Roger Corman

Born: 1926-04-05 in Detroit, Michigan, USA

Died: 2024-05-09

Known For: Production

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.

Filmography

2000

Scream 3 as Studio Executive
The Independent as Roger Corman
The Doorway ... (Executive Producer)
Nightfall ... (Producer)
Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time ... (Producer)
The Suicide Club ... (Producer)
Up Against Amanda ... (Producer)
Dangerous Curves ... (Producer)
Moving Target ... (Producer)

1999

Born Bad ... (Producer)
The Haunting of Hell House ... (Producer)
The Devil Ant as Himself
The Phantom Eye as Dr. Gorman
Cybermaster: Shepherd II ... (Executive Producer)
Stray Bullet ... (Producer)
Velocity ... (Producer)
Enemy Action ... (Producer)
The White Pony ... (Producer)
The Protector ... (Executive Producer)
Knocking on Death's Door ... (Executive Producer)

1998

Watchers Reborn ... (Executive Producer)
Desert Thunder ... (Executive Producer)
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
A Very Unlucky Leprechaun ... (Producer)
Some Nudity Required as Himself
Black Thunder ... (Executive Producer)
Club Vampire ... (Executive Producer)
The Shepherd ... (Executive Producer)
The Capitol Conspiracy ... (Executive Producer)
Running Woman ... (Producer)
Termination Man ... (Executive Producer)
Criminal Affairs ... (Executive Producer)
Lola's Game ... (Executive Producer)
The Dark Side of Hollywood

1997

The Practice as John Matlin
Eruption ... (Executive Producer)
The Second Civil War as Sandy Collins
Star Portal ... (Producer)
Time Under Fire ... (Producer)
Black Scorpion II: Aftershock ... (Executive Producer)
Operation Cobra ... (Executive Producer)
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain as Self
Overdrive ... (Executive Producer)
The Haunted Sea ... (Executive Producer)
Future Fear ... (Executive Producer)
Falling Fire ... (Producer)
The Sea Wolf ... (Executive Producer)
My Brother's War ... (Executive Producer)
Macon County Jail ... (Executive Producer)
Shadow Dancer ... (Executive Producer)
Alien Avengers II ... (Executive Producer)
Spacejacked ... (Executive Producer)
Under Oath ... (Executive Producer)
Rumble in the Streets ... (Executive Producer)
Don't Sleep Alone ... (Executive Producer)

1996

100 Years of Horror as Self - Interview
E! True Hollywood Story
Humanoids from the Deep ... (Executive Producer)
Marquis de Sade ... (Executive Producer)
Baby Face Nelson ... (Executive Producer)
Subliminal Seduction ... (Executive Producer)
Vampirella ... (Executive Producer)
Alien Avengers ... (Executive Producer)
Dance with Me ... (Executive Producer)
The Unspeakable ... (Executive Producer)
Alien Terminator ... (Producer)
Ladykiller ... (Producer)
Carnosaur 3: Primal Species ... (Producer)
Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill ... (Executive Producer)
Death Game ... (Executive Producer)
Starquest II ... (Producer)
Last Exit to Earth ... (Executive Producer)
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2 as Self
House of the Damned ... (Executive Producer)
Black Rose of Harlem ... (Executive Producer)
Inhumanoid ... (Executive Producer)
When the Bullet Hits the Bone ... (Executive Producer)
Bio-Tech Warrior ... (Producer)

1995

Apollo 13 as Congressman
Black Scorpion ... (Executive Producer)
Stripteaser ... (Producer)
Piranha ... (Executive Producer)
Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure ... (Executive Producer)
Dillinger and Capone ... (Executive Producer)
A Bucket of Blood ... (Executive Producer)
Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold ... (Executive Producer)
Sawbones ... (Executive Producer)
Bloodfist 7: Manhunt ... (Executive Producer)
Burial of the Rats ... (Executive Producer)
Carnosaur 2 ... (Producer)
Not Like Us ... (Executive Producer)
One Night Stand ... (Executive Producer)
The Alien Within ... (Executive Producer)
The Wasp Woman ... (Executive Producer)
Hellfire ... (Producer)
Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero ... (Executive Producer)
Caged Heat 3000 ... (Executive Producer)
Not of This Earth ... (Executive Producer)
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys ... (Executive Producer)
Cyberzone ... (Executive Producer)
Virtual Seduction ... (Executive Producer)
Suspect Device ... (Executive Producer)
Terminal Virus ... (Executive Producer)
Where Evil Lies ... (Executive Producer)
Twisted Love ... (Executive Producer)

