Alice Cooper
Acting • Born 1948-02-04
Biography
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal. He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Filmography
189 credits
The Perfect Scary Movie
Movie • 2005
Self
The History of Metal and Horror
Movie • 2021
Self
Roadie
Movie • 1980
Self
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Movie • 2005
Self
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
Movie • 2021
Self
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Movie • 1991
Mr. Underwood
Prince of Darkness
Movie • 1987
Street Schizo
Wayne's World
Movie • 1992
Self
The Filth and the Fury
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
Movie • 2023
Self
Cum On Feel The Noize
Movie • 2017
Self
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
Movie • 1997
Self
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Movie • 1978
Father Sun
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
Movie • 2007
Self
Live Eighties
Movie • 2004
Self
Larry presents: Best of The 80s
Movie • 2004
Self
Zappa
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
Movie • 2006
Lead Vocal
Suck
Movie • 2009
Bartender
Dark Shadows
Movie • 2012
Self
The Attic Expeditions
Movie • 2001
Samuel Leventhal
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
Movie • 2004
Self
Spooks & Creeps
Movie • 2004
Pirate Jack ("Freakshow")
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
Movie • 2010
Self - Vocals
WWE WrestleMania III
Movie • 1987
Self
Lemmy
Movie • 2010
Self
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
Movie • 2000
Self - Vocals
Alice Cooper: Trashes The World
Movie • 1990
Self - Vocals
Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear
Movie • 2011
Self
Monster Dog
Movie • 1988
Victor Raven
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns
Movie • 1987
Self - Vocals
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
Movie • 1974
Self - Vocals
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
Movie • 1976
Steven / Alice
VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments
Movie • 2009
Self
Sextette
Movie • 1978
Waiter
Rock this Town
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Bigfoot
Movie • 2012
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
Movie • 1979
Self
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
Movie • 1991
Self
Rockthology 2
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
Movie • 2013
Self
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
Movie • 2023
Self
The Freddy Krueger Special
Movie • 1988
Self
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Movie • 2023
Self
Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre
Movie • 2011
Self
Spooktacular!
Movie • 2023
Self
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film
Movie • 2013
Self
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Movie • 2013
Self
I Love Muppets
Movie • 2002
Self
Best Ever Muppet Moments
Movie • 2006
Self
Super Duper Alice Cooper
Movie • 2014
Self (voice)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Movie • 2010
Self
Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)
Movie • 2022
Self - Vocals
Alice Cooper: Live at Wacken Open Air 2013
Movie • 2013
Self
Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8
Movie • 2004
Self
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini
Movie • 2015
Self
An Honest Liar
Movie • 2014
Self
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
Movie • 1975
Steven
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
Movie • 2022
Self
A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
Movie • 1994
Self
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Movie • 2001
Self
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Movie • 1970
Alice Cooper
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
Movie • 2022
Self
Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)
Movie • 2014
Self - Vocals
From Straight to Bizarre
Movie • 2012
Self
Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie
Movie • 2014
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Movie • 2022
Self - Presenter
Prachtig 80: Volume 2
Movie • 2003
Self
The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One
Movie • 2001
Self
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Movie • 2023
Self
When Woodstock Was Young
Movie • 2009
Self
Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting
Movie • 2022
Self
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
Movie • 2012
Self
Hired Gun
Movie • 2017
Self
Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection
Movie • 2003
Self
Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
Movie • 1991
Self
Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
Movie • 2024
Self
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
Movie • 1988
Self
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Movie • 2019
Self - Musician
Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf
Movie • 2019
Self
This Is America Part 2
Movie • 1980
Self (archive footage)
Medicine Ball Caravan
Movie • 1971
Self
The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics
Movie • 2011
Self
Skum Rocks!
