Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal. He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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- 2024 · Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf as Self
- 2024 · Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World as Self
- 2024 · Jim Henson Idea Man as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · Jonathan & Jesus as Self
- 2023 · Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva as Self
- 2023 · Spooktacular! as
- 2023 · The Lost Weekend: A Love Story as Self
- 2023 · Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC as Self
- 2022 · Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon as Self
- 2022 · 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony as Self - Presenter
- 2022 · Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It) as Self
- 2022 · Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Alice Cooper - Hellfest as Self - Vocals
- 2022 · Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting 2022 as Himself
- 2022 · Rock this Town as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories as Self
- 2021 · The History of Metal and Horror as Self
- 2021 · Rock Camp: The Movie as Self
- 2020 · Zappa as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #5: HAUNTED LIVES as Self
- 2020 · The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Laurel Canyon as Self
- 2020 · Reunited Apart as Self
- 2020 · Stars in the House as Self
- 2019 · Suzi Q as Self
- 2019 · House of Cardin as Self
- 2019 · Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf as Self
- 2019 · Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine as Self - Musician
- 2019 · Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean as Self
- 2018 · Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik as Self
- 2018 · Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll as Self
- 2018 · Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness as Self
- 2018 · Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018 as Self
- 2018 · Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert as King Herod
- 2018 · The Top Ten Revealed as Self
- 2017 · Alice Cooper - A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris as Self
- 2017 · Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017 as Self - Vocals
- 2017 · Glam Rock at the BBC as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017 as Self - Vocals
- 2017 · Hired Gun as Self
- 2017 · Cum On Feel The Noize as Self
- 2015 · To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100 as Self
- 2015 · Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini as Self
- 2015 · Hollywood Vampires - Rock in Rio 2015 as Self - Vocals
- 2015 · Danny Says as Self
- 2014 · Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip as Self
- 2014 · Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken) as Self - Vocals
- 2014 · The Art of McCartney as Self
- 2014 · Wacken as Self
- 2014 · An Honest Liar as Self
- 2014 · Super Duper Alice Cooper as Self (voice)
- 2014 · Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972 as Self
- 2013 · Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11 as Self
- 2013 · Skum Rocks! as Self / Narrator (voice)
- 2013 · Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th as Self - Rock Legend
- 2013 · Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon as Self
- 2013 · The Sunflower Superjam 2012 as Self
- 2013 · A Band Called Death as Self
- 2013 · Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film as Self
- 2013 · Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen as Self
- 2013 · Alice Cooper: Live at Wacken Open Air 2013 as Self
- 2012 · Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974 as Self
- 2012 · Alice Cooper - AVO Session as Self
- 2012 · Bigfoot as Alice Cooper
- 2012 · Counting Cars as Self - Host
- 2012 · Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story as Self
- 2012 · Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012 as Self
- 2012 · Dark Shadows as Alice Cooper
- 2012 · Sunset Strip as Self
- 2012 · From Straight to Bizarre as Self
- 2011 · Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear as Self
- 2011 · The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics as Self
- 2011 · Bubble Guppies as Windy Pete (voice)
- 2011 · Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre as Self
- 2010 · Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death as Self - Vocals
- 2010 · Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy as Self
- 2010 · Lemmy as Self
- 2009 · 100 Most Shocking Music Moments as Self
- 2009 · VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments as Self
- 2009 · When Woodstock Was Young as Self
- 2009 · Celebrity Ghost Stories as Self
