BIRTH 05/04/1926
DEATH 09/05/2024
Country United States
SHOWS 7
MOVIES 43
DIRECTOR 36
SCRIPT 3
PRODUCTION 208

Roger Corman

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 King of The B’s”, "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.

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Shows (7)

Beverly Hills, 90210

Roger Corman

The Movies That Made Us

Self

The Practice

John Matlin

The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs

Self

Biography

Self

Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood

Self

A History of Horror with Mark Gatiss

Self

Movies (43)

The Silence of the Lambs

FBI Director Hayden Burke

Scream 3

Studio Executive

Philadelphia

Mr. Laird

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Hollywood Director

Rachel Getting Married

Wedding Guest

Memory: The Origins of Alien

Self

The Fast and the Furious

Roadblock State Trooper (uncredited)

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie…

Self

Sharktopus

Beach Bum

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Self

The Second Civil War

Sandy Collins

Dinoshark

Dr. Frank Reeves

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

Self

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The…

Self

Z Dead End

Rumored

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Self

Cry Baby Killer

Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)

Corman's World

Self - Filmmaker

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's…

Himself

Tales of the Uncanny

Self

Extraordinary Tales

Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer

Der Stand der Dinge

The Lawyer

Atlas

Greek Soldier (uncredited)

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n'…

Self

Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight…

Self

Target: Harry

Man on Phone

Lords of the Deep

Corporate executive (uncredited)

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

Self

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Self

Day the World Ended

Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)

A Century of Cinema

Self

The Independent

Roger Corman

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of…

Self

That Guy Dick Miller

Self

Runaway Daughters

Mr. Randolph

Horror!!!

Self

All the Love You Cannes!

Self

The Wasp Woman

Hospital Doctor (uncredited)

Ski Troop Attack

German Officer (uncredited)

Ivan, O TerrirVel

Self (archive footage)

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

Self

Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber…

Himself (archive footage)

Director (36)

The Little Shop of Horrors

House of Usher

The Raven

Bloody Mama

The Masque of the Red Death

The Secret Invasion

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Haunted Palace

A Time for Killing

Von Richthofen and Brown

The Tomb of Ligeia

The Trip

The Intruder

Atlas

Not of This Earth

Frankenstein Unbound

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their…

The Premature Burial

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Machine-Gun Kelly

Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the…

The Terror

The Undead

Target: Harry

Tales of Terror

Last Woman on Earth

Ski Troop Attack

Day the World Ended

Attack of the Crab Monsters

The Wasp Woman

Sorority Girl

Tower of London

A Bucket of Blood

The Wild Angels

De Sade

Script (3)

The Little Shop of Horrors

The Fast and the Furious

Frankenstein Unbound

Production (208)

Death Race

Death Race 2

Death Race: Inferno

Piranha

The Slumber Party Massacre

The Fantastic Four

The Little Shop of Horrors

Death Race 2000

House of Usher

The Fast and the Furious

The Raven

Boxcar Bertha

Mon oncle d'Amérique

Bloody Mama

Sharktopus

Battle Beyond the Stars

Dementia 13

Piranhaconda

The Masque of the Red Death

Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Haunted Palace

Capone

Cannonball

Death Race 2050

L'isola degli uomini pesce

Chopping Mall

The Big Bird Cage

Dead Space

Blackbelt

Slumber Party Massacre II

Rock 'n' Roll High School

Dinoshark

Fire on the Amazon

Targets

Ride in the Whirlwind

Humanoids from the Deep

Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia

Bloodfist II

Fly Me

The Intruder

The Tomb of Ligeia

Thunder and Lightning

Food of the Gods II

Barbarian Queen

Women in Cages

The Shooting

Deathstalker

Piranha

Night Call Nurses

Watchers

Overdrive

The Big Doll House

Hollywood Boulevard

The Evil

The Hot Box

The Dunwich Horror

Big Bad Mama II

The Trip

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

God Told Me To

Dillinger and Capone

Galaxy of Terror

Big Bad Mama

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

Emmanuelle 6

La figlia di Frankenstein

Munchies

Cockfighter

Avalanche

The Hunt for Eagle One

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Attack of the Giant Leeches

The Premature Burial

Not of This Earth

Suburbia

The Lady in Red

I Escaped from Devil's Island

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

Munchie

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their…

The Arena

Watchers Reborn

Il castello dalle porte di fuoco

Caged Heat

Time Under Fire

The Warrior and the Sorceress

Cyclops

Wolfhound

Frankenstein Unbound

The Rain Killer

School Spirit

Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf

Machine-Gun Kelly

Streetwalkin'

Atlas

Not of This Earth

Cry Baby Killer

The Bees

The Final Comedown

Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans

Camel Spiders

Cheyenne Warrior

Android

Shogun Assassin

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Humanoids from the Deep

The Terror

Bloodfist

TNT Jackson

Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the…

White Star

Bloodfist IV: Die Trying

Carnosaur 3: Primal Species

The Undead

Down and Dirty Duck

The Brain Eaters

Grotesque

Dinocroc

Last Woman on Earth

Sweet Revenge

Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time

Black Scorpion II: Aftershock

Forbidden World

Sorority House Massacre

Operation Rogue

Cry of the Winged Serpent

Bloodfist V: Human Target

Pit Stop

Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders

Watchers II

Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom

Target: Harry

Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight

Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill

Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero

The Unborn II

Dragon Fire

Raptor

Sting of the Black Scorpion

Born Bad

The Liars' Club

The Unborn

The Capitol Conspiracy

Silk 2

Cocaine Wars

Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys

The Terror Within II

The Terror Within

Lords of the Deep

Operation Cobra

Marquis de Sade

Carnosaur 2

Black Scorpion

Space Raiders

Avalanche Alley

Dinocroc vs. Supergator

Supergator

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

ＫＹＯＫＯ

Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure

T-Bird Gang

Firefight

The Haunting of Morella

Carnosaur

Queen of Blood

Alien Avengers II

Alien Avengers

Stripped to Kill

A Very Unlucky Leprechaun

Think Big

Stealing Las Vegas

Future Fear

Jackson County Jail

A Bucket of Blood

Sorority Girl

Not of This Earth

Shakedown

Attack of the Crab Monsters

The Wild Angels

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

Terminal Virus

One Night Stand

Day the World Ended

Ski Troop Attack

Virtually Heroes

The Wasp Woman

Caged Heat 3000

Up from the Depths

Street Fighter 2050

Future Kick

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Sorceress

Leopard in the Snow

Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold

Tales of Terror

Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell

Dune Warriors

White Wolves - A Cry in the Wild II

Bloodfist 7: Manhunt

Watchers III

Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Saint Jack

Munchie Strikes Back

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

Deathsport

Grand Theft Auto

Murder by Phone

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