Roger Corman

Personal Info

Known For Producer

Gender Male

Birthday 1926-04-05

Deathday 2024-05-09 (98 years old)

Place of Birth Detroit, Michigan, USA

Also Known As Roger William Corman, The Pope of Pop Cinema

Roger Corman

Biography

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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Corman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Producer

2019
Abduction

as Producer

2017
Death Race 2050

as Producer

2015
2015
CobraGator

as Executive Producer

2014
Water Wars

as Executive Producer

2014
2014
Operation Rogue

as Producer

2014
Fist of the Dragon

as Producer

2013
2013
Virtually Heroes

as Executive Producer

2013
Death Race: Inferno

as Executive Producer

2012
Piranhaconda

as Executive Producer

2012
Stealing Las Vegas

as Producer

2011
Camel Spiders

as Executive Producer

2010
Sharktopus

as Producer

2010
Dinocroc vs. Supergator

as Executive Producer

2010
Dinoshark

as Producer

2010
Death Race 2

as Executive Producer

2009
Splatter

as Producer

2009
Splatter

as Producer

2008
Death Race

as Producer

2008
Cyclops

as Producer

2007
Supergator

as Executive Producer

2007
Searchers 2.0

as Executive Producer

2006
Scorpius Gigantus

as Executive Producer

2006
Saurian

as Producer

2006
2005
Cry of the Winged Serpent

as Executive Producer

2005
Asphalt Wars

as Producer

2005
Bloodfist 2050

as Executive Producer

2004
Dinocroc

as Executive Producer

2004
2003
Barbarian

as Executive Producer

2003
Operation Balikatan

as Executive Producer

2003
Firefight

as Executive Producer

2002
Slaughter Studios

as Executive Producer

2002
Wolfhound

as Executive Producer

2002
Sting of the Black Scorpion

as Executive Producer

2002
Shakedown

as Executive Producer

2001
The Arena

as Producer

2001
Raptor

as Producer

2001
Hard as Nails

as Executive Producer

2001
Avalanche Alley

as Producer

2001
Black Scorpion

as Producer

2000
Moving Target

as Producer

2000
The Doorway

as Executive Producer

2000
Dangerous Curves

as Producer

2000
Up Against Amanda

as Producer

2000
The Suicide Club

as Producer

2000
Nightfall

as Producer

1999
Shadow Dancer

as Executive Producer

1999
Velocity

as Producer

1999
The Shepherd

as Executive Producer

1999
Enemy Action

as Producer

1999
Born Bad

as Producer

1999
1999
Stray Bullet

as Producer

1999
The Protector

as Executive Producer

1999
The Phantom Eye

as Executive Producer

1999
Knocking on Death's Door

as Executive Producer

1999
The White Pony

as Producer

1998
Desert Thunder

as Executive Producer

1998
Running Woman

as Producer

1998
Criminal Affairs

as Executive Producer

1998
Lola's Game

as Executive Producer

1998
The Capitol Conspiracy

as Executive Producer

1998
Watchers Reborn

as Executive Producer

1998
Club Vampire

as Executive Producer

1998
Termination Man

as Executive Producer

1998
Black Thunder

as Executive Producer

1997
Future Fear

as Executive Producer

1997
Black Scorpion II: Aftershock

as Executive Producer

1997
Macon County Jail

as Executive Producer

1997
Don't Sleep Alone

as Executive Producer

1997
The Haunted Sea

as Executive Producer

1997
Eruption

as Executive Producer

1997
The Sea Wolf

as Executive Producer

1997
Under Oath

as Executive Producer

1997
Alien Avengers II

as Executive Producer

1997
Operation Cobra

as Executive Producer

1997
Rumble in the Streets

as Executive Producer

1997
Overdrive

as Executive Producer

1997
Star Portal

as Producer

1997
Time Under Fire

as Producer

1997
Falling Fire

as Producer

1997
My Brother's War

as Executive Producer

1997
Spacejacked

as Executive Producer

1996
Black Rose of Harlem

as Executive Producer

1996
Ladykiller

as Producer

1996
Humanoids from the Deep

as Executive Producer

1996
Baby Face Nelson

as Executive Producer

1996
House of the Damned

as Executive Producer

1996
Last Exit to Earth

