Known For
Acting
Born
Feb 04, 1948
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Credits
194 titles
Alice Cooper
Biography
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal. He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Known For
Filmography
Frampton
Dreams
Self
The Yardbirds: In Their Own Words
Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
Self
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
Jonathan & Jesus
Self
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
Self
Spooktacular!
Self
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
Self
Hollywood Vampires: Live In Rio
Lead & Backing Vocals / Harmonica / Rhythm Guitar
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Self
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self - Presenter
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
Self
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)
Self - Vocals
Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting
Self
No Cover
Self
Rock this Town
Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
Self
The History of Metal and Horror
Self
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage)
Rock Camp: The Movie
Self
Zappa
Self (archive footage)
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives
Self
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Self (archive footage)
Power Hour
Self
Laurel Canyon
Self
Reunited Apart
Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
Stars in the House
Self
Duncanville
Alice Cooper
Suzi Q
Self
House of Cardin
Self
Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf
Self
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Self - Musician
Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean
Self
Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik
Self
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
Self
Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Self
Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018
Self
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
King Herod
The Top Ten Revealed
Self
Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris
Self
Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017
Self - Vocals
Glam Rock at the BBC
Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017
Self - Vocals
Hired Gun
Self
Cum On Feel The Noize
Self