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

The Second Civil War

Sandy Collins

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Self

Dinoshark

Dr. Frank Reeves

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The…

Self

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

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 Fantastic Four

The Slumber Party Massacre

The Little Shop of Horrors

The Fast and the Furious

Death Race 2000

House of Usher

The Raven

Boxcar Bertha

Mon oncle d'Amérique

Piranhaconda

Battle Beyond the Stars

Sharktopus

Bloody Mama

Cannonball

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Masque of the Red Death

Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda

Dementia 13

Capone

The Haunted Palace

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

Fire on the Amazon

Dinoshark

Targets

Ride in the Whirlwind

Humanoids from the Deep

Night Call Nurses

Deathstalker

Fly Me

The Intruder

Thunder and Lightning

The Tomb of Ligeia

Bloodfist II

Piranha

Women in Cages

The Evil

Watchers

Overdrive

The Big Doll House

The Shooting

Hollywood Boulevard

Barbarian Queen

Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia

The Hot Box

Galaxy of Terror

Dillinger and Capone

Big Bad Mama

The Trip

Big Bad Mama II

God Told Me To

The Dunwich Horror

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

Food of the Gods II

Munchies

The Warrior and the Sorceress

Time Under Fire

Watchers Reborn

Il castello dalle porte di fuoco

Munchie

The Bees

I Escaped from Devil's Island

Suburbia

The Premature Burial

Attack of the Giant Leeches

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Emmanuelle 6

Frankenstein Unbound

Atlas

Bloodfist IV: Die Trying

Streetwalkin'

Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans

Cheyenne Warrior

Shogun Assassin

The Rain Killer

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Bloodfist

Camel Spiders

The Lady in Red

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their…

Caged Heat

Wolfhound

The Arena

The Hunt for Eagle One

White Star

Not of This Earth

Avalanche

The Terror

Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf

Humanoids from the Deep

Carnosaur 3: Primal Species

The Final Comedown

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

TNT Jackson

Not of This Earth

Machine-Gun Kelly

La figlia di Frankenstein

Cry Baby Killer

Android

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

Cyclops

Cockfighter

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

School Spirit

Future Fear

Sorority House Massacre

Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys

Stealing Las Vegas

The Brain Eaters

The Terror Within II

The Terror Within

Sweet Revenge

Raptor

A Very Unlucky Leprechaun

Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time

Cry of the Winged Serpent

Grotesque

The Undead

Think Big

Cocaine Wars

Dinocroc

Down and Dirty Duck

Supergator

Silk 2

Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight

Tales of Terror

Shakedown

Pit Stop

Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders

Not of This Earth

Watchers II

Sorority Girl

Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom

Target: Harry

A Bucket of Blood

The Unborn

Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill

Jackson County Jail

Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero

The Unborn II

Bloodfist V: Human Target

Dragon Fire

Stripped to Kill

Sting of the Black Scorpion

Born Bad

The Liars' Club

Alien Avengers

The Capitol Conspiracy

Last Woman on Earth

Deathsport

White Wolves - A Cry in the Wild II

Bloodfist 7: Manhunt

Watchers III

Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Firefight

Saint Jack

T-Bird Gang

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

Munchie Strikes Back

Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure

Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell

Grand Theft Auto

Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold

The Wild Angels

ＫＹＯＫＯ

Queen of Blood

Attack of the Crab Monsters

Black Scorpion

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

Space Raiders

Avalanche Alley

Dune Warriors

Operation Rogue

Black Scorpion II: Aftershock

Ski Troop Attack

Forbidden World

Alien Avengers II

Lords of the Deep

Dinocroc vs. Supergator

Marquis de Sade

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

One Night Stand

The Haunting of Morella

Carnosaur

Day the World Ended

Virtually Heroes

Operation Cobra

The Wasp Woman

Caged Heat 3000

Up from the Depths

Street Fighter 2050

Carnosaur 2

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Future Kick

Sorceress

Terminal Virus

Leopard in the Snow

Murder by Phone

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