as Executive Producer

1996
Subliminal Seduction

as Executive Producer

1996
The Unspeakable

as Executive Producer

1996
Vampirella

as Executive Producer

1996
Dance with Me

as Executive Producer

1996
Death Game

as Producer

1996
Bio-Tech Warrior

as Producer

1996
Starquest II

as Producer

1996
Alien Terminator

as Producer

1996
Marquis de Sade

as Producer

1996
Alien Avengers

as Executive Producer

1996
Inhumanoid

as Executive Producer

1996
Bloodfist VIII: Hard Way Out

as Executive Producer

1995
Black Scorpion

as Executive Producer

1995
Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys

as Executive Producer

1995
Burial of the Rats

as Producer

1995
The Wasp Woman

as Executive Producer

1995
Cyberzone

as Executive Producer

1995
Not Like Us

as Producer

1995
Where Evil Lies

as Executive Producer

1995
The Alien Within

as Executive Producer

1995
Hellfire

as Producer

1995
One Night Stand

as Executive Producer

1995
Twisted Love

as Executive Producer

1995
Carnosaur 2

as Producer

1995
A Bucket of Blood

as Executive Producer

1995
Not of This Earth

as Executive Producer

1995
Suspect Device

as Executive Producer

1995
Sawbones

as Executive Producer

1995
Terminal Virus

as Producer

1995
Stripteaser

as Producer

1995
Caged Heat 3000

as Executive Producer

1995
Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure

as Executive Producer

1995
Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold

as Executive Producer

1995
Virtual Seduction

as Executive Producer

1995
Dillinger and Capone

as Executive Producer

1995
Bloodfist VII: Manhunt

as Executive Producer

1995
Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero

as Executive Producer

1995
Piranha

as Executive Producer

1995
Terminal Virus

as Executive Producer

1994
The Fantastic Four

as Executive Producer

1994
Dinosaur Island

as Executive Producer

1994
1994
1994
Saturday Night Special

as Executive Producer

1994
The Flight of the Dove

as Executive Producer

1994
Reflections on a Crime

as Executive Producer

1994
The Crazysitter

as Executive Producer

1994
Stranglehold

as Executive Producer

1994
1994
The Liars' Club

as Producer

1994
One Man Army

as Producer

1994
Terminal Voyage

as Producer

1994
Munchie Strikes Back

as Executive Producer

1994
Caroline at Midnight

as Executive Producer

1994
Watchers III

as Executive Producer

1994
Bloodfist V: Human Target

as Executive Producer

1994
The Unborn II

as Producer

1994
Cheyenne Warrior

as Executive Producer

1994
Angel of Destruction

as Executive Producer

1994
Revenge of the Red Baron

as Executive Producer

1994
Demon Keeper

as Executive Producer

1994
New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020

as Executive Producer

1993
Fire on the Amazon

as Executive Producer

1993
Carnosaur

as Executive Producer

1993
Kill Zone

as Producer

1993
To Sleep with a Vampire

as Executive Producer

1993
The Skateboard Kid

as Executive Producer

1993
Angelfist

as Executive Producer

1993
Stepmonster

as Producer

1993
Dragon Fire

as Executive Producer

1993
Live by the Fist

as Executive Producer

1993
Dracula Rising

as Producer

1993
The Turn-On

as Executive Producer

1993
Little Miss Millions

as Executive Producer

1992
Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight

as Executive Producer

1992
Final Judgement

as Executive Producer

1992
The Berlin Conspiracy

as Executive Producer

1992
Body Waves

as Executive Producer

1992
Ultraviolet

as Executive Producer

1992
Quake

as Executive Producer

1992
Quake

as Producer

1992
Munchie

as Executive Producer

1992
In the Heat of Passion

as Executive Producer

1992
1992
1992
Raiders of the Sun

as Producer

1992
Final Embrace

as Producer

1992
Dance with Death

as Executive Producer

1992
Bloodfist IV: Die Trying

as Executive Producer

1992
1992
Blackbelt

as Executive Producer

1991
Future Kick

