From London, England, UK • Born in Feb 25, 1944 (82 years old)
Roger John Christian (born 25 February 1944) is an English film director, screenwriter, art director, and set decorator. He won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction - Set Decoration for his work on the original Star Wars (1977), with a second Oscar nomination for his work on Alien (1979). After directing the well-regarded shorts Black Angel (1980) and The Dollar Bottom (1981), Christian made his feature debut with the science-fiction horror film The Sender (1982). He is also known for directing the period biopic Nostradamus (1994) and the L. Ron Hubbard adaptation Battlefield Earth (2000), and was a second unit director on the Star Wars films Return of the Jedi (1983) and The Phantom Menace (1999). (Via Wikipedia)
