Roger Corman filmography

This is a list of films directed or produced by Roger Corman.

Poster for Corman-directed The Raven, 1963

This is a partial list. Corman was famously prolific, both in his American International Pictures years and afterward. The IMDb credits Corman with 55 directed films and some 385 produced films from 1954 through 2008, many as un-credited producer or executive producer (consistent with his role as head of his own New World Pictures from 1970 through 1983). Corman also has significant credits as writer and actor.

Film

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Year Title Director Producer Notes
1955 Five Guns West Yes Yes
Apache Woman Yes Yes
Day the World Ended Yes Yes
1956 Swamp Women Yes Yes
The Oklahoma Woman Yes Yes
It Conquered the World Yes Yes
Gunslinger Yes Yes Original idea
1957 Naked Paradise Yes Yes
Not of This Earth Yes Yes
Attack of the Crab Monsters Yes Yes
Rock All Night Yes Yes
The Undead Yes Yes
Teenage Doll Yes Yes
Carnival Rock Yes Yes
Sorority Girl Yes Yes
1958 The Saga of the Viking Women and
Their Voyage to the Waters of the
Great Sea Serpent
Yes Yes
War of the Satellites Yes Yes
Machine-Gun Kelly Yes Yes
She Gods of Shark Reef Yes No
Teenage Caveman Yes No
1959 I Mobster Yes Yes
A Bucket of Blood Yes Yes
The Wasp Woman Yes No
1960 Ski Troop Attack Yes Yes
House of Usher Yes Yes
Last Woman on Earth Yes Yes
The Little Shop of Horrors Yes Yes
1961 Atlas Yes Yes
Creature from the Haunted Sea Yes Yes
The Pit and the Pendulum Yes Yes
1962 The Premature Burial Yes Yes
The Intruder Yes Yes
Tales of Terror Yes Yes
Tower of London Yes No
1963 The Young Racers Yes Yes
The Raven Yes Yes
The Terror Yes Yes
The Haunted Palace Yes Yes
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes Yes Yes
1964 The Masque of the Red Death Yes Yes
The Secret Invasion Yes No
The Tomb of Ligeia Yes Yes
1966 The Wild Angels Yes Yes
1967 A Time for Killing Uncredited No Replaced by Phil Karlson
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre Yes Yes
The Trip Yes Yes
1968 The Wild Racers Uncredited Uncredited
1969 De Sade Uncredited No Took over directing from Cy Endfield
Target: Harry Yes No Credited as "Henry Neill"
1970 Bloody Mama Yes Yes
Gas-s-s-s Yes Yes
1971 Von Richthofen and Brown Yes Yes
1978 Deathsport Uncredited Yes
1990 Frankenstein Unbound Yes No Also screenwriter

