Bobby Roth

This article is about the television director. For the American baseball player, see Braggo Roth.

Robert Jay Roth (born 1950) is an American television and film director, screenwriter and producer.

Bobby Roth
Roth in 2018
Born	Robert Jay Roth 1950 (age 74–75) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Film director, producer, writer
Years active	1976–present
Spouses	Leslie Tobin Bacon Pamela Springsteen ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	2, including Nick

Life and career

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Roth began his tertiary education at the University of California, Berkeley studying philosophy and creative writing before earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Cinema at the University of Southern California in 1972. He continued his education at the University of California, Los Angeles enrolling in the Master of Fine Arts program and received his graduate degree in motion picture production in 1975.^[1] The following year, he wrote, produced and directed his first film, Independence Day. His 1984 film Heartbreakers was entered into the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.^[2] In 1988, Roth wrote and directed the television film Dead Solid Perfect.^[1]

Over the course of his career, Roth has written, produced, and directed several television and feature films and episodes. Television series he has worked on include: Miami Vice, Beverly Hills, 90210, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,^[2] Numb3rs,^[3] Commander in Chief,^[4] Without a Trace,^[5] New Amsterdam,^[6] Raising the Bar, Criminal Minds,^[7] Prison Break,^[8] Lost,^[9] FlashForward,^[10] Fringe,^[11] Life Unexpected,^[12] V,^[13] The Mentalist,^[14] Revenge,^[15] Breakout Kings,^[16] Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Grey's Anatomy,^[17] Scorpion, Hawaii 5-0,^[18] Player^[19] and the 2017 reboot of MacGyver^[20] among many more.

He was a founding member of the Independent Feature Project and the first co-chairman of the DGA's Independent Feature Committee. His films have won many awards and have been exhibited in over 100 international film festivals. He also teaches film seminars throughout the world and is the recipient of the 2017 Miami Web Fest Lifetime Achievement Award.^[21]

Television

Year	Title	Network	Ref.
1984	Miami Vice	NBC	[22]
1985	The Insiders	ABC	[23]
1986	Crime Story	NBC	[24]
1992	Beverly Hills, 90210	Fox	[25]
	Summer (pilot)	CBS
1995/96	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1997	The Profiler	NBC
1998	Vengeance Unlimited	ABC	[26]
2001	Going to California	Showtime
2001/2	The Division	Lifetime
2002	Boomtown	NBC
	Girls Club	Fox
2003	Hack	CBS
	John Doe	Fox
2004/5	Blind Justice	ABC
2005	Numbers	CBS
2005/6	Prison Break	Fox
2005/6	Commander-in-Chief	ABC
2006	Lincoln Height	ABC Family
2006	Vanished	Fox
	Without a Trace	CBS
2006/7	Prison Break	Fox
2007	Lost	ABC
	Prison Break	Fox
	New Amsterdam
	Without a Trace	CBS
2008	Criminal Minds
	Raising the Bar	TNT
	Prison Break	Fox
	Shattered (pilot)	Global
2008-2009	Lost	ABC
2009	Prison Break	Fox
	Fringe
	FlashForward	ABC
	Happy Town
	Lost
2010	Flash Forward
	V
	Life Unexpected	CW
2011	The Mentalist	CBS
	Revenge	ABC
	Breakout Kings	A&E
2012	The Lying Game	ABC Family
	Revenge	ABC
	The Lying Game	ABC Family
	Revenge	ABC
	Mistresses
	Beauty & the Beast	CW
2013	Revenge	ABC
	Grey's Anatomy
	Revenge
	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2013-14	Grey's Anatomy
2014-15	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
2014-15	Scorpion	CBS
2014	Revenge	ABC
2015-16	Hawaii Five-0	CBS
2015	Player	NBC
2016	Of Kings and Prophets	ABC
2016-17	MacGyver	CBS
2017	The Last Ship	TNT
2019	V Wars	Amazon

Television films

Year	Title	Network	Ref.
1986	Tonight's the Night	ABC	[27]
1987	The Man Who Fell to Earth		[28]
1988	Baja Oklahoma	HBO	[29]
1988	Dead Solid Perfect		[30]
1990	Rainbow Drive	Showtime	[31]
1992	Keeper of the City		[32]
	The Switch	CBS	[33]
1993	Judgment Day: The John List Story		[34]
	Ride with the Wind	ABC	[35]
1994	Nowhere to Hide		[36]
	Kidnapped: In the Line of Duty	NBC	[37]
1995	Naomi & Wynonna: Love Can Build a Bridge		[38]
1996	Tell Me No Secrets	ABC	[39]
1997	The Inheritance	CBS	[40]
	The Devil's Child	ABC	[41]
1998	Her Own Rules	CBS	[42]
1999	A Secret Affair		[43]
	A Holiday Romance
2000	Dancing at the Harvest Moon		[44]
2001	Crossed-Over		[45]
2003	A Date with Darkness: The Trial and Capture of Andrew Luster	Lifetime
	The Elizabeth Smart Story	CBS	[46]
2004	Brave New Girl	ABC Family	[47]
2010	Reviving Ophelia	Lifetime	[48]
2011	The Killing Game		[49]

Selected features

• Circle of Power (1983)
• Heartbreakers (1984)
• Dead Solid Perfect (1988)
• The Man Inside (1990)
• Jack the Dog (2001)
• Manhood (2003)
• Berkeley (2005)
• Pearl (2020)