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).
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Acting History
2023
Masters of the Grind as Self
2020In Search of Darkness: Part II as Self
2020Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business as Self
2019In Search of Darkness as Self
2018The Fear is Real as Self
2018King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen as Self
2017Bette Davis: Larger Than Life as Self
201542nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street as Himself
2013House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! as Self
2011Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011American Grindhouse as Himself
2009Nightmares in Red, White and Blue as Self
2009Tales from the Script as Self
2006The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird as Self
2006Prohibition Opens the Floodgates as Self
2006Welcome to the Big House as Self
2006Hitchcocked! as Self
2006Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films as Self
2006Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood as Self
2006Shooting the Police: Cops on Film as Self
2005Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
2004Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted as Self
2004100 Scariest Movie Moments as Self
2003Making of Phone Booth as Self
2002BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
1997Hollywood Rated 'R' as Self
1985Spies Like Us as Ace Tomato Agent
1984Special Effects as Journalist (uncredited)