Roger Corman
Production
Born April 5, 1926 · Detroit, Michigan, USA
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.
Directed (52)
Frankenstein Unbound
1990
Von Richthofen and Brown
1971
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
1970
Bloody Mama
1970
Target: Harry
1969
The Wild Racers
1968
The Trip
1967
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
The Wild Angels
1966
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964
The Secret Invasion
1964
The Masque of the Red Death
1964
The Haunted Palace
1963
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
The Terror
1963
The Raven
1963
The Young Racers
1963
Tower of London
1962
Tales of Terror
1962
The Intruder
1962
The Premature Burial
1962
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961
Atlas
1961
Last Woman on Earth
1960
House of Usher
1960
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960
Ski Troop Attack
1960
The Wasp Woman
1959
A Bucket of Blood
1959
I, Mobster
1959
She Gods of Shark Reef
1958
Teenage Cave Man
1958
War of the Satellites
1958
Machine-Gun Kelly
1958
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
1957
Sorority Girl
1957
Teenage Doll
1957
Carnival Rock
1957
Rock All Night
1957
The Undead
1957
Attack of the Crab Monsters
1957
Not of This Earth
1957
Naked Paradise
1957
It Conquered the World
1956
The Oklahoma Woman
1956
Gunslinger
1956
Swamp Women
1956
Day the World Ended
1955
Apache Woman
1955
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955
Five Guns West
1955
Acting (127)
Il cinema secondo Corman
2025
SEGAL
2025
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
2025
Sharksploitation
2024
Lost Explorer
2023
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Ivan, the TerrirBle
2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
2020
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
2018
Greetings from Tromaville!
2017
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
2015
Kings of Cult
2015
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
2015
Extraordinary Tales
2015
