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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.

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

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