Career
Born in Los Angeles, the son of legendary comedy producer Hal Roach and actress Marguerite Nichols, Roach, Junior. co-directed One Million British Columbia with his father. Roach, Junior. produced individual episodes of many early television series but no well-known films aside from those directly involving his father. He died in 1972, at the age of 53 after falling ill with pneumonia.
His father outlived him for an additional twenty years, dying at the age of 100 in 1992.
Roach is buried in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Los Angeles