Larry Cohen
July 15, 1941 (83 years old) in Kingston, New York, USA
Lawrence George Cohen (July 15, 1941 – March 23, 2019) was an American screenwriter, producer, and director of film and television, best known as a B-movie auteur of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and satirical elements — during the 1970s and 1980s, such as It's Alive (1974), God Told Me To (1976), It Lives Again (1978), The Stuff (1985) and A Return to Salem's Lot (1987). After that, he concentrated mainly on screenwriting, including Phone Booth (2002), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Credits
- 2023 · Masters of the Grind as Self
- 2020 · In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
- 2020 · Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business as Self
- 2019 · In Search of Darkness as Self
- 2018 · The Fear is Real as Self
- 2018 · King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen as Self
- 2017 · Bette Davis: Larger Than Life as Self
- 2015 · 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street as Himself
- 2013 · House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! as Self
- 2011 · Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell as
- 2011 · American Grindhouse as Himself
- 2009 · Nightmares in Red, White and Blue as Self
- 2009 · Tales from the Script as Self
- 2006 · The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
- 2006 · Prohibition Opens the Floodgates as Self
- 2006 · Welcome to the Big House as Self
- 2006 · Hitchcocked! as Self
- 2006 · Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films as Self
- 2006 · Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood as Self
- 2006 · Shooting the Police: Cops on Film as Self
- 2005 · Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
- 2004 · Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted as Self
- 2004 · 100 Scariest Movie Moments as Self
- 2002 · BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- 1997 · Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self
- 1985 · Spies Like Us as Ace Tomato Agent
- 1984 · Special Effects as Journalist (uncredited)