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Roger Corman

Roger Corman
Corman in Hollywood, 2012
Born
Roger William Corman

(1926-04-05) April 5, 1926 (age 98)
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Alma materStanford University (BS, Industrial Engineering, 1947)[1]
Occupations
  • Film director
  • producer
  • actor
Years active1954–present
Known forFull list
Spouse
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(m. 1970)​
Children4
RelativesGene Corman (brother)
AwardsFull list
Military career
Allegiance United States
Service/branch United States Navy
Years of service1944–1946
Battles/warsWorld War II

Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926)[2] is an American film director, producer, and actor.[3][4] Known under various monikers such as "The Pope of Pop Cinema", "The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood", and "The King of Cult", he is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.[5] Many of Corman's films are low-budget cult films including some which are adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.[6]

In 1964, Corman became the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française,[7] 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 is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[8] In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award[9] "for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers".[10]

Corman is 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,[11] Ron Howard,[12] Martin Scorsese,[13] Jonathan Demme,[14] Peter Bogdanovich,[15] Joe Dante,[16] John Sayles,[17] and James Cameron,[18][19] and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.[20][21] He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda,[22] Jack Nicholson,[18] Dennis Hopper,[17] Bruce Dern,[23] Diane Ladd,[24] and William Shatner.[25]

Corman has occasionally acted in films of directors who started with him, including The Godfather Part II (1974),[26] The Silence of the Lambs (1991),[27] Philadelphia (1993).[28] Apollo 13 (1995),[29] and The Manchurian Candidate (2004),[30] A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011. The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well-received screening at Sundance.[31]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference STANFORDALUMNIMAGAZINE was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "New Horizons Pictures – Roger Corman Official Website". Retrieved May 25, 2010.
  3. ^ "Roger Corman • Great Director profile • Senses of Cinema". sensesofcinema.com. December 29, 2001. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  4. ^ "Roger Corman". Biography. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  5. ^ Leeder, Murray (2019). "Roger Corman: Cinema and Media Studies".
  6. ^ Olsen, Eric B. "Roger Corman". History of Horror. Archived from the original on January 21, 2013. Retrieved April 19, 2013.
  7. ^ "ROGER CORMAN – FAST, CHEAP & UNDER CONTROL". The Melbourne Cinémathèque. Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved August 1, 2013.
  8. ^ "Roger Corman". Oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. September 17, 2014. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  9. ^ Rafferty, Terrence (January 8, 2010). "The Oscars – Roger Corman, King of the B's, Takes His Place on the A List". The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  10. ^ "Roger Corman to receive honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement". NOLA.com. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  11. ^ "Scorsese to De Niro: 10 Hollywood Greats Who Got Their Start with Roger Corman". Time. ISSN 0040-781X. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  12. ^ Gaita, Paul (December 10, 2015). "How Roger Corman Gave Ron Howard His First Big Break". Variety. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  13. ^ "Watch Martin Scorsese Talk About Roger Corman in a Scene from 'Corman's World'". IndieWire. December 15, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  14. ^ "Jonathan Demme on his transition from exploitation movies to his 'best work': 'Silence of the Lambs'". Los Angeles Times. February 10, 1991. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  15. ^ Targets (An Introduction by Peter Bogdanovich) (DVD). Los Angeles, California: Paramount Pictures. 1968.
  16. ^ The Fall of the House of Usher (Legend to Legend: Joe Dante Reflects Upon Roger Corman and the Poe Cycle) (Blu-ray Disc). Hertfordshire, UK: Arrow Video. 1960.
  17. ^ a b "Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  18. ^ a b Maslin, Janet (2008). "Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel (1978)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 20, 2008. Among the Corman associates and protegees interviewed are David Carradine, Peter Fonda, Ron Howard, Paul Bartel, Martin Scorsese, Joe Dante and Peter Bogdanovich.
  19. ^ On Demme, see Charlie Rose (PBS), first aired April 29, 2017.
  20. ^ Steuer, Eric. "10 Ways B-Movie Master Roger Corman Changed Filmmaking". WIRED. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  21. ^ "Watch: How Roger Corman Gave Rise to Scorsese, Coppola, and New Hollywood". No Film School. February 15, 2017. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  22. ^ "Roger Corman, Peter Fonda, and Jack Nicholson Take Audiences on THE TRIP". Cinapse. April 14, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  23. ^ "'The Wild Angels' Lays Out the Rules of the Biker Film". PopMatters. April 22, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  24. ^ King, Susan (December 24, 2015). "Diane Ladd sees kindred spirit in 'Joy' costar Jennifer Lawrence". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  25. ^ Sagers, Aaron (October 31, 2017). "WATCH: Roger Corman on working with William Shatner on The Intruder". Syfy. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  26. ^ "Roger Corman cameo in Godfather Part II". Public Domain Library. October 4, 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  27. ^ "10 Things You Didn't Know About 'The Silence Of The Lambs'". Decider. February 12, 2016. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  28. ^ Empire. "Roger Corman". Empire. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  29. ^ "Repertoire Of Horrors: The Films Of Roger Corman". NPR. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  30. ^ Kermode, Mark (November 21, 2004). "First, drill a hole in his head..." The Guardian. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
  31. ^ "A&E INDIEFILMS INVESTS IN SUNDANCE ENTRY "CORMAN'S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL"". Movie City News. Retrieved April 19, 2013.