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