Carroll was raised in
New York City where he was influenced by his father's love of literature. He received his education from
Princeton University in advertising and after military duty as a first lieutenant in the
Korean War, he returned to Manhattan and entered the advertising world at
Foote, Cone & Belding. He began his film career as executive producer of
How to Murder Your Wife, which was filmed in March 1964 and produced through
Jack Lemmon's independent film production company,
Jalem Productions. In August 1964, Lemmon appointed Carroll vice president of Jalem Productions. From there, he went on to produce other films through Jalem, including
Luv and
Cool Hand Luke (both 1967), and
The April Fools (1969). After parting ways with Lemmon, he partnered with
Paul Newman (who had starred in
Cool Hand Luke) to make
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973). He later worked on such films as
Blue Thunder (1983) starring
Roy Scheider,
The Best of Times (1986) starring
Kurt Russell and
Robin Williams, and
Red Heat (1988) starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger and
Jim Belushi. He also produced the first five films of the
Alien franchise:
Alien (1979),
Aliens (1986),
Alien 3 (1992),
Alien Resurrection(1997), and
Alien vs. Predator (2004). == Death ==