- Born
- Roger Allers is an American animated film director and writer who is known for co-directing the influential 1994 Disney musical film The Lion King. He also worked on Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. He was intended to direct the musical drama Kingdom of the Sun, which got retooled into the 2000 comedy The Emperor's New Groove.- IMDb mini biography by: Christian Frates
- SpouseLeslee Hackenson(1977 - present) (divorced, 2 children)
- Children
- RelativesLeah Allers(Sibling)Aidan Allers(Sibling)
- Father of actress, Leah Allers.
- Received several International Film Festival Awards, in 2006, for his Oscar-nominated short film, La petite fille aux allumettes (2006).
- Nominated for a Tony award, for co-writing the book for Disney's Broadway musical, The Lion King.
- Presented his new short film La petite fille aux allumettes (2006) at the premiere of a revival/promotional screening of the 1989 Disney classic La Petite Sirène (1989) at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on September 7th, 2006.
- He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Le Roi lion (1994).
- My father died a few years before I started work on Le Roi lion (1994) so it definitely was in there, informing the whole thing. I know one thing we wanted to do when we finished it was to dedicate it to our fathers. To all fathers which I thought would have been a nice idea.
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