Producer only

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Year Title Director Notes
1954 Monster from the Ocean Floor Wyott Ordung
The Fast and the Furious Edward Sampson
John Ireland
Also story writer, stunt driver and 2nd unit director
1958 Night of the Blood Beast Bernard L. Kowalski
1963 Dementia 13 Francis Ford Coppola
1965 Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet Curtis Harrington
1966 Blood Bath Jack Hill
Stephanie Rothman
1967 Devil's Angels Daniel Haller
1968 Targets Peter Bogdanovich
1970 The Dunwich Horror Daniel Haller
1972 Boxcar Bertha Martin Scorsese
1973 Sweet Kill Curtis Hanson
1974 Caged Heat Jonathan Demme
Cockfighter Monte Hellman
The Arena Steve Carver
Joe D'Amato
1975 Death Race 2000 Paul Bartel
1976 Fighting Mad Jonathan Demme
1977 Grand Theft Auto Ron Howard
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden Anthony Page
1978 Piranha Joe Dante
1979 Rock 'n' Roll High School Allan Arkush
1980 Battle Beyond the Stars Jimmy T. Murakami
1981 Galaxy of Terror Bruce D. Clark
Smokey Bites the Dust Charles B. Griffith
1982 Forbidden World Allan Holzman
1983 Space Raiders Howard R. Cohen
Suburbia Penelope Spheeris Also presenter
1986 Amazons Alejandro Sessa
1987 Sweet Revenge Mark Sobel
Slumber Party Massacre II Deborah Brock
Munchies Bettina Hirsch
1988 Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure Deborah Brock
1989 Masque of the Red Death Larry Brand
The Terror Within Thierry Notz
1990 Naked Obsession Dan Golden
Slumber Party Massacre III Sally Mattison
1991 The Unborn Rodman Flender
Field of Fire
1992 Killer Instinct David Tausik
Munchie Jim Wynorski
1993 Carnosaur Adam Simon
Dracula Rising Fred Gallo
The Skateboard Kid Larry Swerdlove
1994 The Unborn 2 Rick Jacobson
Angel of Destruction Charles Philip Moore
Hellfire Rick Jacobson
The Fantastic Four Oley Sassone Unreleased
1995 Carnosaur 2 Louis Morneau
1996 Carnosaur 3: Primal Species Jonathan Winfrey
1997 Eruption
1999 The Shepherd Peter Hayman
2001 Raptor Jim Wynorski
2002 Escape from Afghanistan Timur Bekmambetov
2004 Dinocroc Kevin O'Neill Also presenter
2006 The Hunt for Eagle One Brian Clyde
The Hunt for Eagle One: Crash Point
2007 Supergator Kevin O'Neill
2012 Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
2014 Roger Corman's Operation Rogue Brian Clyde
2015 Fist of the Dragon Antony Szeto
2017 Death Race 2050 G.J. Echternkamp

Executive producer

Year Title Director Notes
1955 The Beast with a Million Eyes David Kramarsky
Lou Place
Donald Myers
Uncredited;
Also directed some scenes
1958 Hot Car Girl Bernard L. Kowalski
The Cry Baby Killer Joe Addis
1959 Attack of the Giant Leeches Bernard L. Kowalski
1960 Battle of Blood Island Joel Rapp
1976 Eat My Dust! Charles B. Griffith
1978 Avalanche Corey Allen
1982 Sorceress Jack Hill Hill credited as Brian Stuart
1983 Deathstalker James Sbardellati Sbardellati credited as John Watson
1985 Barbarian Queen Héctor Olivera
1987 Deathstalker II Jim Wynorski
1995 Dillinger and Capone Jon Purdy
2008 Death Race Paul W. S. Anderson
2011 Death Race 2 Roel Reiné
2013 Death Race 3: Inferno
2015 Fist of the Dragon
2018 Death Race: Beyond Anarchy Don Michael Paul

TV movies

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Producer

Year Title Director
1995 Hellfire David Tausik
2006 Saurian John Carl Buechler
2010 Sharktopus Declan O'Brien
2015 Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda Kevin O'Neill
Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf

Executive producer

Year Title Director Notes
1978 Outside Chance Michael Miller
1980 The Georgia Peaches Daniel Haller
1994 Cheyenne Warrior Mark Griffiths
1995 Suspect Device Rick Jacobson Part of the Roger Corman Presents
The Alien Within Scott P. Levy
Sawbones Catherine Cyran
Virtual Seduction Paul Ziller
Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats Dan Golden
The Wasp Woman Jim Wynorski
A Bucket of Blood Michael James McDonald
Piranha Scott P. Levy
Terminal Virus Dan Golden
1996 Subliminal Seduction Andrew Stevens
Inhumanoid Victoria Muspratt
Alien Avengers Lev L. Spiro
The Unspeakable Howard McCain
Last Exit to Earth Katt Shea Part of the Roger Corman Presents
Humanoids from the Deep Jeff Yonis
1997 Alien Avengers II Dave Payne
1999 Velocity Harvey Berman
2001 Avalanche Alley Paul Ziller
2005 Asphalt Wars Henry Crum
Bloodfist 2050 Cirio H. Santiago
2007 Cry of the Winged Serpent Jim Wynorski
2010 Dinoshark Kevin O'Neill
Dinocroc vs. Supergator Jim Wynorski
2011 Camel Spiders
2012 Piranhaconda

