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Eric Roth Biography ((?)-)

Born in New York, NY; son of Leon (a film producer and university teacher) and Miriam "Mimi" (a radio writer, studio executive, and teacher) Roth; children: six. Addresses: Agent: David O'Connor, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212-1804.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer, actor

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Television Work
• Series
• Creator, The Heights, Fox, 1992
• Television Appearances
• Episodic
• Olive Loaf, "Veronica's Drag," Veronica's Closet, NBC, 1998
• Sales guy, "Love Plus One," Will & Grace, NBC, 2000
• Also appeared as a waiter in an episode of Providence, NBC.
• Other
• Pour une poignee d'herbes sauvages (also known as Les sauvagines), 1973
• WRITINGS
• Film
• To Catch a Pebble (also known as Please Whisper My Name), WorldWide Pictures, 1970
• The Nickel Ride, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975
• The Drowning Pool, Warner Bros., 1975
• The Concorde: Airport '79 (also known as Airport '79, Airport '80: The Concorde, The Concorde, and S.O.S. Concorde), 1979
• The Onion Field, Avco-Embassy, 1979
• Wolfen, Orion, 1981
• Suspect, TriStar, 1987, published as Suspect: The Screenplay, Harvest Moon, 2000
• (With Billy Crystal) Memories of Me, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1988
• (With Michael Cristofer) Mr. Jones (based on a story by Roth), TriStar, 1993
• Forrest Gump (based on a novel by Winston Groom), Paramount, 1994
• (Contributor, according to some sources) Apollo 13, Universal, 1995
• (With Brian Helgeland) The Postman, Warner Bros., 1997
• The Horse Whisperer (based on a novel by Nicholas Evans), Buena Vista, 1998
• (With Michael Mann) The Insider (based on an article by Marie Brenner, "The Man Who Knew Too Much"), Buena Vista, 1999
• (Contributor) Ali, Columbia, 2001
• Also author of Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend (based on a novel by Robert James Waller).
• Television
• (As Eric R. Roth) Strangers in 7A (movie), CBS, 1972
• Hearts Are Wild (pilot; also known as Jack of Hearts and Jack's House), CBS, 1992
• Jane's House (movie), CBS, 1994
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 2000
• Other
• Ali: The Movie and the Man, photographs by Frank Connor, NewmarketPress, 2001