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

1999

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

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

1991

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

1990

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

1989

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

1988

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

1987

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

1986

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

1985

Barbarian Queen ... (Executive Producer)
Wizards of the Lost Kingdom ... (Producer)
Streetwalkin' ... (Producer)
School Spirit ... (Executive Producer)
Naked Vengeance ... (Producer)
Cocaine Wars ... (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)
Space Raiders ... (Producer)
Love Letters ... (Producer)
The Horror of It All as Self
Mountaintop Motel Massacre ... (Producer)
White Star ... (Producer)

1982

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

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

1979

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

1978

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

1977

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

1976

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

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
Death Race 2000 ... (Executive Producer)
Capone ... (Producer)
Tidal Wave as President of the United States (voice)
Cover Girl Models ... (Executive Producer)
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)
Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman ... (Executive Producer)
I Escaped from Devil's Island ... (Producer)
The Young Nurses ... (Producer)
Stacey ... (Producer)

1972

Boxcar Bertha ... (Producer)
The Big Bird Cage ... (Executive Producer)
Night Call Nurses ... (Executive Producer)
Sweet Kill ... (Executive Producer)
The Twilight People ... (Executive Producer)
The Crucified Girls of San Ramon ... (Producer)
The Unholy Rollers ... (Executive Producer)
The Cremators ... (Producer)
Night of the Cobra Woman ... (Producer)
The Dirt Gang ... (Executive Producer)
The Hot Box ... (Executive Producer)
The Final Comedown ... (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)
Angels Hard as They Come ... (Executive Producer)
The Beast of the Yellow Night ... (Executive Producer)
The Velvet Vampire ... (Executive Producer)
Private Duty Nurses ... (Executive Producer)

1970

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

1969

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

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

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

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

1962

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

1961

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

1960

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

1959

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

1958

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

1957

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

1956

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

1955

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

1954

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

1950

The Gunfighter ... (Script Consultant)

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