Roger Corman
🎂 Apr 5, 1926 — 🕯️ May 9, 2024 (98 years)
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Working since the 1950s, Roger Corman is a producer from Detroit, Michigan, USA. The film Death Race is one of the titles that define their career. Their filmography further includes Death Race 2 and Death Race: Inferno. Across 72 years they have produced 447 films and 3 TV productions, working mainly across genres like sci-fi, horror, action.
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The Raven
1963
Deathsport
1978
The Undead
1957
The Terror
1963
The Haunted Palace
1963
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960
The Wasp Woman
1959
Frankenstein Unbound
1990
Swamp Women
1956
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
I, Mobster
1959
The Premature Burial
1962
De Sade
1969
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964
The Masque of the Red Death
1964
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
1970
The Wild Angels
1966
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
Bloody Mama
1970
The Intruder
1962
House of Usher
1960
A Time for Killing
1967
The Trip
1967
The Secret Invasion
1964
Von Richthofen and Brown
1971
Day the World Ended
1955
It Conquered the World
1956
Teenage Doll
1957
Machine-Gun Kelly
1958
Gunslinger
1956
Tales of Terror
1962
A Bucket of Blood
1959
Tower of London
1962
Five Guns West
1955
Last Woman on Earth
1960
Naked Paradise
1957
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955
The Young Racers
1963
Teenage Cave Man
1958
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
1957
Attack of the Crab Monsters
1957
Not of This Earth
1957
War of the Satellites
1958
Apache Woman
1955
Atlas
1961
Ski Troop Attack
1960
Rock All Night
1957
Carnival Rock
1957
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Von Richthofen and Brown
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1971
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Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
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Bloody Mama
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1970
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De Sade
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1969
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Is Roger Corman still alive?
Roger Corman passed away on May 9, 2024 at age 98.
What are the most famous roles of Roger Corman?
Roger Corman is best known as a director/writer for The Little Shop of Horrors, The Pit and the Pendulum, House of Usher.
How many movies has Roger Corman directed?
Roger Corman has directed/written 58 films and worked on 1 TV shows.
What was Roger Corman's first movie?
Roger Corman's first credited film was Highway Dragnet (1954).
What is Roger Corman's most recent movie?
Roger Corman's most recent movie is Frankenstein Unbound (1990).
What are Roger Corman's best movies?
Roger Corman's most acclaimed films include: The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), House of Usher (1960), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), The Raven (1963).
What TV shows has Roger Corman created or directed?
Roger Corman is known for TV work including: Black Scorpion.
How long has Roger Corman been working in film?
Roger Corman has been active since 1954 — a career spanning 70 years.
Roger Corman
1926-04-05 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.