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Roger Corman
Born · April 5, 1926
Died · May 9, 2024 (98 years old)
Known For: Production
Place of Birth: Detroit, Michigan, USA
Bio
Roger William Corman (April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024) was an American film director, producer and actor. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of the more than 500 features directed or produced by Corman were low-budget films that later attracted a cult following, such as The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Intruder (1962), X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), and the counterculture films, The Wild Angels (1966) and The Trip (1967). House of Usher (1960) became the first of eight films directed by Corman that were adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and which collectively came to be known as the "Poe Cycle". In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, the founder of New Concorde and was a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers". Corman was also famous for handling the U.S. distribution of many films by noted foreign directors, including Federico Fellini (Italy), Ingmar Bergman (Sweden), François Truffaut (France) and Akira Kurosawa (Japan). He mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Corman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Sharksploitation
Self
0.0
2024
Lost Explorer
Jean
0.0
2023
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Self (archive footage)
4.0
2021
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Self
6.0
2021
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Self
6.8
2020
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
6.0
2018
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Self
0.0
2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
7.2
2017
Kings of Cult
self
7.5
2015
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
Himself
6.7
2015
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Self
6.0
2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
Self
0.0
2014
That Guy Dick Miller
Self
7.0
2014
La última película de Jess Franco
Self
6.0
2013
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
7.9
2013
Extraordinary Tales
Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
6.4
2013
Corman's World
Self - Filmmaker
7.1
2011
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
Self
7.7
2011
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
Self
8.3
2010
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Self
6.8
2010
Sharktopus
Beach Bum
4.2
2010
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Self
6.8
2010
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Self
6.6
2009
Popatopolis
Himself
6.6
2009
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
Self
5.0
2009
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
Himself
5.0
2009
Hollywood Gangster
Self
0.0
2008
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)
6.8
2008
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Self
6.8
2007
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Self
6.9
2007
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Self
5.0
2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Self
9.0
2007
The Sci-Fi Boys
Self
7.0
2006
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
6.8
2005
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Self
6.8
2004
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Hollywood Director
6.3
2003
Corman's Comedy of Poe
Himself
0.0
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
7.1
2003
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Self
0.0
2001
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Self
6.8
2001
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Himself
7.0
2001
The Independent
Roger Corman
5.6
2000
Scream 3
Studio Executive
6.0
2000
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Self
0.0
1998
Apollo 13
Congressman
7.5
1995
Weird Night
0.0
1994
Runaway Daughters
Mr. Randolph
6.0
1994
Body Bags
Dr. Bregman
6.1
1993
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Self
0.0
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
FBI Director Hayden Burke
8.3
1991
The Horror of It All
Self
8.0
1983
The State of Things
The Lawyer
6.5
1982
The Howling
Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
6.6
1981
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Self
7.4
1978
Cannonball
District Attorney
5.5
1976
The Godfather Part II
Senator #2
8.6
1974
Atlas
Greek Soldier (uncredited)
2.8
1961
The Fast and the Furious
Roadblock State Trooper
4.8
1954
In Hock & Staying There
Himself
0.0
The Wasp Woman
Hospital Doctor
4.3
1959
War of the Satellites
Ground Control (uncredited)
5.2
1958
Naked Paradise
Office Worker (uncredited)
3.8
1957
Monster from the Ocean Floor
Tommy
3.4
1954
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Self
0.0
Philadelphia
Mr. Laird
7.7
1993
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
0.0
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
Himself · (1 episode)
0.0
2024
Spector
Self · (4 episodes)
6.2
2022
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
Self
8.0
2022
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
(1 episode)
6.0
2022
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
8.0
2021
A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus
Self
0.0
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
Self
7.1
2020
Ivan, the TerrirBle
Self (archive footage)
1.0
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Self
6.4
2020
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS
Self
6.0
2020
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1
Self
0.0
2020
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Self
10.0
2020
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Self
0.0
2011
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
Himself (archive footage)
4.5
2010
The Perfect Scary Movie
Self
7.5
2005
The True Story of Hannibal
Self - Producer
6.7
2005
Swing Shift
Mr. MacBride
5.7
1984
Segal
Self
0.0
The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman
Self
6.0
1999
Z Dead End
Rumored
0.0
The Movies That Made Us
Self · (1 episode)
7.2
2019
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
Himself · (13 episodes)
9.0
2019
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
Self
7.0
2019
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
(1 episode)
7.2
2019
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Self · (1 episode)
7.2
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Self
6.2
2019
Greetings from Tromaville!
Himself
0.0
2017
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Himself
10.0
2015
It Came From Connemara!
Self
4.5
2014
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
Dean Hinkle
5.6
2012
From Manila with Love
Himself
0.0
2011
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Self · (7 episodes)
4.7
2010
A History of Horror
Self · (3 episodes)
7.5
2010
Sodankylä Forever
Self
0.0
2010
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Self
2.0
2010
Dinoshark
Dr. Frank Reeves
4.3
2010
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Himself
0.0
2008
Rachel Getting Married
Wedding Guest
6.3
2008
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Self
7.8
2007
Searchers 2.0
Producer (Flashback)
6.2
2007
The Manchurian Candidate
Mr. Secretary
6.5
2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Self
6.0
2004
Leçon de Cinéma
(1 episode)
7.0
2004
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
8.0
2003
All the Love You Cannes!
Self
6.4
2002
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Himself
7.0
2001
The Wicker Man Enigma
Himself
6.7
2001
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Self
7.3
2001
Remembering 'The Intruder'
Himself
0.0
2001
The Phantom Eye
Dr. Gorman
8.0
1999
Some Nudity Required
Himself
5.0
1998
The Dark Side of Hollywood
0.0
1998
The Second Civil War
Sandy Collins
6.2
1997
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Self
6.4
1997
The Practice
John Matlin · (1 episode)
7.7
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
(1 episode)
8.0
1996
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
Self
0.0
1996
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Self
7.5
1994
A Century of Cinema
Self
8.0
1994
Hollywood Boulevard II
Roger Corman
3.8
1991
Beverly Hills, 90210
(1 episode)
7.4
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
Self
9.0
1990
Horror Cafe
Self
8.5
1990
First Works
Self
0.0
1989
Lords of the Deep
Corporate executive (uncredited)
2.9
1989
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Self
0.0
1987
Ticket to Hollywood
Self
0.0
1984
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Self · (1 episode)
6.0
1975
Target: Harry
Man on Phone
5.6
1969
Horror!!!
Self
1.0
1964
Battle of Blood Island
Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)
4.9
1960
Ski Troop Attack
German Officer (uncredited)
4.5
1960
The Cry Baby Killer
Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)
5.4
1958
Day the World Ended
Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)
5.0
1955