Biography: life and films
Roger Corman is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, USA on 5th April 1926.His best films as a film director include House of Usher (1960), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Intruder (1962) and The Masque of the Red Death (1964), and whose best work as an actor include Day the World Ended (1955), Bernard L. Kowalski's Hot Car Girl (1958), Johanna Demetrakas's Some Nudity Required (1998), Wes Craven's Scream 3 (2000) and Joe Dante's comedy Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).
Roger Corman has so far directed 56 films, appeared in 24 films and scripted 8 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Jonathan Demme (2 films).
His most frequent genres include: drama (29 films), Horror (29), Thriller (18), comedy (9), Western (6), Fantasy (6), Documentary (5), romance (4), War (4), crime-thriller (3), comedy-thriller (3), Biography (3), history (2) and comedy-drama (2).
Our average rating for Roger Corman over all films is: 2.3
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
The Gunfighter (1950) [w]
Highway Dragnet (1954) [w]
Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954) [a]
Apache Woman (1955) [d]
Day the World Ended (1955) [a,d]
Five Guns West (1955) [d]
Swamp Women (1955) [d]
The Beast with a Million Eyes (1955) [d]
The Fast and the Furious (1955) [a,w]
Gunslinger (1956) [d]
It Conquered the World (1956) [d]
The Oklahoma Woman (1956) [d]
Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) [d]
Carnival Rock (1957) [d]
Naked Paradise (1957) [a,d]
Not of This Earth (1957) [d]
Rock All Night (1957) [d]
Sorority Girl (1957) [d]
Teenage Doll (1957) [d]
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957) [d]
The Undead (1957) [d]
Hot Car Girl (1958) [a]
I Mobster (1958) [d]
Machine-Gun Kelly (1958) [d]
She Gods of Shark Reef (1958) [d]
Teenage Cave Man (1958) [d]
The Cry Baby Killer (1958) [a]
War of the Satellites (1958) [a,d]
A Bucket of Blood (1959) [d]
The Wasp Woman (1959) [a,d]
Battle of Blood Island (1960) [a]
Last Woman on Earth (1960) [d]
Ski Troop Attack (1960) [a,d]
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) [d,w]
Atlas (1961) [a,d]
Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) [d]
Pit and the Pendulum (1961) [d]
Premature Burial (1962) [d]
Tales of Terror (1962) [d]
The Intruder (1962) [d]
Tower of London (1962) [d]
The Haunted Palace (1963) [d]
The Raven (1963) [d]
The Terror (1963) [d,w]
The Young Racers (1963) [d]
X (1963) [d]
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) [d]
The Secret Invasion (1964) [d]
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) [d]
Blood Bath (1966) [a]
The Wild Angels (1966) [d]
A Time for Killing (1967) [d]
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) [d]
The Trip (1967) [d]
The Wild Racers (1968) [d]
De Sade (1969) [d]
Target: Harry (1969) [d]
Bloody Mama (1970) [d]
Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It. (1971) [d]
Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) [d]
Deathsport (1978) [d]
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel (1978) [a]
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980) [d]
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype (1980) [w]
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) [w]
Lords of the Deep (1989) [a]
Frankenstein Unbound (1990) [d,w]
A Century of Cinema (1994) [a]
Some Nudity Required (1998) [a]
The Dark Side of Hollywood (1998) [a]
Scream 3 (2000) [a]
The Independent (2000) [a]
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) [a]
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) [a]
The Sci-Fi Boys (2006) [a]
Rachel Getting Married (2008) [a]
Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader (2012) [a]
The best of American film noir
The silent era of French cinema
The very best of German cinema
