Roger Corman
Personal Info
Known For
Production
Known Credits
149
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-04-05
Day of death
2024-05-09 (98 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Roger Corman
Biography
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.
Known For
Beverly Hills, 90210
The Practice
The Godfather Part II
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Biography
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
The Movies That Made Us
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
Blood Bath
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Apollo 13
Hollywood Gangster
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Scream 3
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Philadelphia
Dinoshark
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Extraordinary Tales
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Swing Shift
The Silence of the Lambs
The Manchurian Candidate
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Sharktopus
Cannonball
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Horror Cafe
Runaway Daughters
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
The Fast and the Furious
Target: Harry
Sharksploitation
A Decade Under the Influence
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
The State of Things
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
The Second Civil War
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
The Wasp Woman
Corman's World
The Howling
Martin Scorsese Directs
Lords of the Deep
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Hollywood Boulevard II
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Rachel Getting Married
Tales of the Uncanny
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Ski Troop Attack
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
The Wicker Man Enigma
From Manila with Love
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
Day the World Ended
The Perfect Scary Movie
Some Nudity Required
War of the Satellites
La última película de Jess Franco
The Young Racers
100 Years of Horror
Z Dead End
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Spector
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
A Century of Cinema
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
The Horror of It All
A History of Horror
All the Love You Cannes!
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Battle of Blood Island
Body Bags
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
The Phantom Eye
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Atlas
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Behind the Swinging Blade
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
E! True Hollywood Story
Kings of Cult
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
In Hock & Staying There
It Came From Connemara!
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Ivan, the TerrirBle
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Hot Car Girl
Cry Baby Killer
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
The Independent
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
The Sci-Fi Boys
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
SEGAL
The True Story of Hannibal
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
The Dark Side of Hollywood
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
The Devil Ant
Monster from the Ocean Floor
Sodankylä Forever
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
That Guy Dick Miller
Naked Paradise
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
First Works
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Popatopolis
Tidal Wave
Horror!!!
Greetings from Tromaville!
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Sodankylä Forever
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
Il cinema secondo Corman
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Lost Explorer
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Ticket to Hollywood
Searchers 2.0
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
Remembering 'The Intruder'
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Corman's Comedy of Poe
