Cast

Roger Corman

Production

Cast

Roger Corman

Known for

Production

Born

1926-04-05

From

Detroit, Michigan, USA

Died

2024-05-09

Also known as Roger William Corman, The Pope of Pop Cinema, راجر کورمن

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.

Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Biography

The Godfather Part II

Apollo 13

Scream 3

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

The Silence of the Lambs

Philadelphia

Rachel Getting Married

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

The Manchurian Candidate

Cannonball

Sharktopus

Corman's World

Some Nudity Required

All the Love You Cannes!

Horror Cafe

The Howling

Dinoshark

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

The Perfect Scary Movie

Extraordinary Tales

That Guy Dick Miller

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

Martin Scorsese Directs

The Horror Hall of Fame II

The Independent

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

Body Bags

Tales of the Uncanny

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

Remembering 'The Intruder'

Battle of Blood Island

The Sci-Fi Boys

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

The Phantom Eye

Swing Shift

Atlas

The Devil Ant

A Century of Cinema

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

Horror!!!

Lords of the Deep

Memory: The Origins of Alien

Sharksploitation

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

The Horror of It All

Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2

Day the World Ended

Kings of Cult

Tidal Wave

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

The Second Civil War

Target: Harry

The Fast and the Furious

Ski Troop Attack

The Wasp Woman

Runaway Daughters

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

The Wicker Man Enigma

The State of Things

The Young Racers

Corman's Comedy of Poe

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

Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman

Il cinema secondo Corman

Hollywood Gangster

Lost Explorer

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

SEGAL

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

Hollywood Boulevard II