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)
The Suicide Club ... (Producer)
Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time ... (Producer)
Moving Target ... (Producer)
Up Against Amanda ... (Producer)
Dangerous Curves ... (Producer)

1999

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1993

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

1992

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

1991

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

1990

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

1989

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

1988

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

1987

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

1986

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

1985

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

1984

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

1983

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

1982

The Slumber Party Massacre ... (Executive Producer)
Forbidden World ... (Producer)
Sorceress ... (Executive Producer)
Murder by Phone ... (Producer)
Jimmy the Kid ... (Producer)
The State of Things as The Lawyer
Android ... (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)
Shogun Assassin ... (Producer)
Humanoids from the Deep ... (Executive Producer)
My American Uncle ... (Producer)
Richard's Things ... (Producer)
The Georgia Peaches ... (Executive Producer)
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype ... (Writer)

1979

Saint Jack ... (Producer)
The Lady in Red ... (Executive Producer)
Rock 'n' Roll High School ... (Executive Producer)
Island of the Fishmen ... (Executive 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)
The Evil ... (Executive Producer)
Avalanche ... (Producer)
The Bees ... (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)
Thunder and Lightning ... (Producer)
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden ... (Executive Producer)
Black Oak Conspiracy ... (Producer)
Ransom ... (Co-Producer)

1976

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

1975

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

1974

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

1973

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

1972

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

1971

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

1970

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

1969

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

1968

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

1967

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

1966

Ride in the Whirlwind ... (Producer)
The Wild Angels ... (Producer)
The Shooting ... (Executive Producer)
Queen of Blood ... (Executive 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 Terror ... (Director)
The Haunted Palace ... (Director)
Dementia 13 ... (Producer)
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes ... (Director)
The Young Racers as Man Outside Monaco Hotel (uncredited)
Operation Titian ... (Co-Producer)
The Sword and the Dragon ... (Producer)

1962

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

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

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

1958

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

1957

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

1956

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

1955

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

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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