Larry Cohen
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
Known For
Spies Like Us
100 Scariest Movie Moments
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
In Search of Darkness: Part II
Tales from the Script
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
In Search of Darkness
American Grindhouse
All Movies (29)
- Masters of the Grind2023 · as Self
- In Search of Darkness: Part II2020 · as Self
- Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business2020 · as Self
- In Search of Darkness2019 · as Self
- The Fear Is Real2018 · as Self
- King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen2018 · as Self
- Bette Davis: Larger Than Life2017 · as Self
- 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street2015 · as Self
- House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!2013 · as Self
- Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell2011
- American Grindhouse2011 · as Himself
- Nightmares in Red, White and Blue2009 · as Self
- Tales from the Script2009 · as Self
- The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird2006 · as Self
- Welcome to the Big House2006 · as Self
- Prohibition Opens the Floodgates2006 · as Self
- Hitchcocked!2006 · as Self
- Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood2006 · as Self
- Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films2006 · as Self
- Shooting the Police: Cops on Film2006 · as Self
- Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That2005 · as Self
- Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted2004 · as Self
- Celling Out2004 · as Self
- Dialing Up "Cellular"2004 · as Self
- Making of Phone Booth2003 · as Self
- BaadAsssss Cinema2002 · as Self
- Hollywood Rated 'R'1997 · as Self
- Spies Like Us1985 · as Ace Tomato Agent
- Special Effects1984 · as Journalist (uncredited)
All TV Shows (1)
- 100 Scariest Movie Moments2004 · as Self