1994

The Fantastic Four ... (Executive Producer)
Rebel Highway as Mr. Randolph
The Silence of the Hams ... (Production Assistant)
Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III ... (Executive Producer)
Dinosaur Island ... (Executive Producer)
A Century of Cinema as Self
Watchers III ... (Executive Producer)
The Crazysitter ... (Executive Producer)
Stranglehold ... (Executive Producer)
Cheyenne Warrior ... (Executive Producer)
Angel of Destruction ... (Executive Producer)
The Liars' Club ... (Producer)
No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn ... (Producer)
New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020 ... (Executive Producer)
The Spy Within ... (Executive Producer)
Runaway Daughters as Mr. Randolph
Bloodfist V: Human Target ... (Executive Producer)
Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom ... (Executive Producer)
One Man Army ... (Executive Producer)
Revenge of the Red Baron ... (Executive Producer)
The Unborn II ... (Producer)
In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful ... (Executive Producer)
Reflections on a Crime ... (Executive Producer)
Terminal Voyage ... (Producer)
Munchie Strikes Back ... (Executive Producer)
Caroline at Midnight ... (Executive Producer)
Demon Keeper ... (Executive Producer)
Saturday Night Special ... (Executive Producer)
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters as Self

1993

Philadelphia as Mr. Laird
Body Bags as Dr. Bregman
Carnosaur ... (Executive Producer)
Fire on the Amazon ... (Executive Producer)
Angelfist ... (Executive Producer)
Stepmonster ... (Producer)
Little Miss Millions ... (Executive Producer)
White Wolves - A Cry in the Wild II ... (Producer)
Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon ... (Executive Producer)
Dragon Fire ... (Executive Producer)
Kill Zone ... (Producer)
Dracula Rising ... (Producer)
The Skateboard Kid ... (Executive Producer)
The Turn-On ... (Executive Producer)
To Sleep with a Vampire ... (Executive Producer)
Live by the Fist ... (Executive Producer)

1992

Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger ... (Executive Producer)
Blackbelt ... (Executive Producer)
Final Judgement ... (Executive Producer)
Dance with Death ... (Executive Producer)
Munchie ... (Executive Producer)
Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight ... (Executive Producer)
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying ... (Executive Producer)
In the Heat of Passion ... (Executive Producer)
Quake ... (Executive Producer)
Body Waves ... (Executive Producer)
Final Embrace ... (Producer)
Beyond the Call of Duty ... (Producer)
The Berlin Conspiracy ... (Executive Producer)
Ultraviolet ... (Executive Producer)
Crisis in the Kremlin ... (Producer)

1991

The Silence of the Lambs as FBI Director Hayden Burke
Dead Space ... (Executive Producer)
Dune Warriors ... (Producer)
The Unborn ... (Producer)
Future Kick ... (Executive Producer)
Immortal Sins ... (Producer)
Kiss Me a Killer ... (Producer)
The Horror Hall of Fame II as Self - Inductee
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper as Self
The Terror Within II ... (Executive Producer)
Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans ... (Executive Producer)
Curse of the Crystal Eye ... (Executive Producer)
To Die Standing ... (Executive Producer)

1990

Beverly Hills, 90210 as Roger Corman
Frankenstein Unbound ... (Producer)
Watchers II ... (Producer)
Body Chemistry ... (Executive Producer)
Silk 2 ... (Executive Producer)
Sorority House Massacre II ... (Producer)
Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders ... (Producer)
Horror Cafe as Self
Bloodfist II ... (Producer)
Streets ... (Producer)
Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back ... (Producer)
A Cry in the Wild ... (Executive Producer)
The Haunting of Morella ... (Producer)
The Rain Killer ... (Producer)
Full Fathom Five ... (Producer)
Corporate Affairs ... (Executive Producer)
Overexposed ... (Producer)
Ultra Warrior ... (Executive Producer)
Schweitzer ... (Producer)
Play Murder for Me ... (Executive Producer)

1989

Under the Boardwalk ... (Executive Producer)
Bloodfist ... (Producer)
The Terror Within ... (Producer)
Think Big ... (Producer)
Lords of the Deep as Corporate executive (uncredited)
First Works as Self
Transylvania Twist ... (Executive Producer)
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II ... (Producer)
Hollywood Boulevard II as Roger Corman
Time Trackers ... (Producer)
Food of the Gods II ... (Producer)
Dance of the Damned ... (Executive Producer)
Nam Angels ... (Producer)
Ministry of Vengeance ... (Producer)
Nowhere to Run ... (Executive Producer)
Back to Back ... (Producer)
Heroes Stand Alone ... (Producer)
Masque of the Red Death ... (Producer)
Blackbelt II: Fatal Force ... (Executive Producer)
Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls ... (Executive Producer)
Last Stand at Lang Mei ... (Producer)
Two to Tango ... (Producer)

