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 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.
Movies (124)
Il cinema secondo Corman
2025
SEGAL
2025
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
2025
Sharksploitation
2024
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
2024
Lost Explorer
2023
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2021
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Ivan, the TerrirBle
2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
2020
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2020
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
2020
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
2018
Greetings from Tromaville!
2017
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2017
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
2015
Kings of Cult
2015
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
2015
Extraordinary Tales
2015
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
2014
It Came From Connemara!
2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
2014
That Guy Dick Miller
2014
La última película de Jess Franco
2013
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
2013
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
2012
Corman's World
2011
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
2011
From Manila with Love
2011
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
2011
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
2010
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
2010
Sharktopus
2010
Sodankylä Forever
2010
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
2010
Dinoshark
2010
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009
Popatopolis
2009
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
2009
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
2008
Rachel Getting Married
2008
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
2008
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
2007
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
2007
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
2007
Searchers 2.0
2007
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
2007
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
2007
The Sci-Fi Boys
2006
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
2005
The Perfect Scary Movie
2005
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
2004
The Manchurian Candidate
2004
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
2003
A Decade Under the Influence
2003
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
2001
The Wicker Man Enigma
2001
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
2001
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
2001
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
2001
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
2001
The Independent
2000
Scream 3
2000
The Phantom Eye
1999
The Devil Ant
1999
Some Nudity Required
1998
The Dark Side of Hollywood
1998
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
1998
The Second Civil War
1997
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
1997
Apollo 13
1995
Runaway Daughters
1994
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
1994
A Century of Cinema
1994
Philadelphia
1993
Body Bags
1993
The Silence of the Lambs
1991
Hollywood Boulevard II
1991
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
Horror Cafe
1990
First Works
1989
Lords of the Deep
1989
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
1987
Swing Shift
1984
The Horror of It All
1983
The State of Things
1982
The Howling
1981
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
1978
Cannonball
1976
Tidal Wave
1975
The Godfather Part II
1974
Target: Harry
1969
Blood Bath
1966
Horror!!!
1964
The Young Racers
1963
Atlas
1961
Battle of Blood Island
1960
Ski Troop Attack
1960
The Wasp Woman
1959
Hot Car Girl
1958
Cry Baby Killer
1958
War of the Satellites
1958
Naked Paradise
1957
Day the World Ended
1955
The Fast and the Furious
1954
Monster from the Ocean Floor
1954
In Hock & Staying There
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Z Dead End
Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
TV Shows (19)
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
2024
Spector
2022
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
2022
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
2020
The Movies That Made Us
2019
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
2019
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
2019
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
2019
Conan
2010
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
A History of Horror
2010
Sodankylä Forever
2010
The Practice
1997
100 Years of Horror
1996
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Rebel Highway
1994
Beverly Hills, 90210
1990
Biography
1987
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975