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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
SEGAL
Film · 2025
Il cinema secondo Corman
Film · 2025
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
Film · 2025
Sharksploitation
Film · 2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Film · 2024
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
Series · 2024
Lost Explorer
Film · 2023
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
Series · 2022
Spector
Series · 2022
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Film · 2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Film · 2021
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Film · 2021
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Film · 2020
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Film · 2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
Film · 2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Film · 2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Film · 2020
Tales of the Uncanny
Film · 2020
Ivan, the TerrirBle
Film · 2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Film · 2020
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
Series · 2020
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Film · 2019
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
Film · 2019
The Movies That Made Us
Series · 2019
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
Series · 2019
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Series · 2019
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Series · 2019
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Film · 2018
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Film · 2017
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Film · 2017
Greetings from Tromaville!
Film · 2017
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
Film · 2015
Extraordinary Tales
Film · 2015
Kings of Cult
Film · 2015
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Film · 2015
Behind the Swinging Blade
Film · 2014
That Guy Dick Miller
Film · 2014
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Film · 2014
It Came From Connemara!
Film · 2014
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
Film · 2013
La última película de Jess Franco
Film · 2013
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
Film · 2012
Corman's World
Film · 2011
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
Film · 2011
From Manila with Love
Film · 2011
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Film · 2011
Sharktopus
Film · 2010
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Film · 2010
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Film · 2010
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
Film · 2010
Searchers 2.0
Film · 2010
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Film · 2010
Dinoshark
Film · 2010
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
Film · 2010
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Series · 2010
A History of Horror
Series · 2010
Sodankylä Forever
Series · 2010
Conan
Series · 2010
Popatopolis
Film · 2009
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Film · 2009
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
Film · 2009
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
Film · 2009
Hollywood Gangster
Film · 2008
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Film · 2008
Rachel Getting Married
Film · 2008
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Film · 2008
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Film · 2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Film · 2007
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Film · 2007
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Film · 2007
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Film · 2007
The Sci-Fi Boys
Film · 2006
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
Film · 2005
The True Story of Hannibal
Film · 2005
The Perfect Scary Movie
Film · 2005
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Film · 2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Film · 2004
The Manchurian Candidate
Film · 2004
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Film · 2003
Corman's Comedy of Poe
Film · 2003
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Film · 2003
A Decade Under the Influence
Film · 2003
All the Love You Cannes!
Film · 2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Film · 2002
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Film · 2001
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Film · 2001
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Film · 2001
Remembering 'The Intruder'
Film · 2001
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Film · 2001
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Film · 2001
The Wicker Man Enigma
Film · 2001
Scream 3
Film · 2000
The Independent
Film · 2000
The Phantom Eye
Film · 1999
The Devil Ant
Film · 1999
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Film · 1998
Some Nudity Required
Film · 1998
The Dark Side of Hollywood
Film · 1998
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Film · 1997
The Second Civil War
Film · 1997
The Practice
Series · 1997
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
Film · 1996
E! True Hollywood Story
Series · 1996
100 Years of Horror
Series · 1996
Apollo 13
Film · 1995
Runaway Daughters
Film · 1994
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Film · 1994
A Century of Cinema
Film · 1994
Rebel Highway
Series · 1994
Body Bags
Film · 1993
Philadelphia
Film · 1993
The Silence of the Lambs
Film · 1991
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Film · 1991
The Horror Hall of Fame II
Film · 1991
Martin Scorsese Directs
Film · 1990
Horror Cafe
Film · 1990
Beverly Hills, 90210
Series · 1990
Lords of the Deep
Film · 1989
Hollywood Boulevard II
Film · 1989
First Works
Film · 1989
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Film · 1987
Biography
Series · 1987
Swing Shift
Film · 1984
Ticket to Hollywood
Film · 1984
The Horror of It All
Film · 1983
The State of Things
Film · 1982
The Howling
Film · 1981
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Film · 1978
Cannonball
Film · 1976
Tidal Wave
Film · 1975
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Series · 1975
The Godfather Part II
Film · 1974
Target: Harry
Film · 1969
Blood Bath
Film · 1966
Horror!!!
Film · 1964
The Young Racers
Film · 1963
Atlas
Film · 1961
Battle of Blood Island
Film · 1960
Ski Troop Attack
Film · 1960
The Wasp Woman
Film · 1959
War of the Satellites
Film · 1958
Cry Baby Killer
Film · 1958
Hot Car Girl
Film · 1958
Naked Paradise
Film · 1957
Day the World Ended
Film · 1955
The Fast and the Furious
Film · 1954
Monster from the Ocean Floor
Film · 1954
In Hock & Staying There
Film
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Film
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Film
Z Dead End
Film
Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
Film