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.
Recent movies
| # | Name | Character | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tales of the Uncanny (2020) | Self | 9 |
| 2 | Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp (2020) | Self | 7 |
| 3 | Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi (2020) | Self | 7 |
| 4 | Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019) | Self | 5.3 |
| 5 | Greetings from Tromaville! (2017) | Self | 7 |
| 6 | Extraordinary Tales (2015) | Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death') | 6 |
| 7 | Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman's The Fantastic Four (2015) | Himself | 6.5 |
| 8 | Kings of Cult (2015) | self | - |
| 9 | That Guy Dick Miller (2014) | Self | 9 |
| 10 | Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader (2012) | Dean Hinkle | - |
| 11 | Corman's World (2011) | Self - Filmmaker | - |
| 12 | Still Screaming: The Ultimate Scary Movie Retrospective (2011) | Self | - |
| 13 | With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story (2010) | Self | 7 |
| 14 | Dinoshark (2010) | Dr. Frank Reeves | 4.5 |
| 15 | Sharktopus (2010) | Beach Bum | 4.8 |
| 16 | Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) | Self | - |
| 17 | Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009) | Self | 7 |
| 18 | Rachel Getting Married (2008) Oscars 2009 | Wedding Guest | 6.4 |
| 19 | Starz Inside: Comic Books Unbound (2008) | Self - Producer, The Fantastic Four (1994) | 6 |
| 20 | Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007) | Self | - |
| 21 | Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007) | Self | 7 |
| 22 | Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood (2005) | - | - |
| 23 | The Perfect Scary Movie (2005) | Self | - |
| 24 | The Manchurian Candidate (2004) | Mr. Secretary | 6.6 |
| 25 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) | Self | - |
| 26 | Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) | Hollywood Director | 5.8 |
| 27 | Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies (2001) | Himself | 7 |
| 28 | Inside the Labyrinth: The Making of 'The Silence of the Lambs' (2001) | Self | - |
| 29 | It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures (2001) | Self | - |
| 30 | Scream 3 (2000) | Studio Executive | 5.9 |
| 31 | The Independent (2000) | Roger Corman | - |
| 32 | The Phantom Eye (1999) | Dr. Gorman | - |
| 33 | Some Nudity Required (1998) | Himself | - |
| 34 | The Dark Side of Hollywood (1998) | - | - |
| 35 | The Second Civil War (1997) | Sandy Collins | 5 |
| 36 | Apollo 13 (1995) | Congressman | 7.7 |
| 37 | The Man Who Drew Bug-Eyed Monsters (1994) | Self | - |
| 38 | Runaway Daughters (1994) | Mr. Randolph | - |
| 39 | Body Bags (1993) | Dr. Bregman | 6.6 |
| 40 | Philadelphia (1993) | Mr. Laird | 7.7 |
| 41 | The Silence of the Lambs (1991) | FBI Director Hayden Burke | 8.4 |
| 42 | Frankenstein Unbound (1990) | Director / Writer | 5.8 |
| 43 | Little Shop of Horrors (1986) | Director / Writer | 7.4 |
| 44 | Swing Shift (1984) | Mr. MacBride | 2 |
| 45 | The Horror of It All (1983) | Self | - |
| 46 | The State of Things (1982) | The Lawyer | 8 |
| 47 | The Howling (1981) | Man in Phone Booth (uncredited) | 6.6 |
| 48 | Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) | Director / Writer | 5.3 |
| 49 | Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980) | Director / Writer | - |
| 50 | Cannonball (1976) | District Attorney | - |
| 51 | The Godfather Part II (1974) | Senator #2 | 8.5 |
| 52 | Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1970) | Director / Writer | 7 |
| 53 | Bloody Mama (1970) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 54 | The Trip (1967) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 55 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 56 | A Time for Killing (1967) | Director / Writer | - |
| 57 | The Wild Angels (1966) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 58 | The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) | Director / Writer | 5.7 |
| 59 | The Masque of the Red Death (1964) | Director / Writer | 6.6 |
| 60 | The Haunted Palace (1963) | Director / Writer | 6.5 |
| 61 | The Raven (1963) | Director / Writer | 5.3 |
| 62 | The Terror (1963) | Director / Writer | 6.5 |
| 63 | X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) | Director / Writer | 6.8 |
| 64 | The Intruder (1962) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 65 | Tales of Terror (1962) | Director / Writer | 6.4 |
| 66 | Tower of London (1962) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 67 | The Premature Burial (1962) | Director / Writer | 7 |
| 68 | Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) | Director / Writer | - |
| 69 | The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) | Director / Writer | 8 |
| 70 | The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) | Director / Writer | 6.8 |
| 71 | Last Woman on Earth (1960) | Director / Writer | - |
| 72 | House of Usher (1960) | Director / Writer | 6.4 |
| 73 | A Bucket of Blood (1959) | Director / Writer | 1 |
| 74 | The Wasp Woman (1959) | Director / Writer | - |
| 75 | Teenage Cave Man (1958) | Director / Writer | 1 |
| 76 | Cry Baby Killer (1958) | Joe - TV Truck Man (uncredited) | - |
| 77 | Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) | Director / Writer | - |
| 78 | Not of This Earth (1957) | Director / Writer | 5 |
| 79 | The Undead (1957) | Director / Writer | 2 |
| 80 | The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957) | Director / Writer | 8 |
| 81 | Rock All Night (1957) | Director / Writer | 7 |
| 82 | It Conquered the World (1956) | Director / Writer | 4.5 |
| 83 | Swamp Women (1956) | Director / Writer | 8 |
| 84 | Gunslinger (1956) | Director / Writer | 1 |
| 85 | The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955) | Director / Writer | - |
| 86 | Day the World Ended (1955) | Director / Writer | 4 |
| 87 | Highway Dragnet (1954) | Director / Writer | 6 |
| 88 | The Fast and the Furious (1954) | Director / Writer | 7 |
| 89 | The Gunfighter (1950) | Director / Writer | - |