1988

Watchers ... (Executive Producer)
Emmanuelle 6 ... (Producer)
Not of This Earth ... (Executive Producer)
Purple People Eater ... (Producer)
Saigon Commandos ... (Executive Producer)
Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell ... (Executive Producer)
The Sisterhood ... (Producer)
Apprentice to Murder ... (Executive Producer)
Crime Zone ... (Executive Producer)
Daddy's Boys ... (Executive Producer)
Grotesque ... (Producer)
The Drifter ... (Executive Producer)
Warlords from Hell ... (Producer)
Saturday the 14th Strikes Back ... (Producer)
The New Gladiators ... (Executive Producer)
The Lawless Land ... (Producer)
Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure ... (Executive Producer)

1987

Biography as Self
Big Bad Mama II ... (Producer)
Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans ... (Executive Producer)
Munchies ... (Producer)
Slumber Party Massacre II ... (Executive Producer)
Stripped to Kill ... (Executive Producer)
Sweet Revenge ... (Executive Producer)
Eye of the Eagle ... (Producer)
Summer Camp Nightmare ... (Executive Producer)
Hour of the Assassin ... (Executive Producer)
Out of the Blue and Into the Black as Self

1986

Little Shop of Horrors ... (Original Film Writer)
Chopping Mall ... (Executive Producer)
Amazons ... (Associate Producer)
Sorority House Massacre ... (Executive Producer)
Shadow Play ... (Executive Producer)
The Devastator ... (Executive Producer)

1985

Barbarian Queen ... (Executive Producer)
School Spirit ... (Executive Producer)
Streetwalkin' ... (Producer)
Cocaine Wars ... (Producer)
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom ... (Producer)
Naked Vengeance ... (Producer)

1984

The Warrior and the Sorceress ... (Executive Producer)
Swing Shift as Mr. MacBride
Suburbia ... (Producer)
Oddballs ... (Executive Producer)
Ticket to Hollywood as Self

1983

Deathstalker ... (Executive Producer)
Love Letters ... (Producer)
Space Raiders ... (Producer)
The Horror of It All as Self
Mountaintop Motel Massacre ... (Producer)
White Star ... (Producer)

1982

Forbidden World ... (Producer)
The Slumber Party Massacre ... (Executive Producer)
The State of Things as The Lawyer
Sorceress ... (Executive Producer)
Murder by Phone ... (Producer)
Android ... (Producer)
Jimmy the Kid ... (Producer)

1981

The Howling as Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
Galaxy of Terror ... (Producer)
Smokey Bites the Dust ... (Producer)
The Territory ... (Producer)

1980

Shogun Assassin ... (Producer)
Battle Beyond the Stars ... (Executive Producer)
Humanoids from the Deep ... (Executive Producer)
Richard's Things ... (Producer)
My American Uncle ... (Producer)
The Georgia Peaches ... (Executive Producer)
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype ... (Writer)

1979

Island of the Fishmen ... (Executive Producer)
The Lady in Red ... (Executive Producer)
Saint Jack ... (Producer)
Rock 'n' Roll High School ... (Executive Producer)
Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider ... (Producer)
The Prize Fighter ... (Producer)
Up from the Depths ... (Producer)
Leopard in the Snow ... (Producer)

1978

Galaxy Express 999 ... (Producer)
Piranha ... (Executive Producer)
Avalanche ... (Producer)
The Bees ... (Executive Producer)
The Evil ... (Executive Producer)
Deathsport ... (Producer)
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel as Self
Outside Chance ... (Executive Producer)

1977

Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia ... (Producer)
Grand Theft Auto ... (Executive Producer)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ... (Executive Producer)
Thunder and Lightning ... (Producer)
Ransom ... (Co-Producer)
Black Oak Conspiracy ... (Producer)

1976

Cannonball as District Attorney
Fighting Mad ... (Producer)
God Told Me To ... (Producer)
Nashville Girl ... (Executive Producer)
Moving Violation ... (Executive Producer)
Jackson County Jail ... (Executive Producer)
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase ... (Executive Producer)
Hollywood Boulevard ... (Executive Producer)
Eat My Dust ... (Producer)

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
Death Race 2000 ... (Executive Producer)
Capone ... (Producer)
Cover Girl Models ... (Executive Producer)
Tidal Wave as President of the United States (voice)
Darktown Strutters ... (Executive Producer)

1974

The Godfather Part II as Senator #2
Big Bad Mama ... (Producer)
The Arena ... (Executive Producer)
Caged Heat ... (Producer)
Down and Dirty Duck ... (Producer)
TNT Jackson ... (Executive Producer)
Cockfighter ... (Producer)
Candy Stripe Nurses ... (Executive Producer)
Tender Loving Care ... (Producer)

1973

Fly Me ... (Executive Producer)
The Young Nurses ... (Producer)
Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman ... (Executive Producer)
Stacey ... (Producer)
I Escaped from Devil's Island ... (Producer)

