Larry Cohen
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
28
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-07-15
Day of death
2019-03-24 (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
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
BaadAsssss Cinema
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
100 Scariest Movie Moments
Hitchcocked!
American Grindhouse
Spies Like Us
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Special Effects
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
In Search of Darkness
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Hollywood Rated 'R'
In Search of Darkness: Part II
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Tales from the Script
Masters of the Grind
Making of Phone Booth
The Fear is Real
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
Welcome to the Big House
