Known For
Directing
Born
Jul 15, 1941
Died
Mar 23, 2019
Place of Birth
Kingston, New York, USA
Credits
105 titles
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
Filmography
Masters of the Grind
Self
In Search of Darkness: Part II
Self
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Self
In Search of Darkness
Self
The Fear Is Real
Self
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
Self
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
Self
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
American Grindhouse
Himself
Messages Deleted
Writer
It's Alive
Screenplay
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Self
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
Writer
Tales from the Script
Self
Connected
Original Story
Captivity
Writer
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self
Welcome to the Big House
Self
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
Self
Hitchcocked!
Self
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Self
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Self
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Self
Pick Me Up
Director
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Self
Masters of Horror
Director
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
Self
100 Scariest Movie Moments
Self
Cellular
Story
Celling Out
Self
Dialing Up "Cellular"
Self
Making of Phone Booth
Self
Phone Booth
Screenplay
BaadAsssss Cinema
Self
Misbegotten
Screenplay
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
Story
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Self
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave
Teleplay
The Ex
Screenplay
Invasion of Privacy
Writer
Uncle Sam
Writer
Original Gangstas
Director
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice
Teleplay
The Invaders
Creator
The Invaders
Characters
The Expert
Writer
As Good As Dead
Writer
The Tourist
Original Story