Roger Corman

1926-04-05 Detroit, Michigan, USA

Biografia

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.

Películas

	SEGAL	Self	2025-10-12
	Il cinema secondo Corman	Self	2025-10-24
	Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen	Himself	2025-10-02
	Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain	Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer	2024-02-11
	Sharksploitation	Self	2024-10-12
	Lost Explorer	Jean	2023-11-06
	Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!	Self (archive footage)	2021-02-13
	Roger Corman, le pape du pop cinéma	Self	2021-01-19
	Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster	Self	2021-09-17
	O Colírio do Corman Me Deixou Doido Demais	Self	2020-01-27
	AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis	Self	2020-05-06
	Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp	Self	2020-06-23
	Tales of the Uncanny	Self	2020-10-31
	Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi	Self	2020-05-19
	AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1	Self	2020-04-08
	Ivan, O TerrirVel	Self (archive footage)	2020-09-01
	The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault	(archive footage)	2020-04-08
	Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson	Self	2019-07-21
	Memory: The Origins of Alien	Self	2019-01-24
	Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2	Self	2018-09-01
	Greetings from Tromaville!	Self	2017-11-30
	Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive		2017-04-29
	Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur	Self	2017-05-12
	Extraordinary Tales	Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')	2015-06-25
	It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story	Himself	2015-12-01
	Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four	Himself	2015-07-10
	Kings of Cult	self	2015-09-02
	It Came From Connemara!	Self	2014-07-09
	Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins	Self	2014-10-12
	Behind the Swinging Blade	Self	2014-05-19
	That Guy Dick Miller	Self	2014-03-07
	La última película de Jess Franco	Self	2013-10-11
	Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie		2013-06-07
	Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader	Dean Hinkle	2012-08-25
	Corman's World	Self - Filmmaker	2011-12-16
	Produce Your Own Damn Movie!	Self	2011-09-13
	Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective	Self	2011-04-14
	From Manila with Love	Himself	2011-06-21
	Dinoshark	Dr. Frank Reeves	2010-03-13
	Sharktopus	Beach Bum	2010-09-25
	Machete Maidens Unleashed!	Self	2010-10-15
	Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man	Self	2010-03-27
	Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres	Himself (archive footage)	2010-10-05
	Sodankylä ikuisesti: Elokuvan vuosisata	Self	2010-08-05
	With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story	Self	2010-07-24
	Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror	Self	2010-12-26
	Nightmares in Red, White and Blue	Self	2009-08-06
	Direct Your Own Damn Movie!	Self	2009-05-19
	Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman	Self	2009-02-25
	Popatopolis	Himself	2009-06-10
	Hollywood Gangster	Self	2008-12-27
	Rachel Getting Married	Wedding Guest	2008-09-03
	The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff	Himself	2008-10-28
	Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound	Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)	2008-06-10
	Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute	Self	2007-08-14
	Searchers 2.0	Producer (Flashback)	2007-08-31
	Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows	Self	2007-09-02
	Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project	Self	2007-10-13
	Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story	Self	2007-11-08
	Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman	Self	2007-05-16
	The Sci-Fi Boys	Self	2006-04-27
	The True Story of Hannibal	Self - Producer	2005-01-02
	The Perfect Scary Movie	Self	2005-10-29
	Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood		2005-12-02
	Mario Bava: Operazione paura	Self	2004-04-30
	The Manchurian Candidate	Mr. Secretary	2004-07-30
	Edgar G. Ulmer – Der Mann im Off	Self	2004-09-04
	A Decade Under the Influence	Self	2003-04-25
	Looney Tunes: Back in Action	Hollywood Director	2003-11-14
	Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood	Self	2003-03-09
	Corman's Comedy of Poe	Himself	2003-08-26
	Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film	Self (uncredited)	2002-04-02
	All the Love You Cannes!	Self	2002-05-16
	Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'	Self	2001-08-21
	Remembering 'The Intruder'	Himself	2001-03-27
	Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man	Himself	2001-12-29
	Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties	Self	2001-09-04
	Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies	Himself	2001-04-02
	It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures	Self	2001-05-01
	The Wicker Man Enigma	Himself	2001-10-01
	The Independent	Roger Corman	2000-11-10
	Scream 3	Studio Executive	2000-02-04
	The Devil Ant	Himself	1999-01-01
	The Phantom Eye	Dr. Gorman	1999-10-30
	Some Nudity Required	Himself	1998-10-16
	The Dark Side of Hollywood		1998-05-13
	Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs	Self	1998-01-01
	The Second Civil War	Sandy Collins	1997-12-04
	Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain	Self	1997-10-12
	Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2	Self	1996-01-01
	Apollo 13	Congressman	1995-06-30
	A Century of Cinema	Self	1994-01-01
	Runaway Daughters	Mr. Randolph	1994-08-12
	The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters	Self	1994-04-12
	Philadelphia	Mr. Laird	1993-12-22
	Body Bags	Dr. Bregman	1993-08-08
	Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper	Self	1991-05-17
	Hollywood Boulevard II	Roger Corman	1991-01-30
	The Silence of the Lambs	FBI Director Hayden Burke	1991-02-14
	Martin Scorsese Directs	Self	1990-06-16
	Horror Cafe	Self	1990-04-11
	First Works	Self	1989-10-10
	Lords of the Deep	Corporate executive (uncredited)	1989-06-02
	Out of the Blue and Into the Black	Self	1987-01-30
	Swing Shift	Mr. MacBride	1984-04-13
	Ticket to Hollywood	Self	1984-05-01
	The Horror of It All	Self	1983-02-23
	Der Stand der Dinge	The Lawyer	1982-03-22
	The Howling	Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)	1981-01-21
	Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel	Self	1978-04-06
	Cannonball	District Attorney	1976-07-06
	Tidal Wave	President of the United States (voice)	1975-05-28
	The Godfather Part II	Senator #2	1974-12-20
	Target: Harry	Man on Phone	1969-05-23
	Blood Bath	Antonio Sordi (in flashback) (uncredited)	1966-03-02
	Horror!!!	Self	1964-01-02
	The Young Racers	Man Outside Monaco Hotel (uncredited)	1963-01-01
	Atlas	Greek Soldier (uncredited)	1961-05-01
	Battle of Blood Island	Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)	1960-04-08
	Ski Troop Attack	German Officer (uncredited)	1960-04-08
	The Wasp Woman	Hospital Doctor (uncredited)	1959-10-30
	Hot Car Girl	Cop Who Finds Note (uncredited)	1958-08-17
	Cry Baby Killer	Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)	1958-08-15
	War of the Satellites	Ground Control (uncredited)	1958-05-18
	Naked Paradise	Office Worker (uncredited)	1957-01-01
	Day the World Ended	Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)	1955-12-01
	Monster from the Ocean Floor	Tommy (uncredited)	1954-05-21
	The Fast and the Furious	Roadblock State Trooper (uncredited)	1954-11-01
	Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina	Entrevistado
	Z Dead End	Rumored
	Mary Woronov: Cult Queen	Self
	I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni	Self
	In Hock & Staying There	Himself