Roger De Bris

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Roger De Bris
Roger DeBris as Hitler portrayed by Gary Beach
Created by	Mel Brooks
Portrayed by	Christopher Hewett in the 1968 film, Gary Beach in the 2001 Brodway musical and 2005 film
Information
Gender	Male
Occupation	Theatre director
Spouse(s)	Carmen Ghia, "common law assistant"
Address	New York City

Roger Elizabeth De Bris is a fictional character who first appeared in Mel Brooks' 1968 movie, The Producers, played by Christopher Hewett.

He is a gay theatre director, described by Max Bialystock as the worst director to have ever lived. The character returned in the 2001 Broadway musical of the same name, and also in a 2005 Hollywood movie, which was based on the musical. Both times he was played by Gary Beach. He lives with his equally flamboyant partner Carmen Ghia and his production crew in a house described as an Upper East Side town house in New York.

Personality

• In the 2001 musical and 2005 film, he was given the role of Adolf Hitler in Springtime for Hitler after Franz Liebkind breaks his leg running into the theater.

• Some critics have speculated that Brooks included the overtly gay characters of Roger De Bris and his male "secretary" Carmen Ghia so that audiences would not perceive an unintended homosexual subtext in the friendship between Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom.^{[citation needed]}

• De Bris is described by Bialystock as the worst director to ever live, and was chosen by Bialystock in an attempt to ensure that "Springtime for Hitler" would flop.

External links

• Roger De Bris at the Internet Movie Database

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