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Known For
Production
Birthday
April 5, 1926
Died
May 9, 2024
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Also Known As
- Roger William Corman
- The Pope of Pop Cinema
- راجر کورمن
- The King of The B’s
Roger Corman
1.3 Popularity
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 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.
Known For
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Self
Il cinema secondo Corman
2025
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Self
SEGAL
2025
8.0
Himself
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
2025
0.0
Self
Sharksploitation
2024
0.0
Himself
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
2024
0.0
Jean
Lost Explorer
2023
6.3
Self
Spector
2022
7.5
Self
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
2022
7.0
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
7.0
Self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
Credits
Il cinema secondo Corman
as Self
2025
0.0
SEGAL
as Self
2025
0.0
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
as Himself
2025
8.0
Sharksploitation
as Self
2024
0.0
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
as Himself
2024
0.0
Lost Explorer
as Jean
2023
0.0
Spector
as Self
2022
6.3
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
as Self
2022
7.5
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
7.0
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
as Self
2021
7.0
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
as Self (archive footage)
2021
4.7
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
as Self
2021
6.0
Tales of the Uncanny
as Self
2020
7.0
Ivan, the TerrirBle
as Self (archive footage)
2020
1.0
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
as Self
2020
6.8
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
as Self
2020
6.4
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
as Self
2020
6.5
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
as Self
2020
8.0
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
as (archive footage)
2020
0.0
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
as Self
2020
10.0
The Movies That Made Us
as Self
2019
7.2
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
as Himself
2019
9.0
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
as Self
2019
6.2
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
2019
7.3
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
as Self
2019
7.3
Memory: The Origins of Alien
as Self
2019
6.3
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
2018
6.0
Greetings from Tromaville!
as Himself
2017
0.0
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
as Self
2017
0.0
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017
7.7
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
as Himself
2015
10.0
Kings of Cult
as self
2015
7.5
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
as Himself
2015
6.7
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
as Self
2014
6.0
It Came From Connemara!
as Self
2014
4.5
Behind the Swinging Blade
as Self
2014
0.0
That Guy Dick Miller
as Self
2014
7.0
La última película de Jess Franco
as Self
2013
6.0
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
2013
7.7
Extraordinary Tales
as Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
2013
6.5
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
as Dean Hinkle
2012
5.4
Corman's World
as Self - Filmmaker
2011
7.1
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
as Self
2011
0.0
From Manila with Love
as Himself
2011
0.0
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
as Self
2011
7.7
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
as Self
2010
8.3
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
as Self
2010
5.4
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
as Self
2010
6.6
A History of Horror
as Self
2010
7.1
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
as Himself (archive footage)
2010
3.7
Sharktopus
as Beach Bum
2010
4.2
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010
0.0
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
as Self
2010
6.8
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
2010
6.4
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
as Self
2010
2.0
Dinoshark
as Dr. Frank Reeves
2010
4.2
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
as Self
2009
6.6
Popatopolis
as Himself
2009
6.4
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
as Self
2009
5.0
🎬
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
as Himself
2009
5.0
🎬
Hollywood Gangster
as Self
2008
0.0
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
as Himself
2008
0.0
Rachel Getting Married
as Wedding Guest
2008
6.3
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
as Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)
2008
6.5
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
as Self
2007
7.8
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
as Self
2007
6.8
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
as Self
2007
6.9
Searchers 2.0
as Producer (Flashback)
2007
6.2
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
as Self
2007
5.0
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
as Self
2007
9.0
The Sci-Fi Boys
as Self
2006
7.0
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2005
7.3
The Perfect Scary Movie
as Self
2005
7.5
🎬
The True Story of Hannibal
as Self - Producer
2005
6.7
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
as Self
2004
6.0
The Manchurian Candidate
as Mr. Secretary
2004
6.5
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
as Self
2004
6.0
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
as Hollywood Director
2003
6.4
🎬
Corman's Comedy of Poe
as Himself
2003
0.0
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
2003
7.9
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
2003
7.1
All the Love You Cannes!
as Self
2002
6.4
🎬
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (uncredited)
2002
0.0
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
as Himself
2001
7.0
The Wicker Man Enigma
as Himself
2001
6.0
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
as Self
2001
0.0
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
as Self
2001
7.3
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
as Self
2001
6.8
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
as Himself
2001
6.7
🎬
Remembering 'The Intruder'
as Himself
2001
0.0
The Independent
as Roger Corman
2000
5.4
Scream 3
as Studio Executive
2000
6.0
The Phantom Eye
as Dr. Gorman
1999
8.0
The Devil Ant
as Himself
1999
0.0
Some Nudity Required
as Himself
1998
4.6
The Dark Side of Hollywood
1998
0.0
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
as Self
1998
3.0
The Second Civil War
as Sandy Collins
1997
6.0
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
as Self
1997
6.4
The Practice
as John Matlin
1997
7.6
100 Years of Horror
as Self - Interview
1996
6.3
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
8.1
🎬
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
as Self
1996
0.0
Apollo 13
as Congressman
1995
7.5
Runaway Daughters
as Mr. Randolph
1994
5.4
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
as Self
1994
7.5
A Century of Cinema
as Self
1994
8.0
Philadelphia
as Mr. Laird
1993
7.7
Body Bags
as Dr. Bregman
1993
6.1
🎬
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
as Self
1991
0.0
The Silence of the Lambs
as FBI Director Hayden Burke
1991
8.3
Hollywood Boulevard II
as Roger Corman
1991
3.7
Beverly Hills, 90210
as Roger Corman
1990
7.3
Martin Scorsese Directs
as Self
1990
9.0
Horror Cafe
as Self
1990
8.5
First Works
as Self
1989
0.0
Lords of the Deep
as Corporate executive (uncredited)
1989
2.9
Biography
as Self
1987
6.5
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
as Self
1987
0.0
🎬
Ticket to Hollywood
as Self
1984
0.0
Swing Shift
as Mr. MacBride
1984
5.5
The Horror of It All
as Self
1983
8.0
The State of Things
as The Lawyer
1982
6.4
The Howling
as Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
1981
6.6
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
as Self
1978
7.4
Cannonball
as District Attorney
1976
5.5
Tidal Wave
as President of the United States (voice)
1975
0.0
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as Self
1975
6.0
The Godfather Part II
as Senator #2
1974
8.6
Target: Harry
as Man on Phone
1969
5.6
Blood Bath
as Antonio Sordi (in flashback) (uncredited)
1966
5.5
Horror!!!
as Self
1964
1.0
The Young Racers
as Man Outside Monaco Hotel (uncredited)
1963
5.0
Atlas
as Greek Soldier (uncredited)
1961
3.1
Battle of Blood Island
as Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)
1960
4.8
Ski Troop Attack
as German Officer (uncredited)
1960
4.5
The Wasp Woman
as Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
1959
4.4
Hot Car Girl
as Cop Who Finds Note (uncredited)
1958
6.0
Cry Baby Killer
as Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)
1958
5.5
War of the Satellites
as Ground Control (uncredited)
1958
5.0
Naked Paradise
as Office Worker (uncredited)
1957
3.8
Day the World Ended
as Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)
1955
4.9
The Fast and the Furious
as Roadblock State Trooper (uncredited)
1954
4.9
Monster from the Ocean Floor
as Tommy (uncredited)
1954
3.5
Z Dead End
as Rumored
N/A
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Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
as Entrevistado
N/A
0.0
In Hock & Staying There
as Himself
N/A
0.0
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
as Self
N/A
0.0
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
as Self
N/A
0.0