
Larry Cohen
Directing
Born: 1941-07-15 · Kingston, New York, USA
Died: 2019-03-23
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
🎬 Movies (20)

Masters of the Grind
2023
Self

In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020
Self

Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
2020
Self

In Search of Darkness
2019
Self
The Fear Is Real
2018
Self

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018
Self

Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017
Self

42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015
Self

House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013
Self

Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011

American Grindhouse
2011
Himself

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009
Self

Tales from the Script
2009
Self

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006
Self
Welcome to the Big House
2006
Self

Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
2006
Self

Hitchcocked!
2006
Self

Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006
Self

Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006
Self
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
2006
Self
