About Roger Corman
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.
Movie Credits
Roger Corman has appeared in 134 movies.
TV Credits
Roger Corman has appeared in 18 shows.
Production Credits
Production
Credited for Executive Producer in 242 shows - The Beast with a Million Eyes, Night of the Blood Beast, Hot Car Girl, The Brain Eaters, Beast from Haunted Cave, Attack of the Giant Leeches, Battle of Blood Island, The Tomb of Ligeia, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Queen of Blood, Blood Bath, The Shooting, The Wild Racers, Targets, Pit Stop, Target: Harry, The Dunwich Horror, Angels Die Hard, The Student Nurses, The Beast of the Yellow Night, The Big Doll House, Angels Hard as They Come, Private Duty Nurses, The Velvet Vampire, Sweet Kill, The Hot Box, Night Call Nurses, The Twilight People, The Big Bird Cage, The Dirt Gang, The Woman Hunt, The Unholy Rollers, Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman, Fly Me, The Arena, Candy Stripe Nurses, TNT Jackson, Death Race 2000, Tidal Wave, Cover Girl Models, Darktown Strutters, Nashville Girl, Jackson County Jail, Hollywood Boulevard, The Great Texas Dynamite Chase, Moving Violation, Grand Theft Auto, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, The Evil, Piranha, The Bees, Outside Chance, Island of the Fishmen, Rock 'n' Roll High School, The Lady in Red, Humanoids from the Deep, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Georgia Peaches, Sorceress, The Slumber Party Massacre, Deathstalker, Oddballs, The Warrior and the Sorceress, School Spirit, Barbarian Queen, House, Last Resort, Shadow Play, Sorority House Massacre, Chopping Mall, The Devastator, Hour of the Assassin, Sweet Revenge, Stripped to Kill, Summer Camp Nightmare, Deathstalker II: Duel of the Titans, Slumber Party Massacre II, Deathstalker III: The Warriors from Hell, Andy Colby’s Incredibly Awesome Adventure, The New Gladiators, Saigon Commandos, The Drifter, Apprentice to Murder, Not of This Earth, Daddy's Boys, Watchers, Crime Zone, Stripped to Kill 2: Live Girls, Nowhere to Run, Under the Boardwalk, Dance of the Damned, Blackbelt II: Fatal Force, Think Big, Transylvania Twist, Body Chemistry, Ultra Warrior, A Cry in the Wild, Silk 2, Play Murder for Me, Corporate Affairs, The Terror Within II, Hollywood Boulevard II, Deathstalker IV: Match of Titans, To Die Standing, Dead Space, Curse of the Crystal Eye, Future Kick, Bloodfist III: Forced to Fight, In the Heat of Passion, Ultraviolet, The Berlin Conspiracy, Dance with Death, Munchie, Body Waves, Blackbelt, Final Judgement, Quake, Body Chemistry II: The Voice of a Stranger, Bloodfist IV: Die Trying, The Turn-On, To Sleep with a Vampire, Angelfist, Carnosaur, The Skateboard Kid, Live by the Fist, Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon, Fire on the Amazon, Dragon Fire, Little Miss Millions, Caged Heat II: Stripped of Freedom, Stranglehold, In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful, Bloodfist V: Human Target, Caroline at Midnight, One Man Army, Point of Seduction: Body Chemistry III, Dinosaur Island, Demon Keeper, Saturday Night Special, The Fantastic Four, The Spy Within, Reflections on a Crime, Cheyenne Warrior, Munchie Strikes Back, Revenge of the Red Baron, New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020, Angel of Destruction, Watchers III, The Crazysitter, Suspect Device, Caged Heat 3000, Where Evil Lies, Bloodfist VI: Ground Zero, Attack of the 60 Foot Centerfold, Dillinger and Capone, The Alien Within, Sawbones, Virtual Seduction, Burial of the Rats, Twisted Love, Not Like Us, Black Scorpion, The Wasp Woman, Not of This Earth, A Bucket of Blood, Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure, Piranha, Bloodfist 7: Manhunt, Terminal Virus, One Night Stand, Captain Nuke and the Bomber Boys, Cyberzone, Baby Face Nelson, Subliminal Seduction, Black Rose of Harlem, Dance