Philip Roth

Philip Roth

Birth : 1930-07-06, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Death : 2002-07-15

Profile

Philip Roth

Movies

The Baltimore Bullet
Bookie
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
The Chopped Liver Brothers
Nathan Railoff
Tom and Jay are best friends. Tom is married to Sally and Jay is single. Tom and Jay are also stand-up comedians and their mishaps as they seek stardom as headliners are related.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Woolsey
A petty criminal fakes insanity to serve his sentence in a mental ward rather than prison. He soon finds himself as a leader to the other patients—and an enemy to the cruel, domineering nurse who runs the ward.
Whiffs
Waiter
Elliott Gould steals Army nerve gas to help him rob banks when he’s kicked out of the military after 15 years of service as a human guinea pig in its chemical warfare experiments.
Harry and Tonto
Vegas Gambler
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
Blume in Love
Party Guest (uncredited)
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife.
What's Up, Doc?
Mr. Jones
The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.
Catch-22
Doctor
A bombardier in World War II tries desperately to escape the insanity of the war. However, sometimes insanity is the only sane way to cope with a crazy situation.