Randy Roberts Biography

Fast Facts

• Won an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award for his work on "Chicago Hope․"
• Received an ACE Heritage Award and a Hollywood Post Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014
• Began his career as a child actor, appearing in an episode of "Warner Bros․ Presents" with Elizabeth Montgomery in 1956
• Worked in the mail room at Warner Bros․ before his uncle, Sam O'Steen, introduced him to film editing
• Quote: "The sooner you get behind, the more time you have to catch up․"
• Quote: "When I was a kid I used to build models and I never looked at the directions․ And to me that is basically what editing is․ They give you this box full of all these parts, and ․․․ you get to put all these pieces together and form your own film․"
• Best known as a film director, producer and editor who worked on TV series like "Chicago Hope" and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit․"
• Was a producer on the hit series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" for 10 years, beginning as a co-producer in 2001 and becoming a supervising producer in 2003
• Was on the board of directors of American Cinema Editors for 20 years, serving as vice president from 2005 to 2008 and as president from 2008 to 2012