Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal. He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Known for
ActingBirthday
February 4, 1948Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
141Place of birth
Detroit, Michigan, USAAlso known as
Vincent Damon Furnier![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/lS5th9izeqpYMM9iAvEqF4ZsjjH.jpg)
Cast credits
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Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4vAzTfw0g70BM1dAx7vdRNIhKMm.jpg)
Roadie
Alice Cooper![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/e4qh58n2WaG4Gyh9VhjOUeN9Mhv.jpg)
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Mr. Underwood![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/jjcAOhtGuX4p8XvlVn1WXUT1jWi.jpg)
Prince of Darkness
Street Schizo![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/nhQtlLVl2z5ywu2uDnXjVqi08On.jpg)
Wayne's World
Alice Cooper![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/kdNkiqmMeJfaD8ybjiV6bVOrcQ8.jpg)
The Filth and the Fury
Self (archive footage)![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4OpYG6cQ5R9Kfd9QO4mZn29DwVI.jpg)
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/Ben7ogJNNjWhzwVeo7LZYgiHPH.jpg)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Father Sun![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/4u8gfmUvuYxvVAZ6ysXjjHYSCXc.jpg)
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
Lead Vocal![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/23cE4h55B8fgtt0XiQZZNWE3RfH.jpg)
Suck
Bartender![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/d7A9pVX8OSWMSSjPBsIc1jAMP0y.jpg)
Dark Shadows
Alice Cooper![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/b0p8CjMLWc7B1nnIfFQ2uY3HLe0.jpg)
The Attic Expeditions
Samuel Leventhal![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/eqyAfflMkdJltqvAkJUuYtQeF7N.jpg)
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/7hZDmLGUk4UUaLhACRKrU4rzxlM.jpg)
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
Self - Vocals![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/wefwuTe2d2m5HYTMGPxuE3PkOCT.jpg)
WWE WrestleMania III
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/xj6YpG93RjzryMdue93rcbUHK4r.jpg)
Lemmy
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/sf240LHhfFFqbnm8cPaosBgOD3W.jpg)
Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/zzVbGghcYUa07sqWlA2R7TYbsdE.jpg)
Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear
Self![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/h632/aGb8qRCgTU0cQlSwBrS1w9PG2ok.jpg)
Monster Dog
Victor Raven