Larry Cohen
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
28
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-07-15
Day of death
2019-03-23 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Kingston, New York, USA
Larry Cohen
Biography
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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
Spies Like Us
BaadAsssss Cinema
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
American Grindhouse
Special Effects
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
100 Scariest Movie Moments
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
In Search of Darkness
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
In Search of Darkness: Part II
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Tales from the Script
The Fear is Real
Hitchcocked!
Making of Phone Booth
Masters of the Grind
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Welcome to the Big House
