Roger Corman filmography explained

This is a list of films directed or produced by Roger Corman.

This is a partial list. Corman was famously prolific, both 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.

Film

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1955	Five Guns West
	Apache Woman
	Day the World Ended
1956	Swamp Women
	The Oklahoma Woman
	It Conquered the World
	Gunslinger			Original idea
1957	Naked Paradise
	Not of This Earth
	Attack of the Crab Monsters
	Rock All Night
	The Undead
	Teenage Doll
	Carnival Rock
	Sorority Girl
1958	The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
	War of the Satellites
	Machine-Gun Kelly
	She Gods of Shark Reef
	Teenage Caveman
1959	I Mobster
	A Bucket of Blood
	The Wasp Woman
1960	Ski Troop Attack
	House of Usher
	Last Woman on Earth
	The Little Shop of Horrors
1961	Atlas
	Creature from the Haunted Sea
	The Pit and the Pendulum
1962	The Premature Burial
	The Intruder
	Tales of Terror
	Tower of London
1963	The Young Racers
	The Raven
	The Terror
	The Haunted Palace
1964	The Masque of the Red Death
	The Secret Invasion
	The Tomb of Ligeia
1966	The Wild Angels
1967	A Time for Killing			Replaced by Phil Karlson
	The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
	The Trip
1968	The Wild Racers
1969	De Sade			Took over directing from Cy Endfield
				Credited as "Henry Neill"
1970	Bloody Mama
	Gas-s-s-s
1971	Von Richthofen and Brown
1978	Deathsport
1990	Frankenstein Unbound			Also screenwriter

Producer only

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1954	Monster from the Ocean Floor	Wyott Ordung
	The Fast and the Furious	Edward Sampson John Ireland	Also story writer, stunt driver and 2nd unit director
1958	Night of the Blood Beast	Bernard L. Kowalski
1963	Dementia 13	Francis Ford Coppola
1965	Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet	Curtis Harrington
1966	Blood Bath	Jack Hill Stephanie Rothman
1967	Devil's Angels	Daniel Haller
1968	Targets	Peter Bogdanovich
1970	The Dunwich Horror	Daniel Haller
1972	Boxcar Bertha	Martin Scorsese
1973	Sweet Kill	Curtis Hanson
1974	Caged Heat	Jonathan Demme
	Cockfighter	Monte Hellman
	The Arena	Steve Carver Joe D'Amato
1975	Death Race 2000	Paul Bartel
1976	Fighting Mad	Jonathan Demme
1977	Grand Theft Auto	Ron Howard
	I Never Promised You a Rose Garden	Anthony Page
1978	Piranha	Joe Dante
1979	Rock 'n' Roll High School	Allan Arkush
1980	Battle Beyond the Stars	Jimmy T. Murakami
	Galaxy of Terror	Bruce D. Clark
	Smokey Bites the Dust	Charles B. Griffith
1982	Forbidden World	Allan Holzman
1983	Space Raiders	Howard R. Cohen
	Suburbia	Penelope Spheeris	Also presenter
1986	Amazons	Alejandro Sessa
1987	Sweet Revenge	Mark Sobel
	Slumber Party Massacre II	Deborah Brock
	Munchies	Bettina Hirsch
1988	Andy Colby's Incredible Adventure	Deborah Brock
1989	Masque of the Red Death	Larry Brand
	The Terror Within	Thierry Notz
1990	Naked Obsession	Dan Golden
	Slumber Party Massacre III	Sally Mattison
1991	The Unborn	Rodman Flender
	Field of Fire
1992	Killer Instinct	David Tausik
	Munchie	Jim Wynorski
1993	Carnosaur	Adam Simon
	Dracula Rising	Fred Gallo
	The Skateboard Kid	Larry Swerdlove
1994	The Unborn 2	Rick Jacobson
	Angel of Destruction	Charles Philip Moore
	Hellfire	Rick Jacobson
	The Fantastic Four	Oley Sassone	Unreleased
1995	Carnosaur 2	Louis Morneau
1996		Jonathan Winfrey
1997	Eruption
1999	The Shepherd	Peter Hayman
2001	Raptor	Jim Wynorski
2002	Escape from Afghanistan	Timur Bekmambetov
2004	Dinocroc	Kevin O'Neill	Also presenter
2006	The Hunt for Eagle One	Brian Clyde
2007	Supergator	Kevin O'Neill
2012	Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader
2014	Roger Corman's Operation Rogue	Brian Clyde
2015	Fist of the Dragon	Antony Szeto
2017	Death Race 2050	G.J. Echternkamp

Executive producer

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1955	The Beast with a Million Eyes	David Kramarsky Lou Place Donald Myers	Uncredited; Also directed some scenes
1958	Hot Car Girl	Bernard L. Kowalski
	The Cry Baby Killer	Joe Addis
1959	Attack of the Giant Leeches	Bernard L. Kowalski
1960	Battle of Blood Island	Joel Rapp
1976	Eat My Dust!	Charles B. Griffith
1978	Avalanche	Corey Allen
1982	Sorceress	Jack Hill	Hill credited as Brian Stuart
1983	Deathstalker	James Sbardellati	Sbardellati credited as John Watson
1985	Barbarian Queen	Héctor Olivera
1987	Deathstalker II	Jim Wynorski
1995	Dillinger and Capone	Jon Purdy
2008	Death Race	Paul W. S. Anderson
2011	Death Race 2	Roel Reiné
2013
2015	Fist of the Dragon
2018		Don Michael Paul

