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.

Cast

The Godfather Part II

The Silence of the Lambs

FBI Director Hayden Burke

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

Studio Executive

The Fast and the Furious

Roadblock State Trooper (uncredited)

The State of Things

District Attorney

Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)

In Hock & Staying There

Hospital Doctor (uncredited)

Monster from the Ocean Floor

Tommy (uncredited)

Office Worker (uncredited)

Greek Soldier (uncredited)

War of the Satellites

Ground Control (uncredited)

The Horror of It All

Hollywood Gangster

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

The Independent

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

Self - Filmmaker

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

The Sci-Fi Boys

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

Sharksploitation

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Corman's Comedy of Poe

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four

La última película de Jess Franco

Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

Runaway Daughters

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

Behind the Swinging Blade

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

That Guy Dick Miller

Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2

Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

Battle of Blood Island

Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)

Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror

Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)

Extraordinary Tales

Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')

Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

Self (archive footage)

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

Hollywood Director

Lords of the Deep

Corporate executive (uncredited)

Some Nudity Required

Hollywood Boulevard II

All the Love You Cannes!

Remembering 'The Intruder'

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

Rachel Getting Married

It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story

From Manila with Love

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Martin Scorsese Directs

The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

The Dark Side of Hollywood

Greetings from Tromaville!

It Came From Connemara!

The Phantom Eye

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

Memory: The Origins of Alien

The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters

The Second Civil War

Cry Baby Killer

Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)

The Manchurian Candidate

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man

A Century of Cinema

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

Producer (Flashback)

The Wicker Man Enigma

Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man

The True Story of Hannibal

Self - Producer

The Perfect Scary Movie

Tales of the Uncanny

Day the World Ended

Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)

Sodankylä Forever

Dr. Frank Reeves

Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres

Himself (archive footage)

Ski Troop Attack

German Officer (uncredited)

Ticket to Hollywood

Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

A Decade Under the Influence

Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

Ivan, the TerrirBle

Self (archive footage)

President of the United States (voice)

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Self (uncredited)

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

(archive footage)

Cop Who Finds Note (uncredited)

The Young Racers

Man Outside Monaco Hotel (uncredited)

Antonio Sordi (in flashback) (uncredited)

Il cinema secondo Corman

Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen

Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina

Crew

The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Haunted Palace

Director, Producer

Frankenstein Unbound

Director, Screenplay, Producer

The Fast and the Furious

Producer, Story, Stunt Driver

Executive Producer

Masque of the Red Death

Jackson County Jail

Executive Producer

Black Rose of Harlem

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Fantastic Four

Executive Producer

A Bucket of Blood

Director, Producer

Director, Producer

Attack of the Giant Leeches

Executive Producer

The Big Bird Cage

Executive Producer

Director, Producer

Director, Producer, Writer

The Little Shop of Horrors

Producer, Director, Writer

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

Director, Producer

Executive Producer

Director, Producer

A Cry in the Wild

Executive Producer

The Masque of the Red Death

Director, Producer

Attack of the Crab Monsters

Director, Producer

Executive Producer

Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys

Executive Producer

Dinosaur Island

Executive Producer

Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans

Executive Producer

Dance of the Damned

Executive Producer

Producer, Director

Executive Producer

Death Race 2000

Executive Producer

Sorority House Massacre II

It Conquered the World

Director, Producer

Not of This Earth

Director, Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Slumber Party Massacre II

