Manuel Lee Roth (November 25, 1919 – July 25, 2014) was an American nightclub owner and entertainment entrepreneur.

Roth was a navigator in bombing missions in Germany, earning the Distinguished Flying Cross.

[2] After leaving the Army, he stayed in Germany and helped manage a United Service Organization theater.

[2] In the 1950s, Roth started the Cock and Bull, a Broadway-themed club in Greenwich Village in New York, which eventually became The Bitter End.

provided a launching place for amateur music and comedy acts including Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, The Velvet Underground, Cat Mother & the All Night Newsboys, Kool & the Gang, Peter, Paul and Mary, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Bill Cosby, and Richard Pryor.