with Me, When the Bullet Hits the Bone, House of the Damned, Inhumanoid, Alien Avengers, The Unspeakable, Last Exit to Earth, Humanoids from the Deep, Death Game, Vampirella, Marquis de Sade, Bloodfist VIII: Trained to Kill, Macon County Jail, Shadow Dancer, Don't Sleep Alone, The Sea Wolf, Eruption, Rumble in the Streets, Overdrive, Black Scorpion II: Aftershock, Under Oath, My Brother's War, Alien Avengers II, The Haunted Sea, Spacejacked, Future Fear, Operation Cobra, Lola's Game, Criminal Affairs, Termination Man, The Capitol Conspiracy, Desert Thunder, Watchers Reborn, The Shepherd, Black Thunder, Club Vampire, Cybermaster: Shepherd II, The Protector, Knocking on Death's Door, The Phantom Eye, The Doorway, Hard as Nails, Wolfhound, Sting of the Black Scorpion, Shakedown, Slaughter Studios, Operation Balikatan, Barbarian, Firefight, Rage and Discipline, Dinocroc, Cry of the Winged Serpent, Asphalt Wars, Bloodfist 2050, Scorpius Gigantus, Supergator, Searchers 2.0, Dinocroc vs. Supergator, Death Race 2, Camel Spiders, Piranhaconda, Palace of the Damned, Death Race: Inferno, Virtually Heroes, Water Wars, DinoGator and Occupy Cannes!.
Credited for Producer in 218 shows - Monster from the Ocean Floor, The Fast and the Furious, Five Guns West, Apache Woman, Day the World Ended, Gunslinger, The Oklahoma Woman, It Conquered the World, Naked Paradise, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Not of This Earth, The Undead, Rock All Night, Carnival Rock, Teenage Doll, Sorority Girl, The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, Machine-Gun Kelly, Stakeout on Dope Street, War of the Satellites, Teenage Cave Man, Cry Baby Killer, I, Mobster, Battle Beyond the Sun, T-Bird Gang, High School Big Shot, A Bucket of Blood, The Wasp Woman, Ski Troop Attack, The Little Shop of Horrors, House of Usher, Last Woman on Earth, Atlas, Creature from the Haunted Sea, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Intruder, Tales of Terror, The Magic Voyage of Sinbad, The Young Racers, The Raven, The Terror, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Haunted Palace, Dementia 13, The Sword and the Dragon, The Masque of the Red Death, The Day the Earth Froze, The Wild Angels, Ride in the Whirlwind, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters, Devil's Angels, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Trip, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, Bloody Mama, Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It., Scream of the Demon Lover, Women in Cages, Lady Frankenstein, Night of the Cobra Woman, The Crucified Girls of San Ramon, The Final Comedown, Boxcar Bertha, The Cremators, The Young Nurses, Stacey, I Escaped from Devil's Island, Caged Heat, Down and Dirty Duck, Cockfighter, Tender Loving Care, Big Bad Mama, Capone, Darktown Strutters, Fighting Mad, Eat My Dust, Cannonball, God Told Me To, Black Oak Conspiracy, Thunder and Lightning, Ilsa, the Tigress of Siberia, Deathsport, Galaxy Express 999, Avalanche, Leopard in the Snow, Saint Jack, Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider, Up from the Depths, The Prize Fighter, My American Uncle, Shogun Assassin, Richard's Things, The Territory, Smokey Bites the Dust, Galaxy of Terror, Forbidden World, Android, Jimmy the Kid, Murder by Phone, Love Letters, Space Raiders, Mountaintop Motel Massacre, White Star, Suburbia, Cocaine Wars, Streetwalkin', Wizards of the Lost Kingdom, Naked Vengeance, Eye of the Eagle, Hour of the Assassin, Munchies, Big Bad Mama II, The Sisterhood, The Lawless Land, Emmanuelle 6, Warlords from Hell, Grotesque, Saturday the 14th Strikes Back, Purple People Eater, Heroes Stand Alone, Back to Back, The Terror Within, Two to Tango, Wizards of the Lost Kingdom II, Time Trackers, Food of the Gods II, Warlock, Lords of the Deep, Nam Angels, Bloodfist, Think Big, Masque of the Red Death, Ministry of Vengeance, Last