Joe Roth Biography

Fast Facts

• Best known for producing and directing several films
• Recognized as the driving force behind "Home Alone" and "The Sixth Sense․"
• His father, Lawrence Roth, worked as a foreman at a plastics plant
• Married Donna Roth, the daughter of movie mogul Samuel Z․ Arkoff
• Quote: "I want to be a simple company that doesn't compete with the studios so that we can do whatever we want․"
• Quote: "As a producer, besides the idea, casting is the most fun․"
• Founded Revolution Studios in 2000
• Served as chairman of 20th Century Fox, Caravan Pictures and Walt Disney Studios throughout the 1990s
• Majority owner of the Seattle Sounders FC professional soccer franchise
• Named his production company, "Revolution," after the Beatles song of the same name