FILE - Executive Producer Fred Roos poses at The U.S. Premiere of Focus Features "The Beguiled" at Directors Guild of America on Monday, June 12, 2017, in Los Angeles. Roos, the Oscar-winning producer of âThe Godfather Part IIâ who helped launch the careers of numerous superstars from Jack Nicholson to Tom Cruise, died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., Saturday, May, 18, 2024, a representative said Tuesday, May 21. He was 89.
was determined to never retire from the film business and to go with his boots on,” his son Alexander “Sandy” Roos said in a statement. “He got his wish.” Sometimes it took some convincing, like getting Ford in as Han Solo. In 2004, Ford said, “Once he believes in you, he is unrelenting. He kept putting me up for parts and I kept getting rejected. Finally, things worked out.”
Roos was born in Santa Monica, California, on May 22, 1934, and raised in Riverside and Los Angeles, where he attended high school at the famous Hollywood High. After graduating from UCLA in 1956, he was drafted and served two tours in Korea with the Army, one alongside Garry Marshall. Roos and Coppola would get two best picture nominations in the same year for “The Godfather Part II” and “The Conversation," winning for the former. Other films he produced for Coppola included “One from the Heart,” “Rumble Fish," “The Cotton Club,” “Tucker: The Man and His Dream" and “Tetro.”
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