Roger Corman
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.
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Movies (44)
Il cinema secondo Corman
as Self
2025
SEGAL
as Self
2025
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
as Himself
2025
Occupy Cannes
Executive Producer (Production)
2025
Sharksploitation
as Self
2024
Lost Explorer
as Jean
2023
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
as Self
2022
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
as Self
2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
as Self
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2020
Ivan, the TerrirBle
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
as Self
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
as Self
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
as Self
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
as Self
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
2020
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
as Self
2020
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
as Self
2019
Abduction
Producer (Production)
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
2019
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
2018
Greetings from Tromaville!
as Himself
2017
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
as Self
2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017
Death Race 2050
Producer (Production)
2017
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
as Himself
2015
Kings of Cult
as self
2015
Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
Producer (Production)
2015
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
as Himself
2015
CobraGator
Executive Producer (Production)
2015
Extraordinary Tales
as Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
2015
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
as Self
2014
Fist of the Dragon
Producer (Production)
2014
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda
Producer (Production)
2014
It Came From Connemara!
as Self
2014
Water Wars
Executive Producer (Production)
2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
as Self
2014
That Guy Dick Miller
as Self
2014
Operation Rogue
Producer (Production)
2014
La última película de Jess Franco
as Self
2013
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
2013
Virtually Heroes
Executive Producer (Production)
2013
Death Race: Inferno
Executive Producer (Production)
2013
