Roger Avary - Definition and Overview

Roger Avary (b. August 23, 1965) is a Canadian born movie writer, producer and director.

Roger Roberts Avary was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, the son of a mining engineer, but grew up in Arizona. He attended the Art Center College of Design.

In the early 1980s he moved to Manhattan Beach, California. From around 1986 he was reduced to working in a video store, a co-worker was Quentin Tarantino. He did writing work on Reservoir Dogs (1992), True Romance (1993) and Pulp Fiction (1994) with Tarantino, he also wrote and directing Killing Zoe (1994) with Tarantino as producer. He then moved into work for television and made two unsuccessful pilot episodes. He returned to cinema, writing the screenplay for the Bret Easton Ellis novel The Rules of Attraction (2002), he was also the director and executive producer.

Filmography

Director

• The Worm Turns (1983)
• Killing Zoe (1994)
• Mr. Stitch (1996)
• The Rules of Attraction (2002)
• Glitterati (2004)

Writer

• The Worm Turns (1983)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• True Romance (1993)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Killing Zoe (1994)
• Crying Freeman (1995)
• Mr. Stitch (1996)
• Odd Jobs (1997)
• RPM (2000)
• The Rules of Attraction (2002)
• Glitterati (2004)

External links

• Roger Avary's official web site (http://www.avary.com)
• IMDb entry for Roger Avary (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000812/)
• All Movie Guide entry for Roger Avary (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=B188303)