
Roger Corman
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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.
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Beverly Hills, 90210

E! True Hollywood Story

The Practice

The Movies That Made Us

Apollo 13

The Godfather Part II

The Manchurian Candidate

Cannonball

Body Bags

Scream 3

The Second Civil War

Spector

The Silence of the Lambs

Philadelphia

Runaway Daughters

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

That Guy Dick Miller

The Independent

A History of Horror

Weird Night
Production Credits

Death Race 2

Cannonball

Emmanuelle 6

The Evil

Death Race: Inferno

Women in Cages

Battle Beyond the Stars

Subliminal Seduction

Little Shop of Horrors

Ladykiller

Splatter

Black Scorpion

Sting of the Black Scorpion

The Unspeakable

The Unholy Rollers

A Bucket of Blood

Black Scorpion II: Aftershock

The Wasp Woman

Last Exit to Earth

Vampirella

Death Race 2050

Targets

Abduction

Alien Avengers II

Death Race

The Secret Invasion

Hellfire

The Fantastic Four

Piranha

Grand Theft Auto

Suspect Device

Outside Chance
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