Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget films. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films derived from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and he has won an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work. Corman is also an occasional actor, taking minor roles in such films as The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 13 and Philadelphia. A documentary about Roger Corman's life and career entitled Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel premiered at Sundance in 2011. Corman has been a mentor to young film directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Peter Bogdanovich, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Curtis Hanson, John Sayles, and many others. He has also helped launch the careers of actors including Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Corman, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Apr 5, 1926 In Detroit, Michigan, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 82
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Monster from the Ocean Floor 1954-05-21
- Latest Project:
- Movie A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus 2021-04-09
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | A Ship of Madness: Deeper and Higher with Pazucus | Self | 2021-04-09 |
| Movie | Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi | Self | 2020-05-19 |
| Movie | Tales of the Uncanny | Self | 2020-10-31 |
| Movie | Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive | 2017-04-29 | |
| Movie | It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story | Himself | 2015-12-01 |
| Movie | Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four | Himself | 2015-07-10 |
| Movie | That Guy Dick Miller | Self | 2014-03-07 |
| Movie | Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie | 2013-06-07 | |
| Movie | Extraordinary Tales | Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death') | 2013-02-28 |
| Movie | La última película de Jess Franco | Self | 2013-10-11 |
| Movie | Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader | Dean Hinkle | 2012-08-25 |
| Movie | Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective | Self | 2011-04-14 |
| Movie | From Manila with Love | Himself | 2011-06-21 |
| Movie | Corman's World | Self - Filmmaker | 2011-12-16 |
| Movie | Sharktopus | Beach Bum | 2010-09-25 |
| Movie | With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story | Self | 2010-07-24 |
| Movie | Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres | Himself (archive footage) | 2010-10-05 |
| Movie | Tales from the Lumber Yard: The Making of Galaxy of Terror | Self | 2010-12-26 |
| Movie | Machete Maidens Unleashed! | Self | 2010-10-15 |
| Series | A History of Horror | 2010-10-11 | |
| Movie | Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman | Himself | 2009-02-25 |
| Movie | Hollywood Gangster | Self | 2008-12-27 |
| Movie | Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound | Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994) | 2008-06-10 |
| Movie | Rachel Getting Married | Wedding Guest | 2008-09-03 |
| Movie | Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman | Self | 2007-05-16 |
| Movie | Searchers 2.0 | Producer (Flashback) | 2007-08-31 |
| Movie | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project | Self | 2007-10-13 |
| Movie | Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story | Self | 2007-11-08 |
| Movie | Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows | Self | 2007-09-02 |
| Movie | The Sci-Fi Boys | Self | 2006-04-27 |
| Movie | The Perfect Scary Movie | Self | 2005-10-29 |
| Movie | Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood | 2005-12-02 | |
| Movie | Mario Bava: Operazione paura | Self | 2004-04-30 |
| Movie | The Manchurian Candidate | Mr. Secretary | 2004-07-30 |
| Movie | Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen | Self | 2004-09-04 |
| Movie | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self | 2003-03-09 |
| Movie | A Decade Under the Influence | Self | 2003-04-25 |
| Movie | Looney Tunes: Back in Action | Hollywood Director | 2003-11-14 |
| Movie | All the Love You Cannes! | Self | 2002-05-16 |
| Movie | It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures | Self | 2001-05-01 |
| Movie | Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies | Himself | 2001-04-02 |
| Movie | Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties | Self | 2001-09-04 |
| Movie | Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' | Self | 2001-08-21 |
| Movie | Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man | Himself | 2001-12-29 |
| Movie | The Independent | Roger Corman | 2000-11-10 |
| Movie | Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs | Self | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | Some Nudity Required | Himself | 1998-10-16 |
| Series | The Practice | Unknown | 1997-03-04 |
| Movie | Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain | Self | 1997-10-12 |
| Movie | 100 Years of Horror: Witchcraft and Demons | Himself | 1996-01-01 |
| Series | E! True Hollywood Story | Unknown | 1996-08-21 |
| Movie | Apollo 13 | Congressman | 1995-06-30 |
| Movie | Conversations with Vincent | Himself | 1994-02-24 |
| Movie | A Century of Cinema | Self | 1994-01-01 |
| Movie | Runaway Daughters | Mr. Randolph | 1994-08-12 |
| Movie | Body Bags | Dr. Bregman | 1993-08-08 |
| Movie | Philadelphia | Mr. Laird | 1993-12-22 |
| Movie | Hollywood Boulevard II | Roger Corman | 1991-01-30 |
| Movie | The Horror Hall of Fame II | Himself | 1991-10-05 |
| Movie | The Silence of the Lambs | FBI Director Hayden Burke | 1991-02-14 |
| Movie | Martin Scorsese Directs | Self | 1990-06-16 |
| Movie | The Horror Hall of Fame | Himself | 1990-09-30 |
| Movie | Lords of the Deep | Corporate executive (uncredited) | 1989-06-02 |
| Movie | First Works | Self | 1989-10-10 |
| Movie | Swing Shift | Mr. MacBride | 1984-04-13 |
| Movie | The Horror of It All | Self | 1983-02-23 |
| Movie | The State of Things | The Lawyer | 1982-03-22 |
| Movie | The Howling | Man in Phone Booth (uncredited) | 1981-01-21 |
| Movie | Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel | Self | 1978-04-06 |
| Movie | Cannonball | District Attorney | 1976-07-06 |
| Movie | The Godfather Part II | Senator #2 | 1974-12-20 |
| Movie | Target: Harry | Man on Phone | 1969-05-23 |
| Movie | Blood Bath | Antonio Sordi (in flashback) | 1966-03-02 |
| Movie | Atlas | Greek Soldier (uncredited) | 1961-05-01 |
| Movie | Ski Troop Attack | German Officer (uncredited) | 1960-04-08 |
| Movie | The Wasp Woman | Hospital Doctor | 1959-10-30 |
| Movie | War of the Satellites | Ground Control (uncredited) | 1958-05-18 |
| Movie | The Cry Baby Killer | Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited) | 1958-08-15 |
| Movie | Naked Paradise | Office Worker (uncredited) | 1957-01-01 |
| Movie | Day the World Ended | Nelson - Louise's Fiancée in Framed Photograph (uncredited) | 1955-12-01 |
| Movie | Monster from the Ocean Floor | Tommy | 1954-05-21 |
| Movie | The Fast and the Furious | Roadblock State Trooper | 1954-11-01 |