Executive Producer

The Pit and the Pendulum

Producer, Director

Cry of the Winged Serpent

Executive Producer

The Premature Burial

Producer, Director

Galaxy of Terror

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Terror Within

Fire on the Amazon

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Tomb of Ligeia

Director, Executive Producer

The Secret Invasion

Director, Producer

Black Scorpion II: Aftershock

Executive Producer

Day the World Ended

Producer, Director

Director, Producer

Slaughter Studios

Executive Producer

Sting of the Black Scorpion

Executive Producer

The Beast with a Million Eyes

Executive Producer

War of the Satellites

Producer, Director

Monster from the Ocean Floor

Executive Producer

Director, Producer

Angels Hard as They Come

Executive Producer

Tales of Terror

Producer, Director

Director, Producer

Executive Producer

Scorpius Gigantus

Executive Producer

The Velvet Vampire

Executive Producer

Hollywood Boulevard

Executive Producer

Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back

The Haunting of Morella

Executive Producer

Barbarian Queen

Executive Producer

Tower of London

Executive Producer

Director, Producer

The Wild Angels

Producer, Director

Executive Producer

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Director, Producer

Machine-Gun Kelly

Director, Producer

Director, Producer

Ski Troop Attack

Producer, Director

The Young Racers

Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time

Executive Producer

Highway Dragnet

Story, Co-Producer

Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans

Executive Producer

Creature from the Haunted Sea

Director, Producer

Last Woman on Earth

Director, Producer

Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure

Executive Producer

Humanoids from the Deep

Executive Producer

Battle Beyond the Sun

Carnosaur 3: Primal Species

Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight

Executive Producer

Von Richthofen and Brown

The Unholy Rollers

Executive Producer

Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It.

