Roger Corman
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.
152 acting credits · 56 directing credits
Acting · 152
Conan
2010
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990
The Practice
1997
The Godfather Part II
1974
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
2019
Biography
1987
The Movies That Made Us
2019
Rebel Highway
1994
Apollo 13
1995
Scream 3
2000
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Philadelphia
1993
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2003
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Rachel Getting Married
2008
A History of Horror
2010
The Howling
1981
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
2011
100 Years of Horror
1996
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
Body Bags
1993
Spector
2022
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
Cannonball
1976
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
Corman's World
2011
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002
The Second Civil War
1997
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Sharktopus
2010
A Century of Cinema
1994
Swing Shift
1984
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
2024
The Independent
2000
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
2012
Extraordinary Tales
2015
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020
Tidal Wave
1975
The Fast and the Furious
1954
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
2008
The True Story of Hannibal
2005
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
Runaway Daughters
1994
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010
The Wasp Woman
1959
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
2024
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020
Naked Paradise
1957
Blood Bath
1966
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
The Perfect Scary Movie
2005
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
SEGAL
2025
Day the World Ended
1955
Sharksploitation
2024
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
2019
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
2009
Lords of the Deep
1989
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
2010
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
2001
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
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War of the Satellites
1958
Dinoshark
2010
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
Popatopolis
2009
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
1978
That Guy Dick Miller
2014
The Horror of It All
1983
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
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Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
2015
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
2011
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
2010
Some Nudity Required
1998
The Young Racers
1963
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2005
Target: Harry
1969
Atlas
1961
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
2001
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
2014
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007
Hot Car Girl
1958
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
2010
Cry Baby Killer
1958
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
1987
The State of Things
1982
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
2007
Greetings from Tromaville!
2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017
Monster from the Ocean Floor
1954
First Works
1989
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
1997
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
2009
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2021
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
2019
Ski Troop Attack
1960
Hollywood Boulevard II
1991
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
2017
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
2020
Z Dead End
—
The Wicker Man Enigma
2001
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
2018
Searchers 2.0
2007
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
2020
The Phantom Eye
1999
La última película de Jess Franco
2013
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
1994
Hollywood Gangster
2008
From Manila with Love
2011
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
2001
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
2013
Ivan, the TerrirBle
2020
Horror Cafe
1990
Horror!!!
1964
The Dark Side of Hollywood
1998
Il cinema secondo Corman
2025
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
2025
Kings of Cult
2015
It Came From Connemara!
2014
Ticket to Hollywood
1984
Battle of Blood Island
1960
The Horror Hall of Fame II
1991
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014
In Hock & Staying There
—
The Devil Ant
1999
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
2008
Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
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It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
2015
Remembering 'The Intruder'
2001
Lost Explorer
2023
Corman's Comedy of Poe
2003
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
1996
Directing · 56
Battle Beyond the Stars
1980
A Time for Killing
1967
The Haunted Palace
1963
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967
The Trip
1967
The Pit and the Pendulum
1961
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960
The Premature Burial
1962
The Masque of the Red Death
1964
The Intruder
1962
The Raven
1963
The Terror
1963
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
1963
The Beast with a Million Eyes
1955
House of Usher
1960
Frankenstein Unbound
1990
The Wild Angels
1966
Deathsport
1978
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.
1970
Bloody Mama
1970
Von Richthofen and Brown
1971
Tales of Terror
1962
Swamp Women
1956
The Wasp Woman
1959
I, Mobster
1959
Attack of the Crab Monsters
1957
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
1957
Naked Paradise
1957
Machine-Gun Kelly
1958
Not of This Earth
1957
Day the World Ended
1955
Teenage Doll
1957
The Tomb of Ligeia
1964
It Conquered the World
1956
De Sade
1969
The Undead
1957
The Secret Invasion
1964
Tower of London
1962
Teenage Cave Man
1958
Gunslinger
1956
A Bucket of Blood
1959
Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961
War of the Satellites
1958
Last Woman on Earth
1960
The Wild Racers
1968
The Young Racers
1963
Target: Harry
1969
Atlas
1961
Rock All Night
1957
Apache Woman
1955
She Gods of Shark Reef
1958
Sorority Girl
1957
Five Guns West
1955
Carnival Rock
1957
Ski Troop Attack
1960
The Oklahoma Woman
1956