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Name
Roger Corman

Known For
Production

Birthday
1926-04-05

Deathday
2024-05-09 (98 years old)

Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA

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

Movies

Tv Shows

1974 The Godfather Part II as Senator #2
1991 The Silence of the Lambs as FBI Director Hayden Burke
1995 Apollo 13 as Congressman
2017 Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2000 Scream 3 as Studio Executive
1954 The Fast and the Furious as Roadblock State Trooper (uncredited)
1982 The State of Things as The Lawyer
1976 Cannonball as District Attorney
1981 The Howling as Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
Soon In Hock & Staying There as Himself
1993 Body Bags as Dr. Bregman
1959 The Wasp Woman as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
2009 Popatopolis as Himself
1957 Naked Paradise as Office Worker (uncredited)
1954 Monster from the Ocean Floor as Tommy (uncredited)
1958 War of the Satellites as Ground Control (uncredited)
1961 Atlas as Greek Soldier (uncredited)
1983 The Horror of It All as Self
2008 Hollywood Gangster as Self
2009 Nightmares in Red, White and Blue as Self
2010 Sharktopus as Beach Bum
2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
2010 Machete Maidens Unleashed! as Self
2000 The Independent as Roger Corman
2001 Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies as Himself
2011 Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker
2020 Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp as Self
2006 The Sci-Fi Boys as Self
2010 With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story as Self
2021 Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema as Self
2024 Sharksploitation as Self
2007 Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows as Self
2009 Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman as Self
2013 Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
1998 Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
2003 Corman's Comedy of Poe as Himself
2015 Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four as Himself
2013 La última película de Jess Franco as Self
2005 Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
1994 Runaway Daughters as Mr. Randolph
1978 Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel as Self
2014 Behind the Swinging Blade as Self
Soon I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni as Self
2001 It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures as Self
2014 That Guy Dick Miller as Self
2018 Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2 as Self
1993 Philadelphia as Mr. Laird
2009 Direct Your Own Damn Movie! as Self
1991 Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper as Self
2007 Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman as Self
2004 Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen as Self
Soon Mary Woronov: Cult Queen as Self
2007 Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project as Self
1960 Battle of Blood Island as Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)
2007 Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute as Self
2010 Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror as Self
2014 Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins as Self
2008 Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound as Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)
2015 Extraordinary Tales as Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
2001 Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties as Self
1987 Out of the Blue and Into the Black as Self
2017 Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur as Self
2015 Kings of Cult as self
1969 Target: Harry as Man on Phone
2021 Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! as Self (archive footage)
2011 Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective as Self
2023 Lost Explorer as Jean
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action as Hollywood Director
1989 Lords of the Deep as Corporate executive (uncredited)
1998 Some Nudity Required as Himself
1989 Hollywood Boulevard II as Roger Corman
2002 All the Love You Cannes! as Self
2001 Remembering 'The Intruder' as Self
1997 Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain as Self
2008 Rachel Getting Married as Wedding Guest
2015 It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story as Self
2011 From Manila with Love as Himself
2004 Mario Bava: Operazione paura as Self
1990 Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
1990 Horror Cafe as Self
2008 The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff as Himself
1989 First Works as Self
2001 Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' as Self
1998 The Dark Side of Hollywood
2017 Greetings from Tromaville! as Self
2014 It Came From Connemara! as Self
1999 The Phantom Eye as Dr. Gorman
2007 Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story as Self
2019 Memory: The Origins of Alien as Self
1994 The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters as Self
1997 The Second Civil War as Sandy Collins
1958 Cry Baby Killer as Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)
2004 The Manchurian Candidate as Mr. Secretary
2019 Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson as Self
2001 Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man as Himself
1994 A Century of Cinema as Self
2012 Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader as Dean Hinkle
2020 Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy as Self
2020 AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1 as Self
2020 AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis as Self
2020 Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi as Self
2001 The Wicker Man Enigma as Himself
2010 Searchers 2.0 as Producer (Flashback)
2010 Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man as Self
2005 The True Story of Hannibal as Self - Producer
1984 Swing Shift as Mr. MacBride
2005 The Perfect Scary Movie as Self
2020 Tales of the Uncanny as Self
2025 SEGAL as Self
Soon Z Dead End as Rumored
1955 Day the World Ended as Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)
2010 Dinoshark as Dr. Frank Reeves
2010 Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres as Himself (archive footage)
1960 Ski Troop Attack as German Officer (uncredited)
1984 Ticket to Hollywood as Self
1964 Horror!!! as Self
2011 Produce Your Own Damn Movie! as Self
2021 Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster as Self
2003 A Decade Under the Influence as Self
1996 Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2 as Self
2020 Ivan, the TerrirBle as Self (archive footage)
1975 Tidal Wave as President of the United States (voice)
2002 Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film as Self (uncredited)
2020 The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault as (archive footage)
1999 The Devil Ant as Himself
1958 Hot Car Girl as Cop Who Finds Note (uncredited)
1963 The Young Racers as Man Outside Monaco Hotel (uncredited)
1966 Blood Bath as Antonio Sordi (in flashback) (uncredited)
2025 Il cinema secondo Corman as Self
2025 Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen as Himself
Soon Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina as Entrevistado
2024 Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master as Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer
1991 The Horror Hall of Fame II as Self - Inductee

1990 Beverly Hills, 90210 ( 1 episode ) as Roger Corman
1996 E! True Hollywood Story ( 1 episode )
1997 The Practice ( 1 episode ) as John Matlin
2010 Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood ( 7 episodes ) as Self
2019 The Movies That Made Us ( 1 episode ) as Self
2010 A History of Horror ( 3 episodes ) as Self
2022 Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow ( 1 episode )
2024 The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman ( 1 episode ) as Himself
1975 Les Rendez-vous du dimanche ( 1 episode ) as Self
2022 Spector ( 4 episodes ) as Self
2019 CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman ( 13 episodes ) as Himself
2019 The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs ( 1 episode )
2019 The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs ( 1 episode ) as Self
1987 Biography ( 1 episode ) as Self
1996 100 Years of Horror ( 26 episodes ) as Self - Interview
2010 Sodankylä Forever ( 4 episodes ) as Self
1994 Rebel Highway ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Randolph
2010 Conan ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2020 Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time ( 1 episode ) as Self

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