004)
- Paul Haggis andCathy Schulman (2005)
- Graham King (2006)
- Ethan Coen, Joel Coen andScott Rudin (2007)
- Christian Colson (2008)
- Kathryn Bigelow,Mark Boal,Nicolas Chartier andGreg Shapiro (2009)
- Iain Canning,Emile Sherman andGareth Unwin (2010)
- Thomas Langmann (2011)
- Ben Affleck,George Clooney andGrant Heslov (2012)
- Dede Gardner,Anthony Katagas,Jeremy Kleiner,Steve McQueen andBrad Pitt (2013)
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu,John Lesher andJames W. Skotchdopole (2014)
- Blye Pagon Faust,Steve Golin,Nicole Rocklin andMichael Sugar (2015)
- Dede Gardner,Jeremy Kleiner andAdele Romanski (2016)
- J. Miles Dale andGuillermo del Toro (2017)
- Jim Burke, Brian Currie,Peter Farrelly,Nick Vallelonga andCharles B. Wessler (2018)
- Bong Joon-ho andKwak Sin-ae (2019)
- Mollye Asher, Dan Janvey,Frances McDormand,Peter Spears andChloé Zhao (2020)
- Fabrice Gianfermi,Philippe Rousselet, Patrick Wachsberger (2021)
- Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert andJonathan Wang (2022)
- Emma Thomas,Charles Roven, andChristopher Nolan (2023)
- Alex Coco,Samantha Quan, andSean Baker (2024)
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