as Executive Producer

1991
Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans

as Executive Producer

1991
To Die Standing

as Executive Producer

1991
The Terror Within II

as Executive Producer

1991
Immortal Sins

as Producer

1991
Hollywood Boulevard II

as Executive Producer

1991
Dead Space

as Executive Producer

1991
Kiss Me a Killer

as Producer

1991
The Unborn

as Producer

1991
Dune Warriors

as Producer

1991
Curse of the Crystal Eye

as Executive Producer

1990
1990
A Cry in the Wild

as Executive Producer

1990
1990
Bloodfist II

as Producer

1990
Ultra Warrior

as Executive Producer

1990
Play Murder for Me

as Executive Producer

1990
Silk 2

as Executive Producer

1990
Body Chemistry

as Executive Producer

1990
Corporate Affairs

as Executive Producer

1990
The Rain Killer

as Producer

1990
Full Fathom Five

as Producer

1990
Overexposed

as Producer

1990
Schweitzer

as Producer

1990
Streets

as Producer

1990
Watchers II

as Producer

1989
1989
Dance of the Damned

as Executive Producer

1989
Crime Zone

as Executive Producer

1989
The Terror Within

as Producer

1989
Bloodfist

as Producer

1989
Under the Boardwalk

as Executive Producer

1989
Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls

as Executive Producer

1989
1989
1989
Transylvania Twist

as Executive Producer

1989
Nowhere to Run

as Executive Producer

1989
Two to Tango

as Producer

1989
Time Trackers

as Producer

1989
Nam Angels

as Producer

1989
Think Big

as Producer

1989
1989
Heroes Stand Alone

as Producer

1989
Back to Back

as Producer

1989
Lords of the Deep

as Producer

1989
Blackbelt II: Fatal Force

as Executive Producer

1989
Think Big

as Executive Producer

1988
Warlords from Hell

as Producer

1988
Not of This Earth

as Executive Producer

1988
The Drifter

as Executive Producer

1988
1988
Emmanuelle 6

as Producer

1988
Grotesque

as Producer

1988
The Sisterhood

as Producer

1988
The Lawless Land

as Producer

1988
1988
Saigon Commandos

as Executive Producer

1988
Watchers

as Executive Producer

1988
Daddy's Boys

as Executive Producer

1988
Apprentice to Murder

as Executive Producer

1987
Munchies

as Producer

1987
Deathstalker II

as Executive Producer

1987
Slumber Party Massacre II

as Executive Producer

1987
1987
Eye of the Eagle

as Producer

1987
Stripped to Kill

as Executive Producer

1987
Summer Camp Nightmare

as Executive Producer

1987
Sweet Revenge

as Executive Producer

1987
Big Bad Mama II

as Producer

1986
Chopping Mall

as Executive Producer

1986
The Devastator

as Executive Producer

1986
Shadow Play

as Executive Producer

1986
Amazons

as Associate Producer

1986
Sorority House Massacre

as Executive Producer

1985
House

as Executive Producer

1985
Barbarian Queen

as Executive Producer

1985
Cocaine Wars

as Producer

1985
Streetwalkin'

as Producer

1985
School Spirit

as Executive Producer

1985
Naked Vengeance

as Producer

1984
The New Gladiators

as Executive Producer

1984
The Warrior and the Sorceress

as Executive Producer

1984
Oddballs

as Executive Producer

1984
Suburbia

as Producer

1983
Space Raiders

as Producer

1983
Love Letters

as Producer

1983
White Star

as Producer

1983
Deathstalker

as Executive Producer

1982
Forbidden World

as Producer

1982
Jimmy the Kid

as Producer

1982
Murder by Phone

as Producer

1982
Android

as Producer

1982
The Slumber Party Massacre

as Executive Producer

1982
Sorceress

as Executive Producer

1981
Galaxy of Terror

as Producer

1981
1981
The Territory

as Producer

1980
1980
Battle Beyond the Stars

as Executive Producer

1980
The Georgia Peaches

as Executive Producer

1980
Richard's Things

as Producer

1980
My American Uncle

as Producer

1979
Rock 'n' Roll High School

as Executive Producer

1979
The Lady in Red

as Executive Producer

1979
1979
The Prize Fighter

as Producer

1979
Up from the Depths

as Producer

1979
Saint Jack

