Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer, and Oscar-winning screenwriter.
Roger Avary is the son of a Brazilian-raised deep-shaft mining engineer and a German physical therapist. Avary was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada but grew up in Oracle, Arizona, the home of Biosphere 2. In the early 1970s Avary's family moved first to Torrance, California and then to Manhattan Beach, California whe...
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Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-born motion picture director, producer, and Oscar-winning screenwriter.
Roger Avary is the son of a Brazilian-raised deep-shaft mining engineer and a German physical therapist. Avary was born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada but grew up in Oracle, Arizona, the home of Biosphere 2. In the early 1970s Avary's family moved first to Torrance, California and then to Manhattan Beach, California where he attended Mira Costa High School. Avary, a cartoonist in the style of Sergio Aragonés and Tom Eaton, made numerous early animations on the 8 mm and Super-8 formats. In 1979 he began working at one of the first video stores in Southern California, Video Out-Takes, in Redondo Beach, California. The store was owned by the father of his childhood friend, and first collaborator, Scott Magill. The two had grown up making movies together, and experimenting in early Betamax videotape formats. One of Avary's early Super-8 mm films, The Worm Turns,...
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