Larry Cohen

Personal Info

Birthday

July 15, 1941

Day of Death

2019-03-24

(77 years old)

Place of Birth

Kingston, New York, USA

Also Known As

Laurence Robert Cohen

Lawrence George Cohen

Lawrence Cohen

Larry 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), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Known For

Spies Like Us

Special Effects

Filmography

2023
Masters of the Grind
as Self
2020
In Search of Darkness: Part II
as Self
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
as Self
2019
In Search of Darkness
as Self
2018
The Fear is Real
as Self
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
as Self
2017
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
as Self
2015
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
as Himself
2013
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
as Self
2011
American Grindhouse
as Himself
2009
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
as Self
Tales from the Script
as Self
2006
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
as Self
Welcome to the Big House
as Self
Hitchcocked!
as Self
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
as Self
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
as Self
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
as Self
2005
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
2004
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
as Self
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
1997
Hollywood Rated 'R'
as Self
1985
Spies Like Us
as Ace Tomato Agent
1984
Special Effects
as Journalist (uncredited)