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Terry Rossio Biography (1960-)

Born July 2, 1960, in Kalamazoo, MI. Addresses: Agent: Brian Siberell,Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Occupation

Writer

Birth Details

July 2, 1960

Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Famous Works

• CREDITS
• Film Work
• Coproducer, Shrek (animated), DreamWorks, 2001
• WRITINGS
• Screenplays
• with Ted Elliott
• Little Monsters, United Artists, 1989
• (Also with John Musker and Ron Clements) Aladdin (animated), BuenaVista, 1992
• (Also with David Goyer) The Puppet Masters (also known as Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters), Buena Vista, 1994
• (Also with Gavin Scott and Adam Rifkin) Small Soldiers, DreamWorks, 1998
• (Also with John Eskow) The Mask of Zorro (also based on a story byElliott, Rossio, and Randall Jahnson), TriStar, 1998
• The Road to El Dorado (animated), DreamWorks, 2000
• (Also with Joe Stillman and Roger S. H. Schulman) Shrek (animated;based on a book by William Steig), DreamWorks, 2001
• (Also with Stuart Beattie and Jay Wolpert) Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (also based on a story by Elliott and Rossio), Buena Vista/Walt Disney, 2003
• National Treasure, Buena Vista, 2004
• Video Games
• Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, Microsoft, 1996
• Books
• (With Ted Elliott, James Luceno, and others) The Mask of Zorro: A Novelization, Pocket Books, 1998

Further Reference

ADAPTATIONS

• Other screenplays have been based on stories by Rossio, Ted Elliott, andvarious collaborators, including Godzilla, released by TriStar in 1998; and Treasure Planet (animated), Buena Vista/Walt Disney, 2002.

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

• Starlog, November, 1994

Electronic

• Wordplayer, http://www.wordplayer.com, January 10, 2004
• Writers Guild of America Web Site, http://www.wga.org, January 12,2004