Phillip J. Roth | |
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Portland, Oregon,USA |
10 June 1959
Occupation | Film producer, director and screenwriter |
Years active | 1982–present |
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Phillip J. Roth (born June 10, 1959) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter who is known for making low-budget films, some for Unified Film Organization, LLC which has released various action and science fiction films for television and home video markets.
Roth was born in Portland, Oregon to Phillip J. Roth, a Senior circuit judge from Multnomah County, Oregon and Ida Lorraine Roth Knudson. He attended high school in Portland, Oregon with musician Jim Goodwin, who has written the original music for several Roth films, including Digital Man and Velocity Trap.
He expressed an interest in cinema from an early age, upon seeing his first film that he wanted to "tell pictures with light" and he later achieved his dream. His first film Bad Trip, was made for television, which led to other hi-concept sci-fi romps like A.P.E.X. and Total Reality which have both have amazingly intricate and well-woven time travel storylines. During his career he has worked with such stars as Don Swayze and Dean Cain.
In 1995, Roth formed the Unified Film Organization with Ken Olandt in Burbank, California and the UFO International Productions, LLC in Sofia, Bulgaria. They recognized the growing demand in Science fiction and special effects driven action films.
He is also known as Philip Roth, Phillip Roth, Paul Joshua Rubin and Paul Joshua Rubins.
Roth met Leslie Crawford and they dated each other for 2 years from 1987 - 1989, they married in June 1989, soon afterwards they had a daughter called Natasha Mozelle Roth, after a 5 year relationship they divorced in March 1995.
He then met Lizzy Weintraub and they dated each other in 1994, they then married each other in May 1995, they had a son in 1998 called Aaron Henry Roth, after an 8 year relationship they divorced in January 2002.
In 2002, he met Ralitsa Roth and married her a year later, after a 5 year relationship they divorced in January 2008.
Roth met Ekaterina Jeliazkova in 2007, he married her in February 2008. She is his 4th and current wife.