---
name: "Robert Roy Pool"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/robert-roy-pool"
fi1m_id: "robert-roy-pool"
imdb_id: "nm0690798"
tmdb_id: 873
wikidata_id: "Q7349411"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 65
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T00:06:10.345598+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Robert Roy Pool

## Identity

Robert Roy Pool

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-roy-pool
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-roy-pool
- **IMDb ID:** nm0690798
- **TMDB ID:** 873
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7349411
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Roy_Pool, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7349411, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690798/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/873

Writer. Born 1 January 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953
- **Active:** 1995–1998
- **Average Fi1m score:** 65, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Roy_Pool, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7349411, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0690798/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/873

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Outbreak*](https://film.one/film/outbreak.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Robert Roy Pool is an American screenwriter. He received a story credit on the 1998 film *Armageddon* and co-wrote the screenplay for the 1995 film *Outbreak* with Laurence Dworet.

Pool also wrote the screenplay for the 1987 film *The Big Town*. He has collaborated with Dworet on other projects and has additional credits including the television films *Donato and Daughter* (1993) and *Phone Calls from the Dead* (1996).

*Sources: everything.explained.today, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Armageddon* (1998), Fi1m 64, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/armageddon.md)
- *Outbreak* (1995), Fi1m 66, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/outbreak.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Armageddon* (1998), Story — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/armageddon.md)
- *Outbreak* (1995), Screenplay — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/outbreak.md)
- *Donato and Daughter* (1993), Teleplay
- *The Big Town* (1987), Screenplay

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/robert-roy-pool