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Roger Corman
Roger William Corman was an American film director and producer. Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", “King of the Beatnik Movies”, "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.
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entertainment · American film director and producer (1926–2024) · film director · film producer · television actor · film actor · producer · director · actor · screenwriter · writer · also Roger Corman, Roger William Corman, Corman
Born 5 April 1926 · Died 9 May 2024 · Q318292
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2026· 2 entries
“Our picture was certainly not as good or big as a Warner Brothers picture, but there was a spirit to it. We were all young people. ... We were all just fooling around.”
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2024· 8 entries
The Guardian: Roger Corman: the genius director who reversed the film-making process | Brief letters
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The Guardian: Roger Corman obituary
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The Guardian: Roger Corman: cinema's pulp genius whose talent to shock was rocket fuel
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The Guardian: Roger Corman: a career in pictures
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The Guardian: Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and king of the B-movie, dies aged 98
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Died 2024-05-09.
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The Guardian: Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four movie is notoriously terrible – do we really want it resuscitated?
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“s official Instagram account, his sons were not mentioned in the announcement:”
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2022· 1 entry
Corman participated in the Sight & Sound film polls of that year
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: How we made: Jane Asher and Roger Corman on The Masque of the Red Death
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2018· 1 entry
Corman and his wife were sued by their sons over the sale of Corman's film library
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2017· 1 entry
The Guardian: B-movie king Roger Corman: ‘Death Race isn’t an essay on violence – it’s an action comedy’
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2016· 1 entry
Corman alleged in litigation he was owed $170 million against a financial planner
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2014· 3 entries
The Guardian: Six Gothic Tales review – Philip French on Roger Corman’s elegant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe
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The Guardian: The Pit and the Pendulum review – Philip French on Roger Corman's low-budget, hair-raising Poe adaptation
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“These foreign countries are offering subsidies that are so great that not only I but many independent producers are moving overseas”
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2012· 1 entry
Won Telluride Film Festival Silver Medallion (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Corman cited James Cameron's Avatar (2009) and Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010) as examples of "great imagination and originality"
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2010· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (2010).
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Writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Corman for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror, of which the second half of the second episode focuses on Corman
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Corman was inducted into the Beverly Hills High School Hall of Fame
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Roger Corman teamed up New Horizons Pictures with Shout
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2009· 3 entries
Corman produced and directed alongside director Joe Dante the web series Splatter for Netflix
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Corman was sued by his children, who claimed they had been unfairly fired from the family production business after raising questions about the family trust
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Was awarded an Academy Honorary Award "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers"
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2006· 1 entry
Corman said he made 60% of his films overseas
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1998· 2 entries
Awarded Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement (1998).
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Awarded Time Machine Award (1998).
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1997· 1 entry
"action adventure, the suspense thriller, science fiction and horror
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Inkpot Award (1995).
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Corman was executive producer on Roger Corman Presents, a special series of 13 movies for Showtime with budgets of around $1
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1990· 1 entry
Corman published an autobiography, written in collaboration with Jim Jerome, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime and thereby, unwittingly, joined my act
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded The President's Memorial Award (1984).
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1975· 2 entries
“the most successful independent film company in the country...if you count AIP as a major”
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Corman said New World was "the most successful independent film company in the country
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1965· 1 entry
“For ten years as an independent I could get financing for $100–$200–$300,000 pictures. Everything had been interesting, artistically satisfying, economically satisfying. But I decided I was going nowhere and wanted to move directly into the business. So I accepted a contract with Columbia.”
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1964· 2 entries
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
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Corman was the youngest producer/director to be given a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as retrospectives at the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art
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1959· 1 entry
Corman founded The Filmgroup with his brother Gene, a company producing or releasing low-budget black-and-white films as double features for drive-ins and action houses
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1958· 1 entry
For I Mobster, a gangster story, co-produced by Edward L
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1947· 1 entry
Studied at Stanford University, Bachelor of Science (1947).
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1926· 1 entry
Born 1926-04-05.
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