Roger Corman
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 (151 Appearances)
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
In Hock & Staying There
Mary Woronov: Cult Queen
Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina
Z Dead End
Il cinema secondo Corman
SEGAL
Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen
Sharksploitation
The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Lost Explorer
Spector
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema
Tales of the Uncanny
Ivan, the TerrirBle
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis
Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy
The Movies That Made Us
CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman
Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson
The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs
Memory: The Origins of Alien
Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2
Greetings from Tromaville!
Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story
Kings of Cult
Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four
Extraordinary Tales
Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins
It Came From Connemara!
Behind the Swinging Blade
That Guy Dick Miller
La última película de Jess Franco
Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie
Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
Corman's World
Produce Your Own Damn Movie!
From Manila with Love
Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective
Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror
Conan
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
A History of Horror
Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres
Sharktopus
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
Sodankylä Forever
Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man
Dinoshark
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
Popatopolis
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman
Hollywood Gangster
The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff
Rachel Getting Married
Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project
Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows
Searchers 2.0
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman
The Sci-Fi Boys
Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood
The Perfect Scary Movie
The True Story of Hannibal
Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen
The Manchurian Candidate
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
Looney Tunes: Back in Action
Corman's Comedy of Poe
A Decade Under the Influence
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
All the Love You Cannes!
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man Enigma
Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies
Remembering 'The Intruder'
The Independent
Scream 3
The Phantom Eye
The Devil Ant
Some Nudity Required
The Dark Side of Hollywood
Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs
The Second Civil War
Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain
The Practice
100 Years of Horror
E! True Hollywood Story
Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2
Apollo 13
Runaway Daughters
Rebel Highway
The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters
A Century of Cinema
Philadelphia
Body Bags
The Horror Hall of Fame II
Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper
The Silence of the Lambs
Beverly Hills, 90210
Martin Scorsese Directs
Horror Cafe
First Works
Lords of the Deep
Hollywood Boulevard II
Biography
Out of the Blue and Into the Black
Ticket to Hollywood
Swing Shift
The Horror of It All
The State of Things
The Howling
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Cannonball
Tidal Wave
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
The Godfather Part II
Target: Harry
Blood Bath
Horror!!!
The Young Racers
Atlas
Battle of Blood Island
Ski Troop Attack
The Wasp Woman
Hot Car Girl
Cry Baby Killer
War of the Satellites
Naked Paradise
Day the World Ended
The Fast and the Furious
Monster from the Ocean Floor