Fred Roos

Biography

Frederick Ried Roos was a renowned American film producer and casting director, best known for his collaborations with Francis Ford Coppola during the New Hollywood movement. He won the Academy Award for Best Picture for The Godfather: Part II (1974), with further nominations for The Conversation (1974) and Apocalypse Now (1979). A graduate of UCLA's theatre arts and motion pictures program, Roos began his career in talent agency MCA Inc. before transitioning into casting.