Roger Corman - biography

“Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform.  They fit this century - they combine Art and business!”

“One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film.  That’s when you end up with very bad work.”

“Other writers, producers, and directors of low-budget films would often put down the film they were making, saying it was just something to make money with.  I never felt that.  If I took the assignment, I’d give it my best shot.”

“When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release.  Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release.”

“As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.”

“Jim Cameron is proof that if you are good, you’ll get promoted.”

Roger Corman directed the following films:
Swamp Women (1955)
Five Guns West (1955)
The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955)
Apache Woman (1955)
Day the World Ended (1955)
The Oklahoma Woman (1956)
Gunslinger (1956)
It Conquered the World (1956)
Naked Paradise (1957)
Carnival Rock (1957)
Not of This Earth (1957)
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
The Undead (1957)
Rock All Night (1957)
Teenage Doll (1957)
Sorority Girl (1957)
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)
I Mobster (1958)
War of the Satellites (1958)
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958)
Teenage Cave Man (1958)
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
The Wasp Woman (1959)
Ski Troop Attack (1960)
House of Usher (1960)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Last Woman on Earth (1960)
Atlas (1961)
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Premature Burial (1962)
The Intruder (1962)
Tales of Terror (1962)
Tower of London (1962)
The Young Racers (1963)
The Raven (1963)
The Terror (1963)
The Haunted Palace (1963)
X (1963)
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
The Secret Invasion (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
The Wild Angels (1966)
The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967)
A Time for Killing (1967)
The Trip (1967)
The Wild Racers (1968)
Target: Harry (1969)
De Sade (1969)
Bloody Mama (1970)
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1971)
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Deathsport (1978)
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)


Roger Corman contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
The Fast and the Furious (1955)
Ski Troop Attack (1960)
The Terror (1963)
The Secret Invasion (1964)
The Trip (1967)
Target: Harry (1969)
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971)
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980)
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)


Roger Corman has appeared in the following films:
The Fast and the Furious (1955)
Hot Car Girl (1958)
The Independent (2000)
Scream 3 (2000)
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
The Sci-Fi Boys (2006)