Roger Corman

Production · 1.6 popularity

Age

100

Movies

133

Born: April 5, 1926 – May 9, 2024
From: Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Works

133 films

The Godfather Part II

19748.6

Apollo 13

19957.5

Scream 3

20006.0

Philadelphia

19937.7

The Silence of the Lambs

19918.3

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

20036.4

Rachel Getting Married

20086.3

The Howling

19816.6

The Manchurian Candidate

20046.5

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

20217.0

Body Bags

19936.2

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

20248.1

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

20125.3

Cannonball

19765.6

Sharktopus

20104.1

All the Love You Cannes!

20026.5

Corman's World

20117.0

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

20076.8

SEGAL

2025

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

20106.8

A Decade Under the Influence

20037.9

Dinoshark

20104.2

Swing Shift

19845.6

Memory: The Origins of Alien

20196.4

Horror Cafe

19908.5

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

20085.9

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

20206.8

The Second Civil War

19976.1

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

20205.7

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

20177.7

Some Nudity Required

19985.0

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

20106.6

The Wasp Woman

19594.5

Martin Scorsese Directs

19909.0

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

20037.1

Atlas

19613.4

Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman

20095.0

The Perfect Scary Movie

20057.7

The Fast and the Furious

19545.4

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

20028.0

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

20096.6

Blood Bath

19665.5

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

20046.5

Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

20095.0

The Horror Hall of Fame II

19912.0

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

19976.4

The State of Things

19826.4

A Century of Cinema

19948.3

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective

20117.7

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

20079.0

The Young Racers

19635.3

Extraordinary Tales

20156.5

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

20206.5

Runaway Daughters

19946.0

Lords of the Deep

19893.3

War of the Satellites

19585.2

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

19983.0

That Guy Dick Miller

20147.0

Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

20057.4

Tidal Wave

1975

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

1991

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

20216.3

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

20214.7

The Sci-Fi Boys

20067.0

The Phantom Eye

19998.0

First Works

19897.0

The Devil Ant

19998.0

Day the World Ended

19555.0

Horror!!!

19641.0

Greetings from Tromaville!

2017

The Independent

20005.3

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

20076.9

Target: Harry

19696.1

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

20196.0

Ski Troop Attack

19604.8

Tales of the Uncanny

20207.0

Sharksploitation

20246.7

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

19787.7

Cry Baby Killer

19585.8

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

2026

Popatopolis

20096.4

The Horror of It All

19838.3

The True Story of Hannibal

20057.0

Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

2011

Remembering 'The Intruder'

20012.0

Kings of Cult

20157.7

La última película de Jess Franco

20136.0

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

20077.8

Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man

20102.0

Hot Car Girl

19586.7

Battle of Blood Island

19605.4

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

20046.5

Hollywood Boulevard II

19894.4

It Came From Connemara!

20144.5

Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2

1996

From Manila with Love

2011

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

20017.3

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

1987

Lost Explorer

2023

Corman's Comedy of Poe

2003

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four

20156.7

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

20208.0

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

2026

Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

2017

In Hock & Staying There

2026

Z Dead End

2026

Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man

20017.8

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

20146.0

Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2

20186.0

Naked Paradise

19574.4

The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff

2008

Searchers 2.0

20076.2

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

20016.9

Monster from the Ocean Floor

19543.8

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

20017.4

Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror

20108.3

The Wicker Man Enigma

20016.2

The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters

19947.5

The Dark Side of Hollywood

19989.0

Il cinema secondo Corman

2025

Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

20075.0

Hollywood Gangster

2008

Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties

20017.0

Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres

20103.7

Ticket to Hollywood

1984

Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina

2026

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie

20137.7

It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story

201510.0

Behind the Swinging Blade

2014

Ivan, the TerrirBle

20201.0

Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen

20258.0

Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy

202010.0