Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen

7/15/1941 – 3/23/2019Kingston, 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 (30 titles)

Masters of the GrindMovie

Masters of the Grind

Self · 2023

In Search of Darkness: Part II7.7Movie

In Search of Darkness: Part II

Self · 2020

Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business3.0Movie

Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

Self · 2020

In Search of Darkness7.6Movie

In Search of Darkness

Self · 2019

Movie

The Fear Is Real

Self · 2018

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen6.4Movie

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

Self · 2018

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life6.0Movie

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

Self · 2017

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street7.8Movie

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

Self · 2015

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

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

Self · 2013

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

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

2011

American Grindhouse6.8Movie

American Grindhouse

Himself · 2011

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue6.6Movie

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

Self · 2009

Tales from the Script6.5Movie

Tales from the Script

Self · 2009

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird7.8Movie

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

Self · 2006

Movie

Welcome to the Big House

Self · 2006

Prohibition Opens the FloodgatesMovie

Prohibition Opens the Floodgates

Self · 2006

Hitchcocked!6.0Movie

Hitchcocked!

Self · 2006

Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood4.0Movie

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

Self · 2006

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster FilmsMovie

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

Self · 2006

Shooting the Police: Cops on FilmMovie

Shooting the Police: Cops on Film

Self · 2006

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That7.0Movie

Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

Self · 2005

Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted10.0Movie

Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

Self · 2004

100 Scariest Movie Moments7.9Show

100 Scariest Movie Moments

Self · 2004

Celling Out10.0Movie

Celling Out

Self · 2004

Dialing Up "Cellular"9.0Movie

Dialing Up "Cellular"

Self · 2004

8.0Movie

Making of Phone Booth

Self · 2003

BaadAsssss Cinema6.0Movie

BaadAsssss Cinema

Self · 2002

Hollywood Rated 'R'5.3Movie

Hollywood Rated 'R'

Self · 1997

Spies Like Us6.2Movie

Spies Like Us

Ace Tomato Agent · 1985

Special Effects4.8Movie

Special Effects

Journalist (uncredited) · 1984