Stand at Lang Mei, Overexposed, Streets, The Haunting of Morella, Barbarian Queen II: The Empress Strikes Back, Flesh Gordon Meets the Cosmic Cheerleaders, Schweitzer, Watchers II, Full Fathom Five, Slumber Party Massacre III, The Rain Killer, Sorority House Massacre II, Bloodfist II, Frankenstein Unbound, Dune Warriors, The Unborn, Kiss Me a Killer, Immortal Sins, Beyond the Call of Duty, Crisis in the Kremlin, Final Embrace, Quake, Stepmonster, Kill Zone, Dracula Rising, White Wolves - A Cry in the Wild II, Caroline at Midnight, The Unborn II, Terminal Voyage, No Dessert, Dad, 'Til You Mow the Lawn, The Liars' Club, Hellfire, Carnosaur 2, Stripteaser, Not Like Us, Bio-Tech Warrior, Starquest II, Ladykiller, Alien Terminator, Marquis de Sade, Carnosaur 3: Primal Species, Star Portal, Falling Fire, Time Under Fire, Running Woman, A Very Unlucky Leprechaun, Enemy Action, Born Bad, Stray Bullet, The Haunting of Hell House, Velocity, The White Pony, The Suicide Club, Dangerous Curves, Moving Target, Aladdin and the Adventure of All Time, Nightfall, Up Against Amanda, Black Scorpion, Avalanche Alley, The Arena, Raptor, A Girl, Three Guys, and a Gun, Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song, Escape from Afghanistan, Saurian, The Hunt for Eagle One, The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point, Death Race, Cyclops, Splatter, Splatter, When Life Gives You Lemons, Dinoshark, Sharktopus, Stealing Las Vegas, Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader, Palace of the Damned, Operation Rogue, Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda, Fist of the Dragon, Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf, Death Race 2050 and Abduction.
Credited for Associate Producer in 1 show - Amazons.
Credited for Production Assistant in 2 shows - The Silence of the Hams and All My Friends Are Back In Brisbane.
Directing
Credited for Director in 58 shows - Five Guns West, The Beast with a Million Eyes, The Beast with a Million Eyes, Apache Woman, Day the World Ended, Swamp Women, Gunslinger, The Oklahoma Woman, It Conquered the World, Naked Paradise, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Not of This Earth, The Undead, Rock All Night, Carnival Rock, Teenage Doll, Sorority Girl, The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, Machine-Gun Kelly, War of the Satellites, Teenage Cave Man, She Gods of Shark Reef, I, Mobster, A Bucket of Blood, The Wasp Woman, Ski Troop Attack, The Little Shop of Horrors, House of Usher, Last Woman on Earth, Atlas, Creature from the Haunted Sea, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Intruder, Tales of Terror, Tower of London, The Young Racers, The Raven, The Terror, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Haunted Palace, The Masque of the Red Death, The Secret Invasion, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, A Time for Killing, The Trip, The Wild Racers, The Wild Racers, Target: Harry, De Sade, Bloody Mama, Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It., Von Richthofen and Brown, Deathsport, Battle Beyond the Stars and Frankenstein Unbound.
Writing
Credited for Story in 2 shows - Highway Dragnet and The Fast and the Furious.
Credited for Screenplay in 1 show - Frankenstein Unbound.
Credited for Writer in 2 shows - The Little Shop of Horrors and Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype.
Credited for Original Film Writer in 1 show - Little Shop of Horrors.
Credited for Script Consultant in 1 show - The Gunfighter.
Credited for Story Editor in 1 show - The Gunfighter.
Crew
Credited for Stunt Driver in 1 show - The Fast and the Furious.
Credited for Thanks in 2 shows - Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! and Embryo.
Credited for Presenter in 1 show - Eat My Dust.
Art
Credited for Art Direction in 1 show - Water Wars.
Creator
Credited for Creator in 1 show - Black Scorpion.