1972

Boxcar Bertha ... (Producer)
Night Call Nurses ... (Executive Producer)
Sweet Kill ... (Executive Producer)
The Big Bird Cage ... (Executive Producer)
The Cremators ... (Producer)
The Unholy Rollers ... (Executive Producer)
The Crucified Girls of San Ramon ... (Producer)
Night of the Cobra Woman ... (Producer)
The Twilight People ... (Executive Producer)
The Final Comedown ... (Producer)
The Dirt Gang ... (Executive Producer)
The Hot Box ... (Executive Producer)
The Woman Hunt ... (Executive Producer)

1971

The Big Doll House ... (Executive Producer)
Women in Cages ... (Producer)
Von Richthofen and Brown ... (Director)
Lady Frankenstein ... (Producer)
The Velvet Vampire ... (Executive Producer)
Angels Hard as They Come ... (Executive Producer)
The Beast of the Yellow Night ... (Executive Producer)
Private Duty Nurses ... (Executive Producer)

1970

The Dunwich Horror ... (Executive Producer)
Bloody Mama ... (Director)
The Student Nurses ... (Executive Producer)
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. ... (Director)
Scream of the Demon Lover ... (Producer)
Angels Die Hard ... (Executive Producer)

1969

De Sade ... (Director)
Pit Stop ... (Executive Producer)
Target: Harry as Man on Phone

1968

Targets ... (Executive Producer)
Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women ... (Producer)
The Wild Racers ... (Executive Producer)

1967

A Time for Killing ... (Director)
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre ... (Director)
The Trip ... (Director)
Devil's Angels ... (Producer)

1966

The Shooting ... (Executive Producer)
The Wild Angels ... (Producer)
Queen of Blood ... (Executive Producer)
Ride in the Whirlwind ... (Producer)
Blood Bath as Antonio Sordi (in flashback) (uncredited)
The Navy vs. the Night Monsters ... (Producer)

1965

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet ... (Executive Producer)

1964

The Masque of the Red Death ... (Director)
The Tomb of Ligeia ... (Director)
The Secret Invasion ... (Director)
Horror!!! as Self
The Day the Earth Froze ... (Producer)

1963

The Raven ... (Director)
The Haunted Palace ... (Director)
The Terror ... (Director)
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes ... (Director)
Dementia 13 ... (Producer)
The Young Racers as Man Outside Monaco Hotel (uncredited)
Operation Titian ... (Co-Producer)
The Sword and the Dragon ... (Producer)

1962

The Premature Burial ... (Director)
Tales of Terror ... (Director)
The Intruder ... (Director)
Tower of London ... (Director)
The Magic Voyage of Sinbad ... (Producer)

1961

The Pit and the Pendulum ... (Producer)
Atlas as Greek Soldier (uncredited)
Creature from the Haunted Sea ... (Producer)

1960

The Little Shop of Horrors ... (Producer)
House of Usher ... (Director)
Last Woman on Earth ... (Director)
Ski Troop Attack as German Officer (uncredited)
Battle of Blood Island as Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)

1959

A Bucket of Blood ... (Director)
The Wasp Woman as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Attack of the Giant Leeches ... (Executive Producer)
Battle Beyond the Sun ... (Producer)
Beast from Haunted Cave ... (Executive Producer)
High School Big Shot ... (Producer)
I, Mobster ... (Director)
T-Bird Gang ... (Producer)

1958

Machine-Gun Kelly ... (Director)
War of the Satellites as Ground Control (uncredited)
Night of the Blood Beast ... (Executive Producer)
Teenage Cave Man ... (Director)
The Brain Eaters ... (Executive Producer)
Stakeout on Dope Street ... (Producer)
Hot Car Girl as Cop Who Finds Note (uncredited)
Cry Baby Killer as Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)
She Gods of Shark Reef ... (Director)

1957

Sorority Girl ... (Director)
The Undead ... (Director)
Not of This Earth ... (Director)
Attack of the Crab Monsters ... (Director)
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent ... (Director)
Teenage Doll ... (Director)
Rock All Night ... (Director)
Naked Paradise as Office Worker (uncredited)
Carnival Rock ... (Director)

1956

It Conquered the World ... (Director)
Gunslinger ... (Director)
Swamp Women ... (Director)
The Oklahoma Woman ... (Director)

1955

Five Guns West ... (Director)
The Beast with a Million Eyes ... (Executive Producer)
Day the World Ended as Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)
Apache Woman ... (Director)

1954

Highway Dragnet ... (Story)
The Fast and the Furious as Roadblock State Trooper (uncredited)
Monster from the Ocean Floor as Tommy (uncredited)

1950

The Gunfighter ... (Script Consultant)

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