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.
Filmography (63)
Abduction
Death Race: Inferno
Death Race 2
Rachel Getting Married
Death Race
The Manchurian Candidate
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Shakedown
Scream 3
Carnosaur 3: Primal Species
Apollo 13
Carnosaur 2
The Fantastic Four
Watchers III
The Silence of the Hams
Philadelphia
Body Bags
Carnosaur
The Silence of the Lambs
Watchers II
Frankenstein Unbound
Sorority House Massacre II
Watchers
The Sisterhood
Slumber Party Massacre II
Munchies
Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans
Chopping Mall
Little Shop of Horrors
Sorority House Massacre
Suburbia
Deathstalker
Love Letters
The Slumber Party Massacre
Forbidden World
The Howling
Galaxy of Terror
Humanoids from the Deep
Saint Jack
Piranha
The Evil
Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase
Death Race 2000
Capone
The Godfather Part II
Caged Heat
Big Bad Mama
Stacey
Boxcar Bertha
The Big Bird Cage
Women in Cages
The Dunwich Horror
Targets
The Wild Angels
Queen of Blood
The Masque of the Red Death
The Raven
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
The Haunted Palace
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Little Shop of Horrors
