Roger Corman

Born: 1926-04-05

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works that have an already-established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low-budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. In 1964, Corman—admired by members of the French New Wave and Cahiers du Cinéma—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 is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers". Corman 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, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13, The Manchurian Candidate, and Philadelphia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Corman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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The Independent

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Atlas

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Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror

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Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

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Ski Troop Attack

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The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters

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Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

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Released: 1997-10-12

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Hollywood Boulevard II

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Released: 1991-01-30

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The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman

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Released: 1999-02-01

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Out of the Blue and Into the Black

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Released: 1987-01-30

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Naked Paradise

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Charles Beaumont: The Short Life of Twilight Zone's Magic Man

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Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man

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Released: 1983-02-23

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Sodankylä Forever

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Released: 2010-08-05

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Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

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Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

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The Wicker Man Enigma

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Released: 2001-10-01

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Released: 1989-10-10

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Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres

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Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

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Released: 1978-04-06

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Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

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AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1

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Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

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Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

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Released: 2021-01-19

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Monster Madness: Mutants, Space Invaders, and Drive-Ins

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Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

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Battle of Blood Island

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The Dark Side of Hollywood

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Released: 1998-05-13

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Released: 2015-09-02

Feature Length sit down with Charles Band and Roger Corman.

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Released: 1964-01-02

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Released: 1990-04-11

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Released: 1994-12-18

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First aired: 1975-01-12

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First aired: 1990-10-04

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First aired: 1997-03-04

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First aired: 2019-11-29

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First aired: 2022-05-24

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E! True Hollywood Story

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First aired: 1996-08-21

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A History of Horror

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First aired: 2010-10-11

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The Last Drive-In Live: A Tribute to Roger Corman

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First aired: 2024-03-15

Live from Las Vegas, Joe Bob celebrates Roger Corman's first 70 years in Hollywood with guests...

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CULT-TASTIC: Tales From The Trenches With Roger And Julie Corman

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First aired: 2019-11-15

Shout! Factory TV presents Cult-tastic: Tales From The Trenches with Roger and Julie Corman....

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