as Producer

1979
Island of the Fishmen

as Executive Producer

1978
Piranha

as Executive Producer

1978
The Bees

as Executive Producer

1978
Avalanche

as Producer

1978
Deathsport

as Producer

1978
Outside Chance

as Executive Producer

1978
The Evil

as Executive Producer

1978
Galaxy Express 999

as Producer

1977
1977
1977
Grand Theft Auto

as Executive Producer

1977
The Ransom

as Co-Producer

1977
1976
Jackson County Jail

as Executive Producer

1976
Hollywood Boulevard

as Executive Producer

1976
Fighting Mad

as Producer

1976
Moving Violation

as Executive Producer

1976
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase

as Executive Producer

1976
God Told Me To

as Producer

1976
Eat My Dust

as Producer

1976
Nashville Girl

as Executive Producer

1976
Cannonball

as Producer

1975
Death Race 2000

as Executive Producer

1975
Capone

as Producer

1975
Darktown Strutters

as Executive Producer

1975
Cover Girl Models

as Executive Producer

1975
Darktown Strutters

as Producer

1974
Big Bad Mama

as Producer

1974
TNT Jackson

as Executive Producer

1974
Candy Stripe Nurses

as Executive Producer

1974
Cockfighter

as Producer

1974
The Arena

as Executive Producer

1974
1974
Tender Loving Care

as Producer

1974
Caged Heat

as Producer

1973
The Young Nurses

as Producer

1973
Fly Me

as Executive Producer

1972
Boxcar Bertha

as Producer

1972
The Big Bird Cage

as Executive Producer

1972
The Hot Box

as Executive Producer

1972
The Unholy Rollers

as Executive Producer

1972
Night Call Nurses

as Executive Producer

1972
The Dirt Gang

as Executive Producer

1972
The Final Comedown

as Producer

1972
The Cremators

as Producer

1972
The Big Bust-Out

as Producer

1972
Twilight People

as Executive Producer

1972
The Woman Hunt

as Executive Producer

1972
1972
Sweet Kill

as Executive Producer

1971
Women in Cages

as Producer

1971
Angels Hard as They Come

as Executive Producer

1971
The Velvet Vampire

as Executive Producer

1971
Private Duty Nurses

as Executive Producer

1971
The Beast of the Yellow Night

as Executive Producer

1971
The Big Doll House

as Executive Producer

1971
Lady Frankenstein

as Producer

1970
The Student Nurses

as Executive Producer

1970
Angels Die Hard

as Executive Producer

1970
The Dunwich Horror

as Executive Producer

1970
Bloody Mama

as Producer

1969
Pit Stop

as Executive Producer

1969
Target: Harry

as Executive Producer

1968
Targets

as Executive Producer

1968
The Wild Racers

as Executive Producer

1967
Devil's Angels

as Producer

1967
The Trip

as Producer

1966
Queen of Blood

as Executive Producer

1966
Blood Bath

as Executive Producer

1966
The Shooting

as Executive Producer

1966
The Wild Angels

as Producer

1966
1965
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet

as Executive Producer

1964
The Tomb of Ligeia

as Executive Producer

1963
Dementia 13

as Producer

1963
The Raven

as Producer

1963
The Terror

as Producer

1963
Operation Titian

as Co-Producer

1963
The Haunted Palace

as Producer

1962
1962
Tales of Terror

as Producer

1962
1962
The Intruder

as Producer

1961
1961
Atlas

as Producer

1960
House of Usher

as Producer

1960
Ski Troop Attack

as Producer

1960
1960
Battle of Blood Island

as Executive Producer

1959
A Bucket of Blood

as Producer

1959
Attack of the Giant Leeches

as Executive Producer

1959
The Wasp Woman

as Producer

1959
I, Mobster

as Producer

1959
T-Bird Gang

as Producer

1959
1959
Beast from Haunted Cave

as Executive Producer

1958
1958
Teenage Cave Man

as Producer

1958
1958
The Brain Eaters

as Executive Producer

1958
Night of the Blood Beast

as Executive Producer

1958
Machine-Gun Kelly

as Producer

1958
Hot Car Girl

as Executive Producer

1958
1957
Naked Paradise

as Producer

1957
Teenage Doll

as Producer

1957
Not of This Earth

as Producer

1957
The Undead

as Producer

1957
Rock All Night

