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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.

Films Featuring Roger Corman

The Godfather Part II

19748.6

The Silence of the Lambs

19918.3

Apollo 13

19957.5

Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive

20177.7

Scream 3

20006.0

The Fast and the Furious

19545.4

The State of Things

19826.4

Cannonball

19765.6

The Howling

19816.6

In Hock & Staying There

Body Bags

19936.2

The Wasp Woman

19594.5

Popatopolis

20096.4

Monster from the Ocean Floor

19543.8

Naked Paradise

19574.4

Atlas

19613.4

War of the Satellites

19585.2

The Horror of It All

19838.3

Hollywood Gangster

Hollywood Gangster

2008

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

20096.5

Sharktopus

20104.1

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

20037.1

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

20106.6

The Independent

20005.5

Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies

20016.9

Corman's World

20117.0

Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp

20206.8

The Sci-Fi Boys

20067.0

With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story

20106.8

Roger Corman, the Pope of Pop Cinema

20217.0

Sharksploitation

20246.7

Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows

20076.9

Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman

Tromatized: Meet Lloyd Kaufman

20095.0

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie

20137.7

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

19983.0

Corman's Comedy of Poe

Corman's Comedy of Poe

2003

Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four

20156.7

La última película de Jess Franco

20136.0

Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood

20057.4

Runaway Daughters

19946.0

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

19787.7

Behind the Swinging Blade

2014

I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni

It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures

20017.4

That Guy Dick Miller

20147.0

Bloody And Groovy Baby! A Tribute to Sam Raimi's Evil Dead 2

20186.0

Philadelphia

19937.7

Direct Your Own Damn Movie!

20095.0

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

Crazy About the Movies: Dennis Hopper

1991

Famous Monster: Forrest J Ackerman

20079.0

Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off-Screen

20046.5

Mary Woronov: Cult Queen

Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project

20076.8

Battle of Blood Island

19605.4

Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute

20075.0

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

20108.3

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

20146.0

Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound

20085.9

Extraordinary Tales

20156.5

Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties

20017.0

Out of the Blue and Into the Black

1987

Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur

2017

Kings of Cult

20157.7

Target: Harry

19696.1

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

20214.7

Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective

20117.7

Lost Explorer

2023

Looney Tunes: Back in Action

20036.4

Lords of the Deep

19893.3

Some Nudity Required

19985.0

Hollywood Boulevard II

19894.4

All the Love You Cannes!

20026.5

Remembering 'The Intruder'

Remembering 'The Intruder'

20012.0

Vincent Price: The Versatile Villain

19976.4

Rachel Getting Married

20086.3

It Was a Colossal Teenage Movie Machine: The AIP Story

201510.0

From Manila with Love

2011

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

20046.5

Martin Scorsese Directs

19909.0

Horror Cafe

19908.5

The Fanex Files, Volume 2: Samuel Z. Arkoff

2008

First Works

19897.0

Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs'

20017.3

The Dark Side of Hollywood

19989.0

Greetings from Tromaville!

2017

It Came From Connemara!

20144.5

The Phantom Eye

19998.0

Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story

20077.8

Memory: The Origins of Alien

20196.4

The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters

19947.5

The Second Civil War

19976.1

Cry Baby Killer

19585.8

The Manchurian Candidate

20046.5

Dr. Jack & Mr. Nicholson

20195.9

Burnt Offering: The Cult of The Wicker Man

20017.8

A Century of Cinema

19948.3

Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader

20125.3

Corman's Eyedrops Got Me Too Crazy

202010.0

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1

20208.0

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #3: Sequelitis

20206.5

Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi

20205.7

Searchers 2.0

20076.2

The Wicker Man Enigma

20016.2

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

20102.0

The True Story of Hannibal

The True Story of Hannibal

20057.0

Swing Shift

19845.6

The Perfect Scary Movie

20057.7

Tales of the Uncanny

20207.0

SEGAL

2025

Z Dead End

Day the World Ended

19555.0

Dinoshark

20104.2

Sleepless Nights: Revisiting the Slumber Party Massacres

20103.7

Ski Troop Attack

19604.8

Ticket to Hollywood

Ticket to Hollywood

1984

Horror!!!

19641.0

Produce Your Own Damn Movie!

2011

Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster

20216.3

A Decade Under the Influence

20037.9

Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2

Chiller Theatre Fiend Club Show: Volume 2

1996

Ivan, the TerrirBle

20201.0

Tidal Wave

1975

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

20028.0

The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault

2020

The Devil Ant

19998.0

Hot Car Girl

19586.7

The Young Racers

19635.3

Blood Bath

19665.5

Il cinema secondo Corman

2025

Wasp Woman: Murder of a B-movie Queen

20258.0

Olivera & Corman: Hollywood en Argentina

Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master

20248.1

The Horror Hall of Fame II

The Horror Hall of Fame II

19912.0