Background
He was born in Paris, France to Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902), a cousin of United States. President Theodore Roosevelt, who married a French actress Anna, and was baptized at the American Cathedral, Paris.
He was born in Paris, France to Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902), a cousin of United States. President Theodore Roosevelt, who married a French actress Anna, and was baptized at the American Cathedral, Paris.
Roosevelt was an adventurer, traveling to Bali in 1924, attempting to develop the tourist market but at the same time preserve Bali"s cultural integrity. He envisioned making Bali a national or international park with laws to regulate it as such. In 1928 and 1929, he and Armand Denis shot Goona-Goona, An Authentic Melodrama (also called The Kris) with assistance from Walter Spies.
lieutenant was released in the United States in 1930 and started an American craze for Bali.
He was also known for his 1938 film Beyond the Caribbean. He died in July 1962 in Portuguese-au-Prince, Haiti.