Roger Corman
Production • Born 1926-04-05 – Died 2024-05-09
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.
Filmography
149 credits
The Godfather Part II
Movie • 1974
Senator #2
The Silence of the Lambs
Movie • 1991
FBI Director Hayden Burke
Apollo 13
Movie • 1995
Congressman
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Movie • 2017
Scream 3
Movie • 2000
Studio Executive
The Fast and the Furious
Movie • 1954
Roadblock State Trooper (uncredited)
The State of Things
Movie • 1982
The Lawyer
Cannonball
Movie • 1976
District Attorney
The Howling
Movie • 1981
Man in Phone Booth (uncredited)
In Hock & Staying There
Movie
Himself
Body Bags
Movie • 1993
Dr. Bregman
The Wasp Woman
Movie • 1959
Hospital Doctor (uncredited)
Popatopolis
Movie • 2009
Himself
Naked Paradise
Movie • 1957
Office Worker (uncredited)
Monster from the Ocean Floor
Movie • 1954
Tommy (uncredited)
War of the Satellites
Movie • 1958
Ground Control (uncredited)
Atlas
Movie • 1961
Greek Soldier (uncredited)
The Horror of It All
Movie • 1983
Self
Hollywood Gangster
Movie • 2008
Self
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Movie • 2009
Self
Sharktopus
Movie • 2010
Beach Bum
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Movie • 2003
Self
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Movie • 2010
Self
The Independent
Movie • 2000
Roger Corman
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Movie • 2001
Himself
Corman's World
Movie • 2011
Self - Filmmaker
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Movie • 2020
Self
The Sci-Fi Boys
Movie • 2006
Self
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Movie • 2010
Self
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Movie • 2021
Self
Sharksploitation
Movie • 2024
Self
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Movie • 2007
Self
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
Movie • 2009
Himself
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
Movie • 2013
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
Movie • 1998
Self
Corman's Comedy of Poe
Movie • 2003
Himself
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
Movie • 2015
Himself
La última película de Jess Franco
Movie • 2013
Self
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
Movie • 2005
Runaway Daughters
Movie • 1994
Mr. Randolph
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Movie • 1978
Self
Behind the Swinging Blade
Movie • 2014
Self
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
Movie
Self
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Movie • 2001
Self
That Guy Dick Miller
Movie • 2014
Self
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Movie • 2018
Self
Philadelphia
Movie • 1993
Mr. Laird
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
Movie • 2009
Self
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
Movie • 1991
Self
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
Movie • 2007
Self
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
Movie • 2004
Self
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Movie
Self
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Movie • 2007
Self
Battle of Blood Island
Movie • 1960
Soldier on Hilltop (uncredited)
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Movie • 2007
Self
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
Movie • 2010
Self
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
Movie • 2014
Self
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Movie • 2008
Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994)
Extraordinary Tales
Movie • 2015
Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Movie • 2001
Self
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Movie • 1987
Self
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Movie • 2017
Self
Kings of Cult
Movie • 2015
self
Target: Harry
Movie • 1969
Man on Phone
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
Movie • 2011
Self
Lost Explorer
Movie • 2023
Jean
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Movie • 2003
Hollywood Director
Lords of the Deep
Movie • 1989
Corporate executive (uncredited)
Some Nudity Required
Movie • 1998
Himself
Hollywood Boulevard II
Movie • 1991
Roger Corman
All the Love You Cannes!
Movie • 2002
Self
Remembering 'The Intruder'
Movie • 2001
Himself
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
Movie • 1997
Self
Rachel Getting Married
Movie • 2008
Wedding Guest
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Movie • 2015
Himself
From Manila with Love
Movie • 2011
Himself
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Movie • 2004
Self
Martin Scorsese Directs
Movie • 1990
Self
Horror Cafe
Movie • 1990
Self
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Movie • 2008
Himself
First Works
Movie • 1989
Self
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
Movie • 2001
Self
The Dark Side of Hollywood
Movie • 1998
Greetings from Tromaville!
Movie • 2017
Himself
It Came From Connemara!
Movie • 2014
Self
The Phantom Eye
Movie • 1999
Dr. Gorman
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Movie • 2007
Self
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Movie • 2019
Self
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
Movie • 1994
Self
The Second Civil War
Movie • 1997
Sandy Collins
Cry Baby Killer
Movie • 1958
Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited)
The Manchurian Candidate
Movie • 2004
Mr. Secretary
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
Movie • 2019
Self
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
Movie • 2001
Himself
A Century of Cinema
Movie • 1994
Self
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
Movie • 2012
Dean Hinkle
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
Movie • 2020
Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
Movie • 2020
Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Movie • 2020
Self
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
Movie • 2020
Self
The Wicker Man Enigma
Movie • 2001
Himself
Searchers 2.0
Movie • 2007
Producer (Flashback)
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Movie • 2010
Self
The True Story of Hannibal
Movie • 2005
Self - Producer
Swing Shift
Movie • 1984
Mr. MacBride
The Perfect Scary Movie
Movie • 2005
Self
Tales of the Uncanny
Movie • 2020
Self
SEGAL
Movie • 2025
Self
Z Dead End
Movie
Rumored
Day the World Ended
Movie • 1955
Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited)
Sodankylä Forever
Movie • 2010
Self
Dinoshark
Movie • 2010
Dr. Frank Reeves
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
Movie • 2010
Himself (archive footage)
Ski Troop Attack
Movie • 1960
German Officer (uncredited)
Ticket to Hollywood
Movie • 1984
Self
Horror!!!
Movie • 1964
Self
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
Movie • 2011
Self
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Movie • 2021
Self
A Decade Under the Influence
Movie • 2003
Self
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
Movie • 1996
Self
Ivan, the TerrirBle
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Tidal Wave
Movie • 1975
President of the United States (voice)
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Movie • 2002
Self (uncredited)
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie • 2020
(archive footage)
The Devil Ant
Movie • 1999
Himself
Hot Car Girl
Movie • 1958
Cop Who Finds Note (uncredited)
The Young Racers
Movie • 1963
Man Outside Monaco Hotel (uncredited)
Blood Bath
Movie • 1966
Antonio Sordi (in flashback) (uncredited)
Il cinema secondo Corman
Movie • 2025
Self
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
Movie • 2025
Himself
Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
Movie
Entrevistado
Beverly Hills, 90210
TV • 1990
Roger Corman
E! True Hollywood Story
TV • 1996
The Practice
TV • 1997
John Matlin
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
TV • 2010
Self
The Movies That Made Us
TV • 2019
Self
A History of Horror
TV • 2010
Self
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
TV • 2022
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
TV • 2024
Himself
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Spector
TV • 2022
Self
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
TV • 2019
Himself
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
TV • 2019
Self
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
TV • 2019
Biography
TV • 1987
Self
100 Years of Horror
TV • 1996
Self - Interview
Sodankylä Forever
TV • 2010
Self
Rebel Highway
TV • 1994
Mr. Randolph