Roger Corman filmography
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Poster for Corman-directed The Raven, 1963
This is a list of films directed or produced by Roger Corman.
This is a partial list. Corman is famously prolific, 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.
| Year | Title | Contribution | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Monster from the Ocean Floor | Producer | Directed by Wyott Ordung |
| 1955 | Swamp Women | Director | |
| 1955 | Five Guns West | Director | |
| 1955 | Apache Woman | Director | |
| 1955 | Day the World Ended | Director | |
| 1955 | The Fast and the Furious | Producer | Directed by John Ireland |
| 1956 | The Oklahoma Woman | Director | |
| 1956 | Gunslinger | Director | |
| 1956 | It Conquered the World | Director | |
| 1957 | Naked Paradise | Director | |
| 1957 | Carnival Rock | Director | |
| 1957 | Not of This Earth | Director | |
| 1957 | Attack of the Crab Monsters | Director | |
| 1957 | The Undead | Director | |
| 1957 | Rock All Night | Director | |
| 1957 | Teenage Doll | Director | |
| 1957 | Sorority Girl | Director | |
| 1957 | The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent | Director | |
| 1958 | I, Mobster | Director | |
| 1958 | War of the Satellites | Director | |
| 1958 | Machine-Gun Kelly | Director | |
| 1958 | Teenage Cave Man | Director | |
| 1958 | She Gods of Shark Reef | Director | |
| 1959 | A Bucket of Blood | Director | |
| 1960 | Ski Troop Attack | Director | |
| 1960 | The Wasp Woman | Director | |
| 1960 | House of Usher | Director | |
| 1960 | The Little Shop of Horrors | Director | |
| 1960 | Last Woman on Earth | Director | |
| 1961 | Atlas | Director | |
| 1961 | Creature from the Haunted Sea | Director | |
| 1961 | The Pit and the Pendulum | Director | |
| 1962 | The Premature Burial | Director | |
| 1962 | The Intruder | Director | |
| 1962 | Tales of Terror | Director | |
| 1962 | Tower of London | Director | |
| 1963 | The Young Racers | Director | |
| 1963 | The Raven | Director | |
| 1963 | The Terror | Director | |
| 1963 | The Haunted Palace | Director | |
| 1963 | X | Director | |
| 1963 | Dementia 13 | Producer | Directed by Francis Ford Coppola |
| 1964 | The Masque of the Red Death | Director | |
| 1964 | The Secret Invasion | Director | |
| 1964 | The Tomb of Ligeia | Director | |
| 1965 | Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet | Producer | Directed by Curtis Harrington |
| 1966 | The Wild Angels | Director | |
| 1966 | Blood Bath | Producer | Directed by Jack Hill and Stephanie Rothman |
| 1967 | The St. Valentine's Day Massacre | Director | |
| 1967 | The Trip | Director | |
| 1968 | Targets | Producer | Directed by Peter Bogdanovich |
| 1969 | Target: Harry | Director | |
| 1970 | Bloody Mama | Director | |
| 1970 | The Dunwich Horror | Producer | Directed by Daniel Haller |
| 1971 | Gas-s-s-s | Director | |
| 1971 | Von Richthofen and Brown | Director | |
| 1972 | Boxcar Bertha | Producer | Directed by Martin Scorsese |
| 1973 | Sweet Kill | Producer | Directed by Curtis Hanson |
| 1974 | Caged Heat | Producer | Directed by Jonathan Demme |
| 1974 | Cockfighter | Producer | Directed by Monte Hellman |
| 1975 | Death Race 2000 | Producer | Directed by Paul Bartel |
| 1976 | Fighting Mad | Producer | Directed by Jonathan Demme |
| 1977 | Grand Theft Auto | Producer | Directed by Ron Howard |
| 1978 | Deathsport | Producer | Directed by Allan Arkush and Nicholas Niciphor |
| 1978 | Piranha | Producer | Directed by Joe Dante |
| 1979 | Rock 'n' Roll High School | Producer | Directed by Allan Arkush |
| 1980 | Battle Beyond the Stars | Producer | Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami |
| 1981 | Galaxy of Terror | Producer | Directed by Bruce D. Clark |
| 1982 | Forbidden World | Producer | Directed by Allan Holzman |
| 1987 | Sweet Revenge | Producer | Directed by Mark Sobel |
| 1987 | Munchies | Producer | Directed by Bettina Hirsch |
| 1988 | Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure | Producer | Directed by Deborah Brock |
| 1990 | Frankenstein Unbound | Director | |
| 1991 | The Unborn | Producer | Directed by Rodman Flender |
| 1991 | Killer Instinct | Producer | Directed by David Tausik |
| 1993 | Carnosaur | Producer | Directed by Adam Simon |
| 1994 | Hellfire | Producer | |
| 1995 | The Wasp Woman | Producer | Directed by Jim Wynorski |
| 1995 | Carnosaur 2 | Producer | Directed by Louis Morneau |
| 1995 | A Bucket of Blood | Producer | Directed by Michael James McDonald |
| 1996 | Carnosaur 3: Primal Species | Producer | Directed by Jonathan Winfrey |
| 2001 | Raptor | Producer | Directed by Jim Wynorski |
| 2002 | Escape from Afghanistan | Producer | Directed by Timur Bekmambetov |
| 2004 | Dinocroc | Producer | Directed by Kevin O'Neill |
| 2007 | Supergator | Producer | Directed by Kevin O'Neill |
| 2008 | Death Race | Producer | Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson |
| 2010 | Dinoshark | Producer | Directed by Kevin O'Neill |
| 2010 | Dinocroc vs. Supergator | Producer | Directed by Jim Wynorski |
| 2010 | Sharktopus | Producer | Directed by Declan O'Brien |
| 2012 | Piranhaconda | Producer | Directed by Jim Wynorski |
Unmade Films [edit]
- adaptation of She by H Rider Haggard for American International Pictures (late 1950s) - never made although Corman got to travel overseas scouting locations[1]
- 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[2]
- biopic on Robert E. Lee for United Artists (early 1960s)[3]
- 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[4]
- adaptation of Kafka's The Penal Colony for Columbia to be shot on the set for King Rat (1965)[5]
- script by novelist Richard Yates about the Battle of Iwo Jima (circa 1965)[6]
- The Long Ride Home, a Western based on a script by Robert Towne (circa 1965)[7]
- Couples based on a novel by John Updike for United Artists (circa 1971)[8]
References [edit]
- Corman, Roger & Jim Jerome, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never lost a Dime, Muller, 1990