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8 unusual facts about Road To Perdition


Eric Rigler

He has been featured playing Great Highland bagpipes, Uilleann pipes and tin whistle on numerous movie soundtracks, including Titanic, Million Dollar Baby, Road to Perdition, Braveheart, Cinderella Man, Robots, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, DreamWorks's The Prince of Egypt, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World and critically acclaimed South Korean TV series Jewel in the Palace.

Harrison McEldowney

McEldowney contributed choreography to the films Road to Perdition, Children on Their Birthdays (uncredited), and the independent film Vanilla City.

JoBe Cerny

In addition to appearing in advertising spots and commercials, Cerny has appeared in numerous films, including Legally Blonde 2 (2003), Road to Perdition (2002), and My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).

John Patrick Looney

Looney served as the model for John Looney, a major character in Max Allan Collins' graphic novel Road to Perdition.

John Rodd

Films worked on while on staff as Orchestral Scoring Recordist at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox include I, Robot, The Last Samurai, Spider-Man 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix (trilogy), Cast Away, X-2, Jurassic Park III, The Bourne Identity, Road to Perdition and The Sixth Sense.

Leslee Feldman

Leslee Feldman is the Head of Casting at Dreamworks, the studio which produced such films as Shrek, The Prince of Egypt, Road to Perdition and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, among others.

Oridathoru Postman

The background score of this movie is copied from film Road to Perdition.

Steve Tavaglione

Tavaglione lives in Southern California, and is a leading studio musician for television programs such as CSI, CSI: NY and Charmed, and films including The Good German, Alpha Dog, Bridge to Terabithia, Finding Nemo, Road to Perdition, American Beauty.


Conrad Hall

Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films such as In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, and Road to Perdition.

Serenity in Fire

The spoken passage in the track The Ambassador of Pain is a quote from Paul Newman's character in the film, Road To Perdition.


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