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.
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1926-04-05
Place of birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
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The Godfather Part II
1974
8.57
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
8.35
Apollo 13
1995
7.45
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017
7.70
Scream 3
2000
6.01
The Fast and the Furious
1954
5.01
The State of Things
1982
6.40
Cannonball
1976
5.53
The Howling
1981
6.58
Body Bags
1993
6.11
The Wasp Woman
1959
4.45
Popatopolis
2009
6.45
Monster from the Ocean Floor
1954
3.56
Naked Paradise
1957
3.80
War of the Satellites
1958
5.07
Atlas
1961
3.10
The Horror of It All
1983
8.00
Hollywood Gangster
2008
0.00
Sharktopus
2010
4.20
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010
6.57
The Independent
2000
5.41
Corman's World
2011
7.10
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
7.00
Sharksploitation
2024
7.00
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
2009
5.00
Corman's Comedy of Poe
2003
0.00
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2005
7.30
Runaway Daughters
1994
5.40
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014
0.00
That Guy Dick Miller
2014
7.00
Philadelphia
1993
7.71
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
2009
5.00
Battle of Blood Island
1960
4.80
Extraordinary Tales
2015
6.47
Kings of Cult
2015
7.50
Target: Harry
1969
5.64
Lost Explorer
2023
0.00
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2003
6.40
Lords of the Deep
1989
2.95
Some Nudity Required
1998
4.60
Hollywood Boulevard II
1991
3.71
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
6.40
Remembering 'The Intruder'
2001
0.00
Rachel Getting Married
2008
6.30
From Manila with Love
2011
0.00
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
6.00
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
9.00
Horror Cafe
1990
8.50
First Works
1989
0.00
The Dark Side of Hollywood
1998
0.00
Greetings from Tromaville!
2017
0.00
It Came From Connemara!
2014
4.50
The Phantom Eye
1999
8.00
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
6.35
The Second Civil War
1997
6.04
Cry Baby Killer
1958
5.75
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
6.48
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
2019
6.23
A Century of Cinema
1994
8.00
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
2020
10.00
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
2020
8.00
The Wicker Man Enigma
2001
6.00
Searchers 2.0
2007
6.20
The True Story of Hannibal
2005
6.70
Swing Shift
1984
5.54
The Perfect Scary Movie
2005
7.50
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
7.00
SEGAL
2025
0.00
Z Dead End
0.00
Day the World Ended
1955
4.94
Sodankylä Forever
2010
0.00
Dinoshark
2010
4.19
Ski Troop Attack
1960
4.50
Ticket to Hollywood
1984
0.00
Horror!!!
1964
1.00
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
2011
0.00
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
7.90
Ivan, the TerrirBle
2020
1.00
Tidal Wave
1975
0.00
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
0.00
The Devil Ant
1999
8.00
Hot Car Girl
1958
6.00
The Young Racers
1963
5.10
Blood Bath
1966
5.47
Il cinema secondo Corman
2025
0.00
