Roger Avary

AKA:
Franklin Brauner Roger Roberts Avary
Nationality:
Canadian
Birthdate:
08/23/1965
Birthplace:
Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada
biography
Though not as widely recognized or worshiped as his one-time collaborator Quentin Tarantino, writer-director Roger Avary was nonetheless at the forefront of the new wave of neo-noir filmmakers to emerge in the mid-1990s and revitalize a stodgy industry. In fact, Avary had his hand in many of Tarantino’s early projects, most notably as a co-writer on the pair’s ode to 1950s pulp novels, “Pulp Fiction” (1994). After sharing the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, however, Avary and Tarantino went their separate ways in a public spat that many thought was due to Tarantino’s hogging of the Continued
Credits
Executive Producer
2007
Screenplay
2007
Screenplay
2006
Executive Producer
2002
Director
2002
screenplay
2002
Stories By
1994
Director
1994
screenplay
1994
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
milestones
Year
Milestone
1980 
Began making Super-8 short films
1983 
Won Los Angeles Student Film Expo at 16 with "The Worm Turns"
1987 
Began work at D'arcy Masius Benton & Bowles advertising agency
 
Penned 80-page script "The Open Road" which Quentin Tarantino used it as the basis for what became "True Romance"; Avary assisted in structuring Tarantino's version but did not receive screen credit
1992 
Wrote background dialogue and designed logo for "Reservoir Dogs"
1993 
Film directing debut "Killing Zoe" (also scripted)
Continued