Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works that have an already-established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low-budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1964, Corman—admired by members of the French New Wave and Cahiers du Cinéma—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 is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers". Corman 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, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13, The Manchurian Candidate, and Philadelphia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Corman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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ProductionBirthday
April 5, 1926Deathday
May 9, 2024Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
575Place of birth
Detroit, Michigan, USAAlso known as
Roger William Corman, The Pope of Pop CinemaCast credits
The Godfather Part II
Senator #2The Silence of the Lambs
FBI Director Hayden BurkeApollo 13
CongressmanScream 3
Studio ExecutiveThe Fast and the Furious
Roadblock State TrooperCannonball
District AttorneyThe State of Things
The LawyerThe Howling
Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)Body Bags
Dr. BregmanThe Wasp Woman
Hospital DoctorPopatopolis
HimselfMonster from the Ocean Floor
TommyWar of the Satellites
Ground Control (uncredited)Atlas
Greek Soldier (uncredited)Naked Paradise
Office Worker (uncredited)The Horror of It All
SelfNightmares in Red, White and Blue
SelfSharktopus
Beach BumMachete Maidens Unleashed!
SelfThe Independent
Roger CormanSchlock! The Secret History of American Movies
HimselfCrew credits
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
ProducerDeath Race
ProducerFrankenstein Unbound
Producer, Screenplay, DirectorDinocroc
Executive ProducerSupergator
Executive ProducerMunchies
ProducerThe Fast and the Furious
Story, Producer, Stunt DriverThe Haunted Palace
Director, ProducerMasque of the Red Death
ProducerFuture Fear
Executive ProducerJackson County Jail
Executive ProducerFuture Kick
Executive ProducerBlack Rose of Harlem
Executive ProducerThe Fantastic Four
Executive ProducerHouse
Executive ProducerA Bucket of Blood
Producer, DirectorAttack of the Giant Leeches
Executive ProducerThe Trip
Director, ProducerBoxcar Bertha
ProducerThe Big Bird Cage
Executive ProducerHouse of Usher
Director, Producer