Roger Corman
Roger William Corman April 5 1926 May 9 2024 was an American film director producer and actor Known under various monikers such as The Pope of Pop Cinema The King of The Bs The Spiritual Godfather of the New Hollywood and The King of Cult he was known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film Many of the more than 500 features directed or produced by Corman were lowbudget films that later attracted a cult following such as The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 The Intruder 1962 X The Man with the Xray Eyes 1963 and the counterculture films The Wild Angels 1966 and The Trip 1967 House of Usher 1960 became the first of eight films directed by Corman that were adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and which collectively came to be known as the Poe Cycle In 1964 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 He was the cofounder of New World Pictures the founder of New Concorde and was a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences In 2009 he was awarded an Academy Honorary Award for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers Corman was also famous for handling the US 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 Ron Howard Martin Scorsese Jonathan Demme Peter Bogdanovich Joe Dante John Sayles and James Cameron and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda Jack Nicholson Dennis Hopper Bruce Dern Diane Ladd and William Shatner
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