Roger Corman

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1926 age 0

   Born

2. 1974 age 48

   CreditThe Godfather Part II

3. 1975 age 49

   CreditDeath Race 2000producer

4. 1991 age 65

   CreditThe Silence of the Lambs

5. 1993 age 67

   CreditPhiladelphia

6. 1995 age 69

   CreditApollo 13

7. 2000 age 74

   CreditScream 3

8. 2003 age 77

   CreditLooney Tunes: Back in Action

9. 2004 age 78

   CreditThe Manchurian Candidate

10. 2008 age 82

    CreditDeath Raceexecutive producer

    CreditDeath Raceproducer

11. 2024 age 98

    Died

• TFTak Fujimoto4 titles
• JDJonathan Demme3 titles
• CNCharles Napier3 titles
• TWTracey Walter3 titles
• PLPaul Lazar3 titles
• HNHarry Northup3 titles
• THTom Hanks2 titles
• DCDean Cundey2 titles
• HSHoward Shore2 titles
• TLTed Levine2 titles

• Studied under

  • JCJeff Corey

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Taught.

• We were shooting a Ku Klux Klan parade led by Bill [William Shatner], and he went through the black part of town in a parade of cars carrying crosses with the hoods, and then they burned the flaming cross. We shot late at night; I said, "Cut, print!" and everybody went, "Yeah, we're out of here!" Guys raced to their cars, the grips threw the last couple of things in the trucks and we just drove straight north.

  Roger Corman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I come across as a very straightforward guy and that tends to surprise people [...] Clearly my subconscious mind must be some kind of boiling inferno.

  Roger Corman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• [Asked why he never made a film like the art house titles his company distributed: I]t's an economic situation. All of those films were made in Europe with government subsidies. Fellini, Bergman, Truffaut did not have the necessity of having to earn their money back and so they were free to do what they liked. In the US it's different. It's a money-making industry, so that's what you have to do

  Roger Corman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I don't know if I would say I'm an artist. [...] I would say that I'm a craftsman. I attempt to ply my trade in the best possible way. If occasionally something transcends the craft, then that's wonderful. [...] It doesn't happen very often.

  Roger Corman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My father was an engineer and I intended to follow in his footsteps, but movies became my real passion. Careful planning is important in engineering, so I used that experience to focus on film preproduction. With the low budgets I had, I couldn't afford to have the cast and crew waiting around for days on a 10-day picture while I figured out how and what to shoot.

  Roger Corman, CC BY-SA 4.0

• It's not so much watching them but understanding how they were made – the preparation and willingness to deviate when necessary especially if you're on a low budget, I also took every film I made seriously and did my best on every one.

  Roger Corman, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Languages

German, English

Years active

1954–2024

Education

Beverly Hills High School, Stanford University, Bachelor of Science