as Producer

1957
Carnival Rock

as Producer

1957
Sorority Girl

as Producer

1956
1956
Gunslinger

as Producer

1956
The Oklahoma Woman

as Producer

1955
The Beast with a Million Eyes

as Executive Producer

1955
1955
Five Guns West

as Producer

1955
Apache Woman

as Producer

1954
1954
Highway Dragnet

as Co-Producer

Actor

Segal

as Self

Z Dead End

as Rumored

2024
2023
2022
Spector

as Self

2015
2013
Extraordinary Tales

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

2011
Corman's World

as Self - Filmmaker

2011
2010
Sharktopus

as Beach Bum

2010
2010
Dinoshark

as Dr. Frank Reeves

2009
Popatopolis

as Himself

2008
2008
Rachel Getting Married

as Wedding Guest

2008
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

as Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)

2007
Searchers 2.0

as Producer (Flashback)

2006
2005
The True Story of Hannibal

as Self - Producer

2004
The Manchurian Candidate

as Mr. Secretary

2003
Looney Tunes: Back in Action

as Hollywood Director

2003
2001
2000
The Independent

as Roger Corman

2000
Scream 3

as Studio Executive

1999
The Phantom Eye

as Dr. Gorman

1998
1997
The Second Civil War

as Sandy Collins

1997
The Practice

as John Matlin

1995
Apollo 13

as Congressman

1994
Runaway Daughters

as Mr. Randolph

1993
Philadelphia

as Mr. Laird

1993
Body Bags

as Dr. Bregman

1991
The Silence of the Lambs

as FBI Director Hayden Burke

1991
Hollywood Boulevard II

as Roger Corman

1990
Horror Cafe

as Self

1989
First Works

as Self

1989
Lords of the Deep

as Corporate executive (uncredited)

1984
Swing Shift

as Mr. MacBride

1982
The State of Things

as The Lawyer

1981
The Howling

as Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)

1976
Cannonball

as District Attorney

1974
The Godfather Part II

as Senator #2

1969
Target: Harry

as Man on Phone

1964
Horror!!!

as Self

1961
Atlas

as Greek Soldier (uncredited)

1960
Battle of Blood Island

as Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)

1960
Ski Troop Attack

as German Officer (uncredited)

1959
The Wasp Woman

as Hospital Doctor

1958
The Cry Baby Killer

as Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)

1958
War of the Satellites

as Ground Control (uncredited)

1957
Naked Paradise

as Office Worker (uncredited)

1955
Day the World Ended

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

1954
The Fast and the Furious

as Roadblock State Trooper

Director

1990
1971
1970
Bloody Mama

as Director

1969
De Sade

as Director

1969
Target: Harry

as Director

1968
The Wild Racers

as Director

1967
The Trip

as Director

1966
The Wild Angels

as Director

1964
The Tomb of Ligeia

as Director

1964
1963
The Haunted Palace

as Director

1963
The Terror

as Director

1963
The Raven

as Director

1963
The Young Racers

as Director

1962
1962
Tales of Terror

as Director

1962
Tower of London

as Director

1962
The Intruder

as Director

1961
1961
Atlas

as Director

1960
House of Usher

as Director

1960
1960
Ski Troop Attack

as Director

1959
A Bucket of Blood

as Director

1959
The Wasp Woman

as Director

1959
I, Mobster

as Director

1958
1958
Machine-Gun Kelly

as Director

1958
1958
Teenage Cave Man

as Director

1957
Not of This Earth

as Director

1957
Naked Paradise

as Director

1957
The Undead

as Director

1957
Teenage Doll

as Director

1957
Carnival Rock

as Director

1957
Rock All Night

as Director

1957
Sorority Girl

as Director

1956
Swamp Women

as Director

1956
1956
The Oklahoma Woman

as Director

1956
Gunslinger

as Director

1955
1955
Five Guns West

as Director

1955
Apache Woman

as Director

Writer

1990
Frankenstein Unbound

as Screenplay

1954
1950
The Gunfighter

as Writer

Crew

2010
Embryo

as Thanks

1954
The Fast and the Furious

as Stunt Driver

1950
The Gunfighter

as Additional Writing

Art

2014
Water Wars

as Art Direction

Creator

2001
Black Scorpion

as Creator