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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Corman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Production

Born: Detroit, Michigan, USA, 1926-04-05

Died: 2024-05-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1954	Monster from the Ocean Floor	Tommy	35
2	1954	The Fast and the Furious	Roadblock State Trooper	49
3	1955	Day the World Ended	Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)	49
4	1957	Naked Paradise	Office Worker (uncredited)	38
5	1958	War of the Satellites	Ground Control (uncredited)	50
6	1958	The Cry Baby Killer	Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)	55
7	1959	The Wasp Woman	Hospital Doctor	43
8	1960	Battle of Blood Island	Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)	48
9	1960	Ski Troop Attack	German Officer (uncredited)	45
10	1961	Atlas	Greek Soldier (uncredited)	31
11	1964	Horror!!!	Self	10
12	1969	Target: Harry	Man on Phone	56
13	1974	The Godfather Part II	Senator #2	86
14	1975	Tidal Wave	President of the United States (voice)	0
15	1976	Cannonball	District Attorney	55
16	1978	Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel	Self	74
17	1981	The Howling	Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)	66
18	1982	The State of Things	The Lawyer	65
19	1983	The Horror of It All	Self	80
20	1984	Swing Shift	Mr. MacBride	56
21	1984	Ticket to Hollywood	Self	0
22	1987	Out of the Blue and Into the Black	Self	0
23	1989	Lords of the Deep	Corporate executive (uncredited)	28
24	1989	First Works	Self	0
25	1990	Horror Cafe	Self	85
26	1990	Martin Scorsese Directs	Self	90
27	1991	Hollywood Boulevard II	Roger Corman	40
28	1991	The Silence of the Lambs	FBI Director Hayden Burke	83
29	1991	Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper	Self	0
30	1993	Body Bags	Dr. Bregman	61
31	1993	Philadelphia	Mr. Laird	77
32	1994	A Century of Cinema	Self	80
33	1994	The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters	Self	75
34	1994	Runaway Daughters	Mr. Randolph	60
35	1994	Weird Night		0
36	1995	Apollo 13	Congressman	75
37	1996	Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2	Self	0
38	1997	Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain	Self	64
39	1997	The Second Civil War	Sandy Collins	61
40	1998	Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs	Self	30
41	1998	The Dark Side of Hollywood		0
42	1998	Some Nudity Required	Himself	50
43	1999	The Devil Ant	Himself	0
44	1999	The Phantom Eye	Dr. Gorman	80
45	2000	Scream 3	Studio Executive	60
46	2000	The Independent	Roger Corman	56
47	2001	Remembering 'The Intruder'	Himself	0
48	2001	Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies	Himself	70
49	2001	It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures	Self	68
50	2001	Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'	Self	73
51	2001	Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties	Self	0
52	2001	The Wicker Man Enigma	Himself	60
53	2001	Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man	Himself	70
54	2002	Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film	Self (uncredited)	0
55	2002	All the Love You Cannes!	Self	64
56	2003	Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood	Self	71
57	2003	A Decade Under the Influence	Self	80
58	2003	Corman's Comedy of Poe	Himself	0
59	2003	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	Hollywood Director	63
60	2004	Mario Bava: Operazione paura	Self	60
61	2004	The Manchurian Candidate	Mr. Secretary	65
62	2004	Edgar G. Ulmer – Der Mann im Off	Self	68
63	2005	The True Story of Hannibal	Self - Producer	67
64	2005	The Perfect Scary Movie	Self	75
65	2005	Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood		68
66	2006	The Sci-Fi Boys	Self	70
67	2007	Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman	Self	90
68	2007	Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute	Self	50
69	2007	Searchers 2.0	Producer (Flashback)	62
70	2007	Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows	Self	69
71	2007	Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Self	68
72	2007	Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story	Self	77
73	2008	Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound	Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)	65
74	2008	Rachel Getting Married	Wedding Guest	63
75	2008	The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff	Himself	0
76	2009	Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman	Himself	50
77	2009	Direct Your Own Damn Movie!	Self	50
78	2010	Dinoshark	Dr. Frank Reeves	43
79	2010	Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man	Self	20
80	2010	With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story	Self	68
81	2010	Sodankylä Forever	Self	0
82	2010	Sharktopus	Beach Bum	42
83	2010	Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres	Himself (archive footage)	45
84	2010	Machete Maidens Unleashed!	Self	67
85	2010	Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror	Self	83
86	2011	Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective	Self	77
87	2011	From Manila with Love	Himself	0
88	2011	Produce Your Own Damn Movie!	Self	0
89	2012	Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader	Dean Hinkle	55
90	2013	Extraordinary Tales	Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')	64
91	2013	Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie		76
92	2013	La última película de Jess Franco	Self	60
93	2014	That Guy Dick Miller	Self	70
94	2014	Behind the Swinging Blade	Self	0
95	2014	It Came From Connemara!	Self	45
96	2015	Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four	Himself	67
97		I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni	Self	0
98	2015	Kings of Cult	self	75
99	2015	It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story	Himself	100
100	2017	Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive		72
101		In Hock & Staying There	Himself	0
102	2008	Hollywood Gangster	Self	0
103	2009	Popatopolis	Himself	67
104	2009	Nightmares in Red, White and Blue	Self	66
105	2011	Corman's World	Self - Filmmaker	71
106	2017	Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur	Self	0
107	2017	Greetings from Tromaville!	Himself	0
108	2018	Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2		60
109	2019	Memory: The Origins of Alien	Self	63
110	2019	Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson	Self	67
111	2020	Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy	Self	100
112	2020	AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1	Self	80
113	2020	AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #3: SEQUELITIS	Self	65
114	2020	Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi	Self	64
115	2020	Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp	Self	68
116	2020	Tales of the Uncanny	Self	71
117	2021	Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema	Self	60
118		Mary Woronov: Cult Queen		0
119	2014	Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins	Self	60
120		SEGAL	Self	0
121		Z Dead End	Rumored	0
122	2020	Ivan, the TerrirBle	Self (archive footage)	10
123	2021	Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!	Self (archive footage)	40
124	2021	Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster	Self	70
125	2022	1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!	Self	80
126	2023	Lost Explorer	Jean	0
127	2024	Sharksploitation	Self	0
128	2025	The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault	Self	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
2	1990	Beverly Hills, 90210		74
3	1996	E! True Hollywood Story		81
4	1997	The Practice	John Matlin	77
5	2010	A History of Horror	Self	75
6	2010	Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood	Self	47
7	2019	The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs	Self	75
8	2019	The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs		75
9	2019	CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman	Himself	90
10	2019	The Movies That Made Us	Self	72
11	2022	Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow		60
12	2022	Spector	Self	63
13	2024	The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman	Himself	0

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