Larry Cohen
Born
July 15, 1941
Died
March 24, 2019 (77 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
Kingston, New York, USA
Lawrence George Cohen (July 15, 1941 – March 23, 2019) was an American screenwriter, producer, and director of film and television, best known as a B-movie auteur of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and satirical elements — during the 1970s and 1980s, such as It's Alive (1974), God Told Me To (1976), It Lives Again (1978), The Stuff (1985) and A Return to Salem's Lot (1987). After that, he concentrated mainly on screenwriting, including Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007).
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Known For
Masters of the Grind
Self
2023
In Search of Darkness: Part II
Self
2020
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Self
2020
In Search of Darkness
Self
2019
The Fear is Real
Self
2018
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Self
2018
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
Self
2017
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Himself
2015
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
2013
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011
American Grindhouse
Himself
2011
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Self
2009
Tales from the Script
Self
2009
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self
2006
Welcome to the Big House
Self
2006
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
Self
2006
Hitchcocked!
Self
2006
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Self
2006
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Self
2006
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Self
2006
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Self
2005
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Self
2004
100 Scariest Movie Moments
Self · (5 episodes)
2004
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
2002
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Self
1997
Spies Like Us
Ace Tomato Agent
1985
Special Effects
Journalist (uncredited)
1984