Roger Corman
Gender: Male
Born: 5th April 1926 (currently 86 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Bucket of Blood, A Time for Killing, Apache Woman, Atlas, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Bloody Mama, Carnival Rock, Creature from the Haunted Sea, Day the World Ended, Deathsport, Five Guns West, Frankenstein Unbound, Gas-s-s-s, Gunslinger, House of Usher, I, Mobster, It Conquered the World, Jack Nicholson: Cult Classics, Last Woman on Earth, Machine-Gun Kelly, Naked Paradise, Not of This Earth, Psych-Out, RiffTrax: The Little Shop of Horrors, Rock All Night, Roger Corman Retrospective: Vol. 1, She Gods of Shark Reef, Ski Troop Attack, Sorority Girl, Swamp Women, Tales of Terror, Target: Harry, Teenage Cave Man, Teenage Doll, The Big Doll House, The Cry Baby Killer, The Girl in Lovers Lane, The Haunted Palace, The Intruder, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Masque of the Red Death, The Oklahoma Woman, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Premature Burial, The Raven, The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, The Secret Invasion, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The Terror, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Trip, The Undead, The Wasp Woman, The Wild Angels, The Young Racers, Tower of London, Von Richthofen and Brown, War of the Satellites, X
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film producer, director and actor. He has mostly worked on low-budget B movies. Some of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, and in 2009 he won an Honorary Academy Award for his body of work. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting 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 and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011, directed by Alex Stapleton. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.
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, William Shatner, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Talia Shire and Robert De Niro.
Corman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Anne (née High) and
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