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Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen

Known for: Directing

Born 15/07/1941
Died 2019-03-23
Place of birth Kingston, New York, USA

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

Spies Like Us Film ★ 6,2

Spies Like Us

Ace Tomato Agent

1985

100 Scariest Movie Moments Series ★ 7,9

100 Scariest Movie Moments

Self

2004

Celling Out Film ★ 10,0

Celling Out

Self

2004

Special Effects Film ★ 4,8

Special Effects

Journalist (uncredited)

1984

Tales from the Script Film ★ 6,6

Tales from the Script

Self

2009

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird Film ★ 7,8

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

Self

2006

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen Film ★ 6,4

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

Self

2018

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That Film ★ 7,0

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Self

2005

In Search of Darkness: Part II Film ★ 7,7

In Search of Darkness: Part II

Self

2020

In Search of Darkness Film ★ 7,5

In Search of Darkness

Self

2019

American Grindhouse Film ★ 6,8

American Grindhouse

Himself

2011

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue Film ★ 6,5

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

Self

2009

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street Film ★ 7,8

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

Self

2015

BaadAsssss Cinema Film ★ 6,0

BaadAsssss Cinema

Self

2002

Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business Film ★ 3,0

Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

Self

2020

Dialing Up "Cellular" Film ★ 9,0

Dialing Up "Cellular"

Self

2004

Masters of the Grind Film

Masters of the Grind

Self

2023

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life Film ★ 6,0

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Self

2017

Prohibition Opens the Floodgates Film

Prohibition Opens the Floodgates

Self

2006

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films Film

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

Self

2006

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! Film

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

Self

2013

Film

The Fear Is Real

Self

2018

Film ★ 8,0

Making of Phone Booth

Self

2003

Shooting the Police: Cops on Film Film

Shooting the Police: Cops on Film

Self

2006

Hitchcocked! Film ★ 6,0

Hitchcocked!

Self

2006

Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted Film ★ 10,0

Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

Self

2004

Film

Welcome to the Big House

Self

2006

Hollywood Rated 'R' Film ★ 5,3

Hollywood Rated 'R'

Self

1997

Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood Film ★ 4,0

Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood

Self

2006

Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell Film

Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell

2011