Known For
Production
Born
Apr 05, 1926
Died
May 09, 2024
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Credits
593 titles
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
Filmography
All My Friends Are Back In Brisbane
Production Assistant
Il cinema secondo Corman
Self
SEGAL
Self
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
Himself
Occupy Cannes!
Executive Producer
DinoGator
Executive Producer
Sharksploitation
Self
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
Himself
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer
Lost Explorer
Jean
Spector
Self
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Self
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Self (archive footage)
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Self
Tales of the Uncanny
Self
Ivan, the TerrirBle
Self (archive footage)
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Self
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Self
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
Self
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Self
The Movies That Made Us
Self
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
Himself
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
Self
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Abduction
Producer
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Self
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Self
Greetings from Tromaville!
Self
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Self
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Death Race 2050
Producer
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Himself
Kings of Cult
self
Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
Producer
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
Himself
Extraordinary Tales
Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Self
Fist of the Dragon
Producer
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
Producer
It Came From Connemara!
Self
Water Wars
Art Direction
Behind the Swinging Blade
Self
That Guy Dick Miller
Self
Operation Rogue
Producer
La última película de Jess Franco
Self
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie