Roger Corman

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biography

Real name : Roger William Corman 

Date of Birth (location) : 5 April 1926, Detroit, Michigan, USA. 

Biography

After studying engineering (a subject he said was ideally suited to making low-budget films on a tight schedule), Roger Corman attempted to break into films by the tried and trusted method of working as a messenger for 20th-Century Fox, eventually rising to the position of story analyst. He started direct involvement in films in 1953 as a producer and screenwriter, making his debut as director in 1955. Between then and his official retirement in 1971 he directed dozens of films, often as many as six or seven per year, typically shot extremely quickly on leftover sets from other, larger, productions. His probably unbeatable record for a professional 35mm feature film was two days and a night to shoot the original version of Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960), though several other films were made in less than a week. In the early 1960s, his budgets got bigger (though never big), when he made a series of adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories starring Vincent Price. Apart from Frankenstein Unbound (1990), he retired from directing in 1971 to concentrate on production and distribution through his company New World (and later Concorde), making low-budget exploitation films and using the profits to distribute distinguished art films. Apart from making dozens of enormously entertaining films (there are amazingly few duds in his output), Corman's place in film history is assured simply through his unrivalled eye for talent - among many world-class names who were employed by him at a very early stage in their careers are Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron, Peter Bogdanovich, Joe Dante and many others - which means that his influence on modern American cinema is almost incalculable. 

Biography Writer Michael Brooke <michael@everyman.demon.co.uk> 

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filmography

Producer 

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Director

1. Frankenstein Unbound (1990) µ¹¾Æ¿Â ÇÁ¶ûÄ˽´Å¸ÀÎ
2. Red Baron, The (1971) ... aka Von Richthofen and Brown (1971) 
3. Bloody Mama (1970) 
4. Gas-s-s-s (1970) ... aka Gas-s-s-s...or, It May Become Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It (1970)
5. Target: Harry (1969) ... aka How to Make It (1969)
6. St. Valentine's Day Massacre, The (1967) 
7. Trip, The (1967) 
8. Wild Angels, The (1966) 
9. Tomb of Ligeia (1965) 
10. Masque of the Red Death, The (1964) 
11. Secret Invasion (1964) 
12. Haunted Palace, The (1963) 
13. Raven, The (1963) 
14. Terror, The (1963)
15. X - the Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) ... aka Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) ... aka X (1963) ¿¢½º·¹ÀÌ ¸Ç
16. Young Racers, The (1963) 
17. Premature Burial, The (1962)
18. Tales of Terror (1962) 
19. Tower of London (1962)
20. Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961) 
21. Intruder, The (1961) ... aka I Hate Your Guts! (1961) ... aka Shame (1961) ... aka Stranger, The (1961) 
22. Pit and the Pendulum, The (1961) 
23. House of Usher (1960) ... aka Fall of the House of Usher (1960) 
24. Last Woman on Earth, The (1960) 
25. Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)
26. Ski Troop Attack (1960) 
27. Wasp Woman, The (1960)
28. Bucket of Blood, A (1959) 
29. I, Mobster (1958) 
30. Machine Gun Kelly (1958)
31. She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
32. Teenage Caveman (1958) 
33. War of the Satellites (1958)
34. Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957)
35. Carnival Rock (1957) 
36. Naked Paradise (1957) 
37. Not of This Earth (1957) 
38. Rock All Night (1957) 
39. Sorority Girl (1957) 
40. Teenage Doll (1957) 
41. Undead, The (1957) 
42. Viking Women and the Sea Serpent, The (1957) 
43. Day the World Ended, The (1956) 
44. Gunslinger, The (1956) ¿©ÀÚ º¸¾È°ü ·ÎÁî (ÀÏÁø)
45. It Conquered the World (1956) 
46. Oklahoma Woman, The (1956)
47. Apache Woman (1955) 
48. Five Guns West (1955) 
49. Swamp Women (1955) ... aka Cruel Swamp (1955) ... aka Swamp Diamonds (1955)

Actor

1. Apollo 13 (1995) .... Congressman 
2. Runaway Daughters (1994) (TV) .... Mr. Randolph
3. Body Bags (1993) (TV) .... Dr. Bregman ... aka John Carpenter Presents Body Bags (1993) (TV)
4. Philadelphia (1993) .... Mr. Laird 
5. Silence of the Lambs, The (1991) .... FBI Director Hayden Burke 
6. Hollywood Boulevard II (1989) 
7. Lords of the Deep (1989) 
8. Swing Shift (1984) .... Mr. MacBride 
9. Stand der Dinge, Der (1982) .... The lawyer ... aka State of Things, The (1982) 
10. Howling, The (1981) .... Man in Phone Booth (Uncredited)
11. Cannonball (1976) ... aka Carquake (1970) 
12. Godfather: Part II, The (1974) .... Senator #2

Writer

1. Frankenstein Unbound (1990) µ¹¾Æ¿Â ÇÁ¶ûÄ˽´Å¸ÀΠ
2. Terror, The (1963) 

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- Roger Who? 

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- the Corman Fomula = Less is More ? 

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- Frankenstein Unbound

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