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

  • Special Effects

    Special Effects

  • Spies Like Us

    Spies Like Us

  • BaadAsssss Cinema

    BaadAsssss Cinema

  • The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

    The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

  • 100 Scariest Movie Moments

    100 Scariest Movie Moments

  • Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

    Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

  • Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

    Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

  • Hitchcocked!

    Hitchcocked!

  • King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

    King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

  • Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

    Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

  • In Search of Darkness: Part II

    In Search of Darkness: Part II

  • Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

    Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

  • Making of Phone Booth

    Making of Phone Booth

  • Tales from the Script

    Tales from the Script

  • In Search of Darkness

    In Search of Darkness

  • Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood

    Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood

  • Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

    Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

  • Masters of the Grind

    Masters of the Grind

  • 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

    42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

  • House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

    House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

  • American Grindhouse

    American Grindhouse

  • Prohibition Opens the Floodgates

    Prohibition Opens the Floodgates

  • Welcome to the Big House

    Welcome to the Big House

  • Hollywood Rated 'R'

    Hollywood Rated 'R'

  • Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

    Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

  • The Fear is Real

    The Fear is Real

  • Shooting the Police: Cops on Film

    Shooting the Police: Cops on Film

  • Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell

    Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell