Roger Corman

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
Apr 05, 1926 (99 years old)

Roger Corman

Known For

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
8h 25m
Movie 2025

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

THE AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE VAULT is a 2-disc, 500-minute odyssey that collects eight feature-length VHS mixtapes from the crackpots at AGFA—including two that have only ever been available theatrically.

Sharksploitation
1h 46m
Movie 2024

Sharksploitation

The ultimate deep dive into the world of shark cinema: filmmakers, critics, scholars and conservationists explore the weird, wild cinematic legacy of sharks on film and audiences' undying fascination with these misunderstood creatures.

Spector
TV Show 2022

Spector

A four-part documentary series about enigmatic, legendary music producer Phil Spector and what happened on the fateful night of February 3, 2003 when actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead in his mansion.

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
2h 44m
Movie 2022

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!

A remarkable new epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones of 1982 including notable motion pictures, TV, music and video games of that seminal year.

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
1h 43m
Movie 2021

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus
1h 43m
Movie 2021

A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus

With free eyes, an open heart, good friends and a handful of luck, Gurcius Gewdner revisits some of his adventures of the past five years, survives the relentless Russian winter and asks the following question: How far can an underground Brazilian film go?

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
1h 58m
Movie 2021

Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!

A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
0h 52m
Movie 2021

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

Documentary on the life of legendary filmmaker Roger Corman, often referred to as the "Pope of Pop Cinema"

Tales of the Uncanny
1h 44m
Movie 2020

Tales of the Uncanny

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

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 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Corman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting

2025
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
2024
Sharksploitation
2023
Lost Explorer
2022
Spector
2022
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
2021
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
2021
A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus
2021
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
2021
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
2020
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
2020
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
2020
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
2019
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
2019
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
2019
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2018
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
2017
Greetings from Tromaville!
2017
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
2017
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
2015
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
2014
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
2014
It Came From Connemara!
2014
Behind the Swinging Blade
2013
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
2013
Extraordinary Tales
2011
Corman's World
2011
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
2011
From Manila with Love
2010
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
2010
A History of Horror
2010
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
2010
Sodankylä Forever
2010
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
2009
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
2008
Hollywood Gangster
1995
Apollo 13
1994
Weird Night
1994
Runaway Daughters
1994
A Century of Cinema
1993
Philadelphia
1991
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
1991
The Silence of the Lambs
1990
Martin Scorsese Directs
1990
Horror Cafe
1987
Out of the Blue and Into the Black

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