Larry Cohen
Birthday
1941/07/15
Day of death
2019/03/24 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Kingston, New York, USA
Also know as
Laurence Robert Cohen, Lawrence George Cohen, Lawrence 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...Read more
Acting
(1984) Special Effects
as Journalist (uncredited)
(1997) Hollywood Rated 'R'
as Self
(2018) The Fear is Real
as Self
(2009) Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
as Self
(2009) Tales from the Script
as Self
(2002) BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
(2006) Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
as Self
(2011) American Grindhouse
as Himself
(2006) Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
as Self
(2005) Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
(2006) Welcome to the Big House
as Self
(2006) Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
as Self
(2015) 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
as Himself
(2006) Hitchcocked!
as Self
(2018) King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
as Self
(1985) Spies Like Us
as Ace Tomato Agent
(2017) Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
as Self
(2019) In Search of Darkness
as Self
(2006) The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self
(2013) House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
as Self
(2004) Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
as Self
(2011) Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
as ---
(2020) Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
as Self
(2020) In Search of Darkness: Part II
as Self
(2006) Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
as Self
(2023) Masters of the Grind
as Self
(2004) 100 Scariest Movie Moments
as Self