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Roger Corman
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American film director, producer, and actor (1926–2024)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1926-04-05
- Died
- 2024-05-09
- Works
- 21
Top works
- How i Made Movies in Hollywood d and Never Lost a Dime
- Corman/Poe
- Intruder (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)
- All I Need to Know about FILMMAKING I Learned from the TOXIC AVENGER
- Todo lo que siempre quise saber sobre cine lo aprendí de El Vengador Tóxico
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-04-05
- Active to
- 2024-05-09
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 216
- Total plays
- 452
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 85,169x
- Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,574x
- An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust
· 1995 · cited 28,261x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,736x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,622x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “We were shooting a Ku Klux Klan parade led by Bill [William Shatner], and he went through the black part of town in a parade of cars carrying crosses with the hoods, and then they burned the flaming cross. We shot late at night; I said, "Cut, print!" and everybody went, "Yeah, we're out of here!" Guys raced to their cars, the grips threw the last couple of things in the trucks and we just drove straight north.”
- “I come across as a very straightforward guy and that tends to surprise people [...] Clearly my subconscious mind must be some kind of boiling inferno.”
- “[Asked why he never made a film like the art house titles his company distributed: I]t's an economic situation. All of those films were made in Europe with government subsidies. Fellini, Bergman, Truffaut did not have the necessity of having to earn their money back and so they were free to do what they liked. In the US it's different. It's a money-making industry, so that's what you have to do”
- “I don't know if I would say I'm an artist. [...] I would say that I'm a craftsman. I attempt to ply my trade in the best possible way. If occasionally something transcends the craft, then that's wonderful. [...] It doesn't happen very often.”
- “My father was an engineer and I intended to follow in his footsteps, but movies became my real passion. Careful planning is important in engineering, so I used that experience to focus on film preproduction. With the low budgets I had, I couldn't afford to have the cast and crew waiting around for days on a 10-day picture while I figured out how and what to shoot.”
- “It's not so much watching them but understanding how they were made – the preparation and willingness to deviate when necessary especially if you're on a low budget, I also took every film I made seriously and did my best on every one.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Roger William Corman , ( 1926-04-05 ) April 5, 1926, Detroit , Michigan , U.S.
- Died
- May 9, 2024 (2024-05-09) (aged 98), Santa Monica, California , U.S.
- Education
- Stanford University ( BS )
- Occupations
- Film director producer actor
- Years active
- 1954–2024
- Spouse
- Julie Halloran ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. December 26, 1970</span>"}]]}'>1970 )
- Relatives
- Gene Corman (brother)
- Allegiance
- United States
- Branch
- United States Navy
- Service years
- 1944–1946
- Conflicts
- World War II
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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", “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.
Many of the more than 500 features directed or produced by Corman were low-budget films that later attracted a cult following, such as A Bucket of Blood (1959), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), The Intruder (1962), X: The Man with the X-ray 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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roger Corman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.