- 2009 · Live from Studio Five as Self
- 2009 · Suck as Bartender
- 2009 · This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s as Self (archive footage)
- 2008 · Promised Land of Heavy Metal as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep as Self - Vocals
- 2007 · Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation as Self
- 2007 · The Graham Norton Show as Self
- 2007 · The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1979 as Self
- 2006 · The One Show as Self - Guest
- 2006 · The One Show as Self
- 2006 · Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005 as Lead Vocal
- 2006 · Best Ever Muppet Moments as Self
- 2006 · 40 Years of Star Trek as Self
- 2006 · Alice Cooper: Go To Hell as Self - Vocals
- 2005 · The Perfect Scary Movie as Self
- 2005 · Metal: A Headbanger's Journey as Self
- 2004 · Spooks & Creeps as Pirate Jack ("Freakshow")
- 2004 · Rockthology 2 as
- 2004 · Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8 as Self
- 2004 · Live Eighties as Self
- 2004 · John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies as Self
- 2004 · Larry presents: Best of The 80s as Self
- 2003 · Let it Rock: Volume 1 as Self
- 2003 · Prachtig 80: Volume 2 as Self
- 2003 · Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection as Self
- 2003 · Mayor of the Sunset Strip as Self
- 2003 · Die ultimative Chartshow as Self
- 2003 · Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self - Musical Guest
- 2002 · Top Gear as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
- 2002 · Monk as Alice Cooper
- 2002 · I Love Muppets as Self
- 2002 · When Rock Ruled the World as Self
- 2001 · The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One as Self
- 2001 · 25 Years of Punk as Self
- 2001 · Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror as Self
- 2001 · The Attic Expeditions as Samuel Leventhal
- 2000 · Alice Cooper: Brutally Live as Self - Vocals
- 2000 · The Filth and the Fury as Self (archive footage)
- 2000 · Trigger Happy TV as
- 1999 · Rove as Self
- 1999 · Where Are They Now? as Self
- 1999 · The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self
- 1999 · Freakshow as Pirate Jack (voice)
- 1998 · That '70s Show as Alice Cooper
- 1997 · Leute heute as Self
- 1997 · Classic Albums as Self
- 1997 · Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America! as Self
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self
- 1996 · Never Mind the Buzzcocks as Self - Host
- 1995 · The Frank Skinner Show as Self
- 1995 · The History of Rock 'n' Roll as Self
- 1994 · A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who as Self
- 1994 · Room 101 as Self
- 1994 · Space Ghost Coast to Coast as Self
- 1992 · Wayne's World as Alice Cooper
- 1992 · Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15 as Self
- 1991 · Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story as Self
- 1991 · Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare as Mr. Underwood
- 1991 · Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts as Self
- 1990 · Alice Cooper: Trashes The World as Self - Vocals
- 1990 · Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7 as Self
- 1989 · Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1 as Self
- 1989 · Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3 as Self
- 1988 · This Morning as Self
- 1988 · The Freddy Krueger Special as Self
- 1988 · The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years as Self
- 1987 · Prince of Darkness as Street Schizo
- 1987 · WWE WrestleMania III as Self
- 1987 · Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns as Self - Vocals
- 1986 · WWF Wrestling Challenge as Self
- 1984 · Monster Dog as Victor Raven
- 1982 · Alice Cooper à Paris as Self
- 1980 · This Is America Part 2 as Self (archive footage)
- 1980 · Roadie as Alice Cooper
- 1980 · Pink Lady as Alice Cooper
- 1979 · Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper as Self
- 1978 · Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as Father Sun
- 1978 · Grease Day USA as Self
- 1978 · Sextette as Waiter
- 1978 · Alice Cooper and Friends as Self
- 1976 · Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare as Steven / Alice
- 1976 · The Muppet Show as Self - Special Guest Star
- 1975 · Alice Cooper: The Nightmare as Steven
- 1975 · Les Rendez-vous du dimanche as Self
- 1974 · Tony Orlando and Dawn as Self
- 1974 · Good to See You Again Alice Cooper as Self - Vocals
- 1973 · The Snoop Sisters as Prince
- 1973 · Rock-a-bye as Self
- 1971 · Medicine Ball Caravan as Self
- 1971 · Disco as Self
- 1970 · Diary of a Mad Housewife as Alice Cooper
- 1970 · Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970 as Self
- 1970 · Alice Cooper as Self
- 1964 · Top of the Pops as Self - Host
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self