Movie • 2013
Self / Narrator (voice)
Danny Says
Movie • 2015
Self
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Movie • 2003
Self
Sunset Strip
Movie • 2012
Self
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1
Movie • 1989
Self
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7
Movie • 1990
Self
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3
Movie • 1989
Self
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15
Movie • 1992
Self
Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017
Movie • 2017
Self - Vocals
Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970
Movie • 1970
Self
To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100
Movie • 2015
Self
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
Movie • 2018
King Herod
Rock-a-bye
Movie • 1973
Self
Grease Day USA
Movie • 1978
Self
Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018
Movie • 2018
Self
Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017
Movie • 2017
Self - Vocals
25 Years of Punk
Movie • 2001
Self
Let it Rock: Volume 1
Movie • 2003
Self
Freakshow
Movie • 1999
Pirate Jack (voice)
Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik
Movie • 2018
Self
This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
Movie • 2009
Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper à Paris
Movie • 1982
Self
Promised Land of Heavy Metal
Movie • 2008
Self (archive footage)
Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean
Movie • 2019
Self
Suzi Q
Movie • 2019
Self
40 Years of Star Trek
Movie • 2006
Self
Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Movie • 2018
Self
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
Movie • 2018
Self
The Art of McCartney
Movie • 2014
Self
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Movie • 2013
Self
Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11
Movie • 2013
Self
Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972
Movie • 2014
Self
Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974
Movie • 2012
Self
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
Movie • 2013
Self
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1979
Movie • 2007
Self
Alice Cooper - AVO Session
Movie • 2012
Self
Alice Cooper and Friends
Movie • 1978
Self
Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012
Movie • 2012
Self
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives
Movie • 2020
Self
Rock Camp: The Movie
Movie • 2021
Self
House of Cardin
Movie • 2019
Self
Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris
Movie • 2017
Self
Alice Cooper
Movie • 1970
Self
When Rock Ruled the World
Movie • 2002
Self
Glam Rock at the BBC
Movie • 2017
Self (archive footage)
A Band Called Death
Movie • 2013
Self
Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip
Movie • 2014
Self
Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep
Movie • 2007
Self - Vocals
Back To The 80's - Live In Concert
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
The Yardbirds: In Their Own Words
Movie • 2024
The Story of the Yardbirds
Movie • 2008
Self
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Movie • 2020
(archive footage)
Dreams
Movie • 2025
Self
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
Movie • 1987
Self
Hollywood Vampires: Live In Rio
Movie • 2023
Lead & Backing Vocals / Harmonica / Rhythm Guitar
Jim Henson Idea Man
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Life After Dead: The Ladies of the Evil Dead
Movie • 2007
Self
Muppet Video: Rock Music with the Muppets
Movie
Self (Archive Footage)
That '70s Show
TV • 1998
Alice Cooper
This Morning
TV • 1988
Self
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Monk
TV • 2002
Alice Cooper
The Muppet Show
TV • 1976
Self - Special Guest Star
Pink Lady
TV • 1980
Alice Cooper
The Frank Skinner Show
TV • 1995
Self
Where Are They Now?
TV • 1999
Self
The Top Ten Revealed
TV • 2018
Self
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
TV • 1999
Self
Live from Studio Five
TV • 2009
Self
100 Most Shocking Music Moments
TV • 2009
Self
Tony Orlando and Dawn
TV • 1974
Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
TV • 2003
Self - Musical Guest
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
TV • 1994
Self
Disco
TV • 1971
Self
Rove
TV • 1999
Self
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
The Graham Norton Show
TV • 2007
Self
Top Gear
TV • 2002
Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
Leute heute
TV • 1997
Self
Room 101
TV • 1994
Self
Jonathan & Jesus
TV • 2024
Self
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 1996
Self
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TV • 1996
Self - Host
Celebrity Ghost Stories
TV • 2009
Self
The Mike Douglas Show
TV • 1961
Self
Die ultimative Chartshow
TV • 2003
Self
WWF Wrestling Challenge
TV • 1986
Self
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
TV • 1975
Self
Counting Cars
TV • 2012
Self - Host
Stars in the House
TV • 2020
Self
Classic Albums
TV • 1997
Self
Reunited Apart
TV • 2020
Self
Laurel Canyon
TV • 2020
Self
Trigger Happy TV
TV • 2000
Bubble Guppies
TV • 2011
Windy Pete (voice)
The Snoop Sisters
TV • 1973
Prince
Top of the Pops
TV • 1964
Self - Host
Duncanville
TV • 2020
Alice Cooper
Riverside
TV • 1982
Self
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
TV • 2021
Self (archive footage)
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
TV • 2012
Self
Slå på ring
TV • 2001
No Cover
TV • 2022
Self
Power Hour
TV • 2020
Self