Acting roles

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Year Title Role Notes
1954 Monster from the Ocean Floor Tommy Uncredited
The Fast and the Furious Roadblock State Trooper
1957 Naked Paradise Office Worker
1958 War of the Satellites Ground Control Uncredited
Hot Car Girl Cop Who Finds Note
The Cry Baby Killer Joe - TV Truck Man
1959 The Wasp Woman Doctor in the Hospital
1960 Ski Troop Attack German Soldier Entering Cabin
1961 Atlas Greek soldier
1974 The Godfather Part II Senator #2
1976 Cannonball! District Attorney
1981 The Howling Man in Phone Booth Uncredited
1984 Swing Shift Mr. MacBride
1991 The Silence of the Lambs F.B.I. Director Hayden Burke
1993 Body Bags Dr. Bregman Segment "Eye"
Philadelphia Mr. Roger Laird
1995 Apollo 13 Congressman
2000 Scream 3 Studio Executive
2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action Hollywood Director
2009 Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue Himself Documentary

Unmade and unreleased films

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  • High Steel - a "steeplejack story" (1955)[1]
  • Cobra - a film to be shot in India in Cinemascope (1955)[1] with Gaby Bruyère[2]
  • Fortress Beneath the Sea - shot off Baja California (1955)[1]
  • The Kickback by John Robinson and Frank Burt[3]
  • an adaptation of She by H. Rider Haggard for American International Pictures (late 1950s) - never made, although Corman got to travel overseas, scouting locations[4]
  • Devil on Horseback - a Western based on the Brownsville Raid based on a script by Charles B. Griffith (1955)[5]
  • The Stake - a Western by George Leffert to star Dana Andrews[6]
  • Part Time Mother - from a script by Charles B. Griffith[7]
  • The Haunted Dream (circa 1961) - a biopic of Edgar Allan Poe[8]
  • I Flew a Spy Plane Over Russia (early 1960s) - based on the Francis Gary Powers incident with a script written by Robert Towne that Corman claims was not finished in time[9]
  • a biopic on Robert E. Lee for United Artists (early 1960s)[10]
  • an adaptation of Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (mid-1960s) based on a script by Hugh Leonard for Columbia, which they did not want to make[11]
  • an adaptation of Kafka's The Penal Colony for Columbia, to be shot on the set for King Rat (1965)[12]
  • a script by novelist Richard Yates about the Battle of Iwo Jima (circa 1965)[13]
  • The Long Ride Home - a Western based on a script by Robert Towne (circa 1965)[13]
  • Couples - based on a novel by John Updike for United Artists (circa 1971)[14]
  • The Fantastic Four - a film produced by Corman, but never released (1993–94)

Documentary appearances

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References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b c "Movieland events:Paul Schofield gets Huston attention." Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1955, p. 21.
  2. ^ Hopper, Hedda. "Film of life at new aviation academy set for Bob Taylor." Chicago Daily Tribune, March 16, 1955, p. b6.
  3. ^ "Corman takes option to film 'Kickback'." Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1955, p. d5.
  4. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. "Shocker pioneers tell how to make monsters: Want to make a monster? Experts tell how it's done," Los Angeles Times, September 21, 1958, p. E1.
  5. ^ Hopper, Hedda. "Story of ex-fighter to be dramatic film." Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1955, p. 12.
  6. ^ Schallert, Edwin. "Drama: Gable, Turner costar deal foreseen; Andrews indicated for 'Stake'." Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1956, p. 21.
  7. ^ Genet's 'Deathwatch' to be given locally.' Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1959, p. 14.
  8. ^ Scheuer, Philip K. "Warners will film Kennedy navy saga: Exploit titled 'PT Boat 109'; Paul Newman, Ritt Lo repeat." Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1961, p. B11.
  9. ^ Corman 1990, p. 108.
  10. ^ Corman 1990, p. 170.
  11. ^ Corman 1990, p. 124.
  12. ^ Corman 1990, pp. 124–125.
  13. ^ a b Corman 1990, p. 125.
  14. ^ Corman 1990, pp. 180–181.

Bibliography

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  • Corman, Roger and Jim Jerome, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never lost a Dime. New York: Muller, 1990. ISBN 978-0-3945-6974-1.
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