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Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen

Director · Born 1941-07-15 · Kingston, New York, USA

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Biography

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​

Directed

  1. The Stuff (1985) — Director
  2. Q (1982) — Director
  3. A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) — Director
  4. Masters of Horror (2005) — Director
  5. It's Alive (1974) — Director
  6. God Told Me To (1976) — Director
  7. The Ambulance (1990) — Director
  8. Black Caesar (1973) — Director
  9. It Lives Again (1978) — Director
  10. It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987) — Director
  11. Hell Up In Harlem (1973) — Director
  12. Special Effects (1984) — Director
  13. Wicked Stepmother (1989) — Director
  14. Original Gangstas (1996) — Director
  15. Full Moon High (1981) — Director
  16. Bone (1972) — Director
  17. Perfect Strangers (1984) — Director
  18. The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977) — Director
  19. As Good As Dead (1995) — Director
  20. Deadly Illusion (1987) — Director
  21. Pick Me Up (2006) — Director
  22. See China and Die (1981) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Spies Like Us (1985) — Ace Tomato Agent
  2. In Search of Darkness (2019) — Self
  3. Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009) — Self
  4. American Grindhouse (2011) — Himself
  5. In Search of Darkness: Part II (2020) — Self
  6. Special Effects (1984) — Journalist (uncredited)
  7. Tales from the Script (2009) — Self
  8. BaadAsssss Cinema (2002) — Self
  9. King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2018) — Self
  10. 100 Scariest Movie Moments (2004) — Self
  11. Hollywood Rated 'R' (1997) — Self
  12. 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street (2015) — Self
  13. Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005) — Self
  14. The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird (2006) — Self
  15. Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business (2020) — Self
  16. Bette Davis: Larger Than Life (2017) — Self
  17. Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood (2006) — Self
  18. Hitchcocked! (2006) — Self
  19. Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted (2004) — Self
  20. Making of Phone Booth (2003) — Self
  21. Celling Out (2004) — Self
  22. Dialing Up "Cellular" (2004) — Self
  23. The Fear Is Real (2018) — Self
  24. Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films (2006) — Self
  25. Welcome to the Big House (2006) — Self
  26. Prohibition Opens the Floodgates (2006) — Self
  27. House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! (2013) — Self
  28. Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell (2011)
  29. Shooting the Police: Cops on Film (2006) — Self
  30. Masters of the Grind (2023) — Self