
Roger Corman
Born: 1926-04-05
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

The Godfather Part II

Scream 3

Apollo 13

Philadelphia

Blood Bath

The Silence of the Lambs

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie

Runaway Daughters

La última película de Jess Franco

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Cannonball

Sharktopus

Z Dead End

Sharksploitation

The Manchurian Candidate

Swing Shift

Ski Troop Attack

The Howling

Dinoshark

Horror Cafe

Corman's World

The Wasp Woman

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

Hollywood Boulevard II

Horror!!!

Rachel Getting Married

Hot Car Girl

Day the World Ended

In Hock & Staying There

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

War of the Satellites

Martin Scorsese Directs

Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

That Guy Dick Miller

Memory: The Origins of Alien

The Horror of It All

Atlas

Body Bags

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

The Second Civil War

Some Nudity Required

Extraordinary Tales

The Young Racers

The Fast and the Furious

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Cry Baby Killer

All the Love You Cannes!

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

The Perfect Scary Movie

Battle of Blood Island

Monster from the Ocean Floor

Lords of the Deep

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff

The State of Things

Tales of the Uncanny

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

The Independent

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

Lost Explorer

Tidal Wave

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective

The Sci-Fi Boys

Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

A Decade Under the Influence

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

The Phantom Eye

Popatopolis

Target: Harry

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

First Works

SEGAL

The Devil Ant

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Sodankylä Forever

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

Kings of Cult

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

A Century of Cinema

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

The Dark Side of Hollywood

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

The Wicker Man Enigma

Naked Paradise

Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

Greetings from Tromaville!

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

Searchers 2.0

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

Il cinema secondo Corman

Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters

Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man

Ivan, the TerrirBle

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Behind the Swinging Blade

Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres

Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties

It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story

It Came From Connemara!

Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2

From Manila with Love

Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