Director, Producer

She Gods of Shark Reef

Executive Producer

The Oklahoma Woman

Director, Producer

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent

Producer, Director

Director, Producer

Director, Producer

Director, Producer

Director, Producer

Director, Executive Producer

Night Call Nurses

Executive Producer

Candy Stripe Nurses

Executive Producer

Private Duty Nurses

Executive Producer

Under the Boardwalk

Executive Producer

Director, Producer

Teenage Cave Man

Producer, Director

Where Evil Lies

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Final Comedown

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Final Judgement

Executive Producer

The Alien Within

Executive Producer

Warlords from Hell

Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls

Executive Producer

Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom

Executive Producer

Art Direction, Executive Producer

Director, Producer

Cry Baby Killer

The Young Nurses

Director, Producer

Executive Producer

Food of the Gods II

Macon County Jail

Executive Producer

Don't Sleep Alone

Executive Producer

Criminal Affairs

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Baby Face Nelson

Executive Producer

Body Chemistry III: Point of Seduction

Executive Producer

Last Stand at Lang Mei

To Sleep with a Vampire

Executive Producer

The Skateboard Kid

Executive Producer

Saturday Night Special

Executive Producer

The Haunted Sea

Executive Producer

Dangerous Curves

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Forbidden World

Subliminal Seduction

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

House of the Damned

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Last Exit to Earth

Executive Producer

One Night Stand

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Transylvania Twist

Executive Producer

The Berlin Conspiracy

Executive Producer

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

The Unspeakable

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

To Die Standing

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Moving Violation

Executive Producer

Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia

The Student Nurses

Executive Producer

The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda

Executive Producer

Operation Balikatan

Executive Producer

Alien Avengers II

Executive Producer

A Bucket of Blood

Executive Producer

Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

I Escaped from Devil's Island

Reflections on a Crime

Executive Producer

The Capitol Conspiracy

Executive Producer

Operation Cobra

Executive Producer

Play Murder for Me

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Rumble in the Streets

Executive Producer

The Crazysitter

Executive Producer

Not of This Earth

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Dinocroc vs. Supergator

Executive Producer

The Terror Within II

Executive Producer

Not of This Earth

Executive Producer

The New Gladiators

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Haunting of Hell House

In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Warrior and the Sorceress

Executive Producer

Darktown Strutters

Executive Producer, Producer

Executive Producer, Producer

The Brain Eaters

Executive Producer

Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf

Battle Beyond the Stars

Executive Producer

Rock 'n' Roll High School

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Corporate Affairs

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Operation Rogue

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

High School Big Shot

The Georgia Peaches

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Cover Girl Models

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Lady in Red

Executive Producer

The Beast of the Yellow Night

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

In the Heat of Passion

Executive Producer

Palace of the Damned

Producer, Executive Producer

Stealing Las Vegas

A Very Unlucky Leprechaun

Fist of the Dragon

Full Fathom Five

Time Under Fire

The Rain Killer

The Liars' Club

No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn

Saturday the 14th Strikes Back

White Wolves - A Cry in the Wild II

Crisis in the Kremlin

Raiders of the Sun

Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders

Beyond the Call of Duty

Ministry of Vengeance

Heroes Stand Alone

The Lawless Land

Producer, Executive Producer

Purple People Eater

Beast from Haunted Cave

Executive Producer

When Life Gives You Lemons

Terminal Voyage

A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun

Black Oak Conspiracy

Richard's Things

Bio-Tech Warrior

Leopard in the Snow

The Prize Fighter

Alien Terminator

Avalanche Alley

Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song

Eye of the Eagle

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II

Down and Dirty Duck

The Navy vs. the Night Monsters

Up from the Depths

Up Against Amanda

Murder by Phone

Executive Producer

Night of the Blood Beast

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Thunder and Lightning

The Suicide Club

Stripped to Kill

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Munchie Strikes Back

Executive Producer

The Slumber Party Massacre

Executive Producer

Caged Heat 3000

Executive Producer

Death Race 2050

Live by the Fist

Executive Producer

The Crucified Girls of San Ramon

Lords of the Deep

Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure

Executive Producer

Scream of the Demon Lover

Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold

Executive Producer

Hollywood Boulevard II

Executive Producer

Blackbelt II: Fatal Force

Executive Producer

Tender Loving Care

My Brother's War

Executive Producer

Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell

Executive Producer

Virtually Heroes

Executive Producer

Caroline at Midnight

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

The Twilight People

Executive Producer

Night of the Cobra Woman

The Big Doll House

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Virtual Seduction

Executive Producer

Operation Titian

Wizards of the Lost Kingdom

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Summer Camp Nightmare

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Saigon Commandos

Executive Producer

The Hunt for Eagle One

Associate Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Grand Theft Auto

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

My American Uncle

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

Executive Producer

The Wild Racers

Director, Executive Producer

Angels Die Hard

Executive Producer

Little Miss Millions

Executive Producer

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Kiss Me a Killer

The Phantom Eye

Executive Producer

Knocking on Death's Door

Executive Producer

The Dunwich Horror

Executive Producer

Watchers Reborn

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Ride in the Whirlwind

Dance with Death

Executive Producer

Dillinger and Capone

Executive Producer

Sorority House Massacre

Executive Producer

Bloodfist VII: Manhunt

Executive Producer

Bloodfist V: Human Target

Executive Producer

Lady Frankenstein

Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero

Executive Producer

Bloodfist IV: Die Trying

Executive Producer

Stakeout on Dope Street

Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill

Executive Producer

Body Chemistry II: Voice of a Stranger

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Naked Vengeance

Termination Man

Executive Producer

Death Race: Inferno

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Smokey Bites the Dust

Apprentice to Murder

Executive Producer

Battle of Blood Island

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Cheyenne Warrior

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Executive Producer

Angel of Destruction

Executive Producer

Curse of the Crystal Eye

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Island of the Fishmen

Executive Producer

Big Bad Mama II

Revenge of the Red Baron

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020

Executive Producer

Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman

Executive Producer

Hour of the Assassin

Executive Producer

Little Shop of Horrors

Original Film Writer

Executive Producer

Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon

Executive Producer

Script Consultant, Story Editor

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Shogun Assassin

Cybermaster: Shepherd II

Executive Producer

Marquis de Sade

Executive Producer

When the Bullet Hits the Bone

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Executive Producer

Burial of the Rats

Executive Producer

Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus!

Humanoids from the Deep

Executive Producer

Rage and Discipline

Executive Producer

Executive Producer