Roger B. Smith

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-07-12 (82 years old)

Deathday

2007-11-29

Place of Birth

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Roger B. Smith

Biography

Roger Bonham Smith (July 12, 1925 – November 29, 2007) was the chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation from 1981 to 1990, and is widely known as the main subject of Michael Moore's 1989 documentary film Roger & Me. Smith seemed to be the last of the old-line GM chairmen, a conservative anonymous bureaucrat, resisting change. However, propelled by industry and market conditions, Smith oversaw some of the most fundamental changes in GM's history. When Smith took over GM, it was reeling from its first annual loss since the early 1920s. Its reputation had been tarnished by lawsuits, persistent quality problems, bad labor relations, public...

Acting

1985

2007

Manufacturing Dissent

as Self (archive footage)

1993

Two Mikes Don't Make a Wright

as Self (archive footage)

1989

Roger & Me

as Self

Production

1989

Roger & Me

as Thanks

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