Roger Corman
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.
Born: 05 April 1926 • Died: 09 May 2024
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Il cinema secondo Corman
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SEGAL
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Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
Himself
Sharksploitation
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The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
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Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer
Lost Explorer
Jean
Spector
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Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
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Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
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Tales of the Uncanny
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Ivan, the TerrirBle
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Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
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Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
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AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
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The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
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Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
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The Movies That Made Us
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CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
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Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
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The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
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The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Memory: The Origins of Alien
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Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
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Greetings from Tromaville!
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Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Himself
Kings of Cult
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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
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It Came From Connemara!
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Behind the Swinging Blade
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That Guy Dick Miller
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La última película de Jess Franco
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Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
Dean Hinkle
Corman's World
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Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
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From Manila with Love
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Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
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Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
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Conan
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Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
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Machete Maidens Unleashed!
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A History of Horror
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Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
Himself (archive footage)
Sharktopus
Beach Bum
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
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Sodankylä Forever
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Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
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Dinoshark
Dr. Frank Reeves
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
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Popatopolis
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Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
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Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
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Hollywood Gangster
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The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
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Rachel Getting Married
Wedding Guest
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
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Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
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Searchers 2.0
Producer (Flashback)
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
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The Sci-Fi Boys
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Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
The Perfect Scary Movie
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The True Story of Hannibal
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Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
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The Manchurian Candidate
Mr. Secretary
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
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Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Hollywood Director
Corman's Comedy of Poe
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A Decade Under the Influence
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
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All the Love You Cannes!
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
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Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
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The Wicker Man Enigma
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Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
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Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
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It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
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Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
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Remembering 'The Intruder'
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The Independent
Roger Corman
Scream 3
Studio Executive
The Phantom Eye
Dr. Gorman
The Devil Ant
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Some Nudity Required
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The Dark Side of Hollywood
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
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The Second Civil War
Sandy Collins
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
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The Practice
John Matlin
100 Years of Horror
Self - Interview
E! True Hollywood Story
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
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Apollo 13
Congressman
Runaway Daughters
Mr. Randolph
Rebel Highway
Mr. Randolph
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
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A Century of Cinema
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Philadelphia
Mr. Laird
Body Bags
Dr. Bregman
The Horror Hall of Fame II
Self - Inductee
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
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The Silence of the Lambs
FBI Director Hayden Burke
Hollywood Boulevard II
Roger Corman
Beverly Hills, 90210
Roger Corman
Martin Scorsese Directs
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Horror Cafe
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First Works
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Lords of the Deep
Corporate executive (uncredited)
Biography
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Out of the Blue and Into the Black
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Ticket to Hollywood
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Swing Shift
Mr. MacBride
The Horror of It All
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The State of Things
The Lawyer
The Howling
Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
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Cannonball
District Attorney
Tidal Wave
President of the United States (voice)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
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The Godfather Part II
Senator #2
Target: Harry
Man on Phone
Blood Bath
Antonio Sordi (in flashback) (uncredited)
Horror!!!
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The Young Racers
Man Outside Monaco Hotel (uncredited)
Atlas
Greek Soldier (uncredited)
Battle of Blood Island
Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)
Ski Troop Attack
German Officer (uncredited)
The Wasp Woman
Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Hot Car Girl
Cop Who Finds Note (uncredited)
Cry Baby Killer
Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)
War of the Satellites
Ground Control (uncredited)
Naked Paradise
Office Worker (uncredited)
Day the World Ended
Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)
The Fast and the Furious
Roadblock State Trooper (uncredited)
Monster from the Ocean Floor
Tommy (uncredited)
In Hock & Staying There
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
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Z Dead End
Rumored
Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
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