Roger Corman
Personal Info
Known For
Production
Known Credits
144
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
Scream 3
Apollo 13
Lords of the Deep
The Manchurian Candidate
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
The Movies That Made Us
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
The Silence of the Lambs
Ski Troop Attack
Extraordinary Tales
Swing Shift
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
The Horror of It All
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Philadelphia
The Wasp Woman
The Young Racers
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
A Decade Under the Influence
In Hock & Staying There
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
The Cry Baby Killer
Battle of Blood Island
Hollywood Boulevard II
The Second Civil War
Blood Bath
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
Rachel Getting Married
Hollywood Gangster
Dinoshark
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
The Howling
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
Z Dead End
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Cannonball
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
Body Bags
Day the World Ended
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
The Sci-Fi Boys
The Wicker Man Enigma
Corman's World
Ticket to Hollywood
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
The State of Things
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
The Perfect Scary Movie
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
All the Love You Cannes!
Tidal Wave
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Martin Scorsese Directs
The Dark Side of Hollywood
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
Runaway Daughters
A History of Horror
Sharktopus
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
From Manila with Love
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Horror Cafe
The Fast and the Furious
Edgar G. Ulmer – Der Mann im Off
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Sodankylä Forever
Sharksploitation
Some Nudity Required
E! True Hollywood Story
Spector
The Independent
The Phantom Eye
First Works
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
War of the Satellites
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
Popatopolis
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
It Came From Connemara!
Tales of the Uncanny
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
SEGAL
La última película de Jess Franco
Target: Harry
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
A Century of Cinema
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Ivan, the TerrirBle
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
Kings of Cult
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
The True Story of Hannibal
The Devil Ant
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Behind the Swinging Blade
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Atlas
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Naked Paradise
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1
Horror!!!
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
Lost Explorer
Hot Car Girl
Monster from the Ocean Floor
Searchers 2.0
That Guy Dick Miller
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
Greetings from Tromaville!
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Weird Night
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Corman's Comedy of Poe
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Remembering 'The Intruder'
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
