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Roger Corman
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 T…
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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.
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2026
All My Friends Are Back In Brisbane
Movie Thanks
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2025
Il cinema secondo Corman
Movie Self
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2025
SEGAL
Movie Self
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2025
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
Movie Himself
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2025
Occupy Cannes!
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
DinoGator
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Sharksploitation
Movie Self
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2024
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
TV show Himself
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2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Movie Self (archive) - filmmaker, producer
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2023
Lost Explorer
Movie Jean
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2022
Spector
TV show Self
- 2022
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2021
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Movie Self
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2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Movie Self
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2020
Tales of the Uncanny
Movie Self
More credits
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2020
Ivan, the TerrirBle
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Movie Self
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2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Movie Self
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2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Movie Self
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2020
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
TV show Self
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2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie (archive footage)
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2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
Movie Self
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2020
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Movie Self
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2019
The Movies That Made Us
TV show Self
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2019
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
TV show Himself
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2019
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
Movie Self
- 2019
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2019
Abduction
Movie Producer
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2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Movie Self
- 2018
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2017
Greetings from Tromaville!
Movie Self
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2017
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Movie Self
- 2017
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2017
Death Race 2050
Movie Producer
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2015
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Movie Himself
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2015
Kings of Cult
Movie self
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2015
Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
Movie Producer
- 2015
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2015
Extraordinary Tales
Movie Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
