Larry Cohen
Born
15 July 1941 (84)
Place of Birth
Kingston, New York, USA
Also known as
Laurence Robert Cohen, Lawrence George 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), Ce...
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 (40)
Masters of the Grind
2023
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
2020
In Search of Darkness
2019
The Fear is Real
2018
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011
American Grindhouse
2011
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009
Tales from the Script
2009
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
Welcome to the Big House
2006
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
2006
Hitchcocked!
2006
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
2006
Pick Me Up
2006
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004
Celling Out
2004
Making of Phone Booth
2003
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997
Original Gangstas
1996
As Good As Dead
1995
The Ambulance
1990
Wicked Stepmother
1989
Deadly Illusion
1987
A Return to Salem's Lot
1987
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
1987
Spies Like Us
1985
The Stuff
1985
Special Effects
1984
Perfect Strangers
1984
Q
1982
Full Moon High
1981