Biography
Roger Christian (born 25 February 1944) is an English set decorator, production designer and feature film director. He won an Academy Award for his work on the original Star Wars and was Oscar-nominated for his work on Alien. Christian directed the second unit on both Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as well as feature films including The Sender and Nostradamus. He also directed the 2000 film Battlefield Earth which is regarded as one of the worst films ever made.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Alien, Terror in Space
2025
as Self - Interviewee
In space, no one can hear you scream! the catchy slogan that accompanies Alien sums up the unprecedented stakes of this film that will mark the histor...

Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
as Self
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the ...

The Galaxy Britain Built: The British Force Behind Star Wars
2017
as Himself
Superfan David Whiteley celebrates the unsung British heroes behind the first film in the Star Wars’ franchise, 1977’s eponymously titled Star Wars. ...

Joseph and Mary
2016
Director
When loved ones are murdered, Elijah’s beliefs are compromised as he considers revenge. But a visit with Joseph and Mary may offer a new perspective.

Prisoners of the Sun
2013
Director
A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apoc...

Dangerous Intuition
2013
Director
Kate Aldrich, a successful career woman is devastated when her husband leaves her for stay at home mom, Laura, with whom she is forced to share custod...

Stranded
2013
Director, Writer
The Lunar Base Ark explores ore and unexpectedly is hit by a meteor shower and has severe damages. Colonel Gerard Brauchman sends the crewwoman Ava Ca...

13 Eerie
2013
Executive Producer
Forensics students arriving an isolated, island "body farm" get to try out their CSI skills on a bunch of corpses under the watchful eye of their grum...

Riddle of the Black Cat
2012
Producer
The horrifying 150-year-old mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's perverse masterpiece--solved at last! Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin matches wits with ...

Bandido
2004
Director, Producer, Production Design
When legendary thief Max Cruz is framed by the CIA, he has no choice but to help them with a top-secret mission in the Yucatan.

American Daylight
2004
Director
A young Indian woman works as an operator for a US bank that outsourced its call center to India. The bank's young local manager becomes interested in...

The Beast Within: Making Alien
2003
as Self
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Alien,” the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them on...

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: My First Adventure
2000
Second Unit Director
While traveling with his father's world-wide lecture tour, nine-year-old Indiana Jones encounters an ancient mummy and a fresh corpse at an archaeolog...

Battlefield Earth
2000
Director
In the year 3000, man is no match for the Psychlos, a greedy, manipulative race of aliens on a quest for ultimate profit. Led by the powerful Terl, th...

Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace
1999
Second Unit Director
Anakin Skywalker, a young slave strong with the Force, is discovered on Tatooine. Meanwhile, the evil Sith have returned, enacting their plot for reve...

Masterminds
1997
Director
A rebellious teen uses his talent for pranks to outwit the security consultant who has taken the students at his prestigious private school hostage.

Underworld
1996
Director
A crook sets out to get revenge on the thugs who hurt his father in this bloody noir-style crime drama. After being released from prison, Johnny Crown...

The Final Cut
1995
Director
A former bomb squad leader comes out of retirement to investigate a series of bombings plaguing Seattle.

Nostradamus
1994
Director, Story
A dramatic retelling of the life of Michel de Nostredame, from his early work as a plague doctor to his time at the court of Catherine de Medici, afte...

Lorca and the Outlaws
1984
Director, Writer
Jowitt, a mercenary without recluse institutes a totalitarian regime in a small mining city of an arid planet, Ordessa, helped in that by androids inc...

Return of the Jedi
1983
Second Unit Director
Luke Skywalker leads a mission to rescue his friend Han Solo from the clutches of Jabba the Hutt, while the Emperor seeks to destroy the Rebellion onc...

The Sender
1982
Director
A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.

The Dollar Bottom
1981
Director
Light-hearted tale about an enterprising Edinburgh boarding school boy who sets up an insurance scheme for fellow pupils in 1953 against getting caned...

Black Angel
1980
Director, Writer
A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until h...

Life of Brian
1979
Art Direction
Brian Cohen is an average young Jewish man, but through a series of ridiculous events, he gains a reputation as the Messiah. When he's not dodging his...

Alien
1979
Art Direction
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew...

The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1977
Set Decoration
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.

Star Wars
1977
Set Decoration
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker an...

Akenfield
1974
Art Direction
As a young man, Tom, prepares to leave the Suffolk village of his birth, voices and experiences from his family's past crowd in on his mind, weaving a...

And Soon the Darkness
1970
Assistant Art Director
Two young English women go on a cycling tour of the French countryside. When one of them goes missing, the other begins to search for her. But who can...

The Sword of Thyrus
N/A
Director, Producer, Screenplay
An intense journey of a knight guided by a sorcerer to follow his destiny and save the lands from a power hungry King and defeat the evil Black Angel ...