This is a list of films directed or produced by

Roger Corman Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works t ...

. This is a partial list. Corman is famously prolific, both in his

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years and afterward. The

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credits Corman with 55 directed films and some 385 produced films from 1954 through 2008, many as un-credited producer or executive producer (consistent with his role as head of his own

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from 1970 through 1983). Corman also has significant credits as writer and actor.

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Acting roles

Unmade and unreleased films

*''High Steel'' - a "steeplejack story" (1955)"Movieland events:Paul Schofield gets Huston attention." ''Los Angeles Times'', February 9, 1955, p. 21. *''Cobra'' - a film to be shot in India in Cinemascope (1955) with Gaby Bruyère *''Fortress Beneath the Sea'' - shot off Baja California (1955) *''The Kickback'' by John Robinson and Frank Burt *an adaptation of ''She'' by H. Rider Haggard for

(late 1950s) - never made, although Corman got to travel overseas, scouting locations *''Devil on Horseback'' - a Western based on the Brownsville Raid based on a script by Charles B. Griffith (1955) *''The Stake'' - a Western by George Leffert to star

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*''Part Time Mother'' - from a script by Charles B. Griffith *''The Haunted Dream'' (circa 1961) - a biopic of

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*''I Flew a Spy Plane Over Russia'' (early 1960s) - based on the

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incident with a script written by

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that Corman claims was not finished in time *a biopic on Robert E. Lee for United Artists (early 1960s) *an adaptation of ''

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ''A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'' is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A ''Künstlerroman'' written in a modernist style, it traces the religious and intellectual awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, Joyce's fictional alter ...

'' (mid-1960s) based on a script by Hugh Leonard for Columbia, which they did not want to make *an adaptation of Kafka's ''The Penal Colony'' for Columbia, to be shot on the set for ''King Rat'' (1965) *a script by novelist Richard Yates about the Battle of Iwo Jima (circa 1965)Corman 1990, p. 125. *''The Long Ride Home'' - a Western based on a script by Robert Towne (circa 1965) *''Couples'' - based on a novel by John Updike for

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(circa 1971)Corman 1990, pp. 180–181. *''

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'' - a film produced by Corman, but never released (1993–94)

References

Citations

Bibliography

* Corman, Roger and Jim Jerome, ''How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never lost a Dime''. New York: Muller, 1990. .

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