Biography
Roger Avary (born Roger d'Avary on August 23, 1965) is a Canadian film and television producer, screenwriter and director in the American mass media industry. He was behind the screenplays of the films Silent Hill and Beowulf. Before that, he had worked on Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, the latter of which earned both him and Quentin Tarantino an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Academy Awards. He also directed the films Killing Zoe and The Rules of Attraction, among other film a...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend
2021
as Self (archive footage)
Who has ever compared Reservoir Dogs? What are “Open Road” and “New World Disorder”? Why is Harvey Keitel a fairy and how did we all almost become die...

Lucky Day
2019
Director, Executive Producer, Writer
Red, a safe cracker who has just been released from prison, is trying to hold his family together as his past catches up with him in the form of Luc, ...

The Human Voice
2018
Director
A woman’s last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else.

Glitterati
2011
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography
A re-edited version of the "European Trip" section from The Rules of Attraction, originally meant to bridge the gap between adaptations of Bret Easton...

Inspired by Bret Easton Ellis
2010
Thanks
Commissioned by Random House and Bret Easton Ellis.

Beowulf
2007
Executive Producer, Screenplay
A 6th-century Scandinavian warrior named Beowulf embarks on a mission to slay the man-like ogre, Grendel.

Path of Darkness: Making 'Silent Hill'
2006
as Self
6 part behind the scenes feature on making 'Silent Hill'.

Silent Hill
2006
Writer
Rose, a desperate mother takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car ...

Standing Still
2005
as Franklin Brauner
A chain reaction of confrontations and romantic encounters occurs when college friends reunite for one's wedding.

Kaante
2002
Original Story
After being wrongfully detained and humiliated, six men meet in a lock-up. In a quest to seek revenge, they make the perfect plan of robbing the bank ...

The Rules of Attraction
2002
Director, Screenplay
The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a...

The Last Man
2000
Executive Producer
Apocalyptic comedy finds a socially-challenged grad school student as one of the last two men on Earth with a beautiful woman.

Phantasm IV: Oblivion
1998
as 13th Morningside Volunteer Infantryman
Taking off immediately where the last one ended, in this episode Mike travels across dimensions and time fleeing from the Tall Man, at the same time h...

RPM
1998
Story
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.

Boogie Boy
1998
Executive Producer
A man who has just been released from prison vows to start a new life, but is put to the test when an old cellmate appears.

Mr. Stitch
1995
Writer, Director
Doctor Rue Wakeman and his team create a young man with skin and organs taken from other men and women. The creature (Lazarus) reads a lot of books an...

Crying Freeman
1995
Screenplay
A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yak...

Pulp Fiction
1994
Story
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime cape...

Killing Zoe
1993
Director, Writer
Zed is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric. Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the...

True Romance
1993
Screenplay
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Reservoir Dogs
1992
Creator, Writer, Additional Dialogue
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- vet...

Dolph Lundgren: Maximum Potential
1987
Production Office Assistant
Dolph Lundgren has put together his varied and comprehensive personal workout on home video, comprised of body sculpturing, boxing, shadow boxing, run...

My Best Friend's Birthday
1987
Director of Photography
My Best Friend's Birthday is a partially lost black-and-white amateur film. The original cut was about 70 minutes long but due to a fire only 36 minut...

The Worm Turns
1983
Director, Writer
A 1983 English language short film written and directed by Roger Avary, starring Andrew Blinn, Stephen A. Housden and Brian Leckner.