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Director, Producer, Executive Producer Born: June 13, 1948 in New York City, NY Biography:A onetime communications major at Boston University, producer/director "Joe Roth" worked as a production assistant with several San Francisco-based film companies. Utilizing several of the improvisational comics who had worked with him at Los Angeles' Pitchel Players (he ran lights while they got laughs), "Roth" produced an inexpensive "TV of the future" spoof called "Tunnelvision". The film did well on its first release in 1976, and even better in later years by virtue of its stars-in-the-making cast, which included "Chevy Chase", "Betty Thomas", "Howard Hesseman", and "Ron Silver". After several years' worth of low-budget but high-grossing films like "Bachelor Party" (1984) and "Moving Violations" (1986), "Roth" made his directing bow with "Streets of Gold" (1986). Forming Morgan Creek productions with partner Jim Robinson, "Roth" continued his winning box-office record with such films as "Young... Full Biography
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