TV movies

Producer

Year	Title	Director
1995	Hellfire	David Tausik
2006	Saurian	John Carl Buechler
2010	Sharktopus	Declan O'Brien
2015	Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda	Kevin O'Neill
	Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf

Executive producer

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1978	Outside Chance	Michael Miller
1980	The Georgia Peaches	Daniel Haller
1994	Cheyenne Warrior	Mark Griffiths
1995	Suspect Device	Rick Jacobson	Part of the Roger Corman Presents
	The Alien Within	Scott P. Levy
	Sawbones	Catherine Cyran
	Virtual Seduction	Paul Ziller
	Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats	Dan Golden
	The Wasp Woman	Jim Wynorski
	A Bucket of Blood	Michael James McDonald
	Piranha	Scott P. Levy
	Terminal Virus	Dan Golden
1996	Subliminal Seduction	Andrew Stevens
	Inhumanoid	Victoria Muspratt
	Alien Avengers	Lev L. Spiro
	The Unspeakable	Howard McCain
	Last Exit to Earth	Katt Shea	Part of the Roger Corman Presents
	Humanoids from the Deep	Jeff Yonis
1997	Alien Avengers II	Dave Payne
1999	Velocity	Harvey Berman
2001	Avalanche Alley	Paul Ziller
2005	Asphalt Wars	Henry Crum
	Bloodfist 2050	Cirio H. Santiago
2007	Cry of the Winged Serpent	Jim Wynorski
2010	Dinoshark	Kevin O'Neill
	Dinocroc vs. Supergator	Jim Wynorski
2011	Camel Spiders
2012	Piranhaconda

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	Monster from the Ocean Floor	Tommy	Uncredited
	The Fast and the Furious	Roadblock State Trooper
1957	Naked Paradise	Office Worker
1958	War of the Satellites	Ground Control	Uncredited
	Hot Car Girl	Cop Who Finds Note
	The Cry Baby Killer	Joe - TV Truck Man
1959	The Wasp Woman	Doctor in the Hospital
1960	Ski Troop Attack	German Soldier Entering Cabin
1961	Atlas	Greek soldier
1974	The Godfather Part II	Senator #2
1976	Cannonball!	District Attorney
1981	The Howling	Man in Phone Booth	Uncredited
1984	Swing Shift	Mr. MacBride
1991	The Silence of the Lambs	F.B.I. Director Hayden Burke
1993	Body Bags	Dr. Bregman	Segment "Eye"
	Philadelphia	Mr. Roger Laird
1995	Apollo 13	Congressman
2000	Scream 3	Studio Executive
2003		Hollywood Director
2009	Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue	Himself	Documentary

Unmade and unreleased films

• High Steel - a "steeplejack story" (1955)^[1]
• Cobra - a film to be shot in India in Cinemascope (1955)^[1] with Gaby Bruyère^[2]
• Fortress Beneath the Sea - shot off Baja California (1955)^[1]
• The Kickback by John Robinson and Frank Burt^[3]
• an adaptation of She by H. Rider Haggard for American International Pictures (late 1950s) - never made, although Corman got to travel overseas, scouting locations^[4]
• Devil on Horseback - a Western based on the Brownsville Raid based on a script by Charles B. Griffith (1955)^[5]
• The Stake - a Western by George Leffert to star Dana Andrews^[6]
• Part Time Mother - from a script by Charles B. Griffith^[7]
• The Haunted Dream (circa 1961) - a biopic of Edgar Allan Poe^[8]
• 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^[9]
• a biopic on Robert E. Lee for United Artists (early 1960s)^[10]
• an 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^[11]
• an adaptation of Kafka's The Penal Colony for Columbia, to be shot on the set for King Rat (1965)^[12]
• a script by novelist Richard Yates about the Battle of Iwo Jima (circa 1965)^[13]
• The Long Ride Home - a Western based on a script by Robert Towne (circa 1965)^[13]
• Couples - based on a novel by John Updike for United Artists (circa 1971)^[14]
• The Fantastic Four - a film produced by Corman, but never released (1993–94)

Documentary appearances

• Some Nudity Required (1998)
• Popatopolis (2009)

References

Bibliography

• Corman, Roger and Jim Jerome, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never lost a Dime. New York: Muller, 1990. .

External links

• Roger Corman at Allmovie

Notes and References

1. "Movieland events:Paul Schofield gets Huston attention."Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1955, p. 21.
2. Hopper, Hedda. "Film of life at new aviation academy set for Bob Taylor." Chicago Daily Tribune, March 16, 1955, p. b6.
3. "Corman takes option to film 'Kickback'."Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1955, p. d5.
4. Scheuer, Philip K. "Shocker pioneers tell how to make monsters: Want to make a monster? Experts tell how it's done," Los Angeles Times, September 21, 1958, p. E1.
5. Hopper, Hedda. "Story of ex-fighter to be dramatic film." Los Angeles Times, July 12, 1955, p. 12.
6. Schallert, Edwin. "Drama: Gable, Turner costar deal foreseen; Andrews indicated for 'Stake'." Los Angeles Times, April 24, 1956, p. 21.
7. Genet's 'Deathwatch' to be given locally.'Los Angeles Times, December 23, 1959, p. 14.
8. Scheuer, Philip K. "Warners will film Kennedy navy saga: Exploit titled 'PT Boat 109'; Paul Newman, Ritt Lo repeat." Los Angeles Times, March 9, 1961, p. B11.
9. Corman 1990, p. 108.
10. Corman 1990, p. 170.
11. Corman 1990, p. 124.
12. Corman 1990, pp. 124–125.
13. Corman 1990, p. 125.
14. Corman 1990, pp. 180–181.