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Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen

Born: 1941-07-15 • Kingston, New York, USA

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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Filmography
Masters of the Grind poster
Masters of the Grind
2023 • Self
In Search of Darkness: Part II poster
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020 • Self
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business poster
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
2020 • Self
In Search of Darkness poster
In Search of Darkness
2019 • Self
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The Fear is Real
2018 • Self
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen poster
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018 • Self
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life poster
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017 • Self
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street poster
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015 • Himself
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! poster
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013 • Self
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell poster
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011
American Grindhouse poster
American Grindhouse
2011 • Himself
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue poster
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009 • Self
Tales from the Script poster
Tales from the Script
2009 • Self
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird poster
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006 • Self
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Welcome to the Big House
2006 • Self
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates poster
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
2006 • Self
Hitchcocked! poster
Hitchcocked!
2006 • Self
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood poster
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006 • Self
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films poster
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006 • Self
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Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
2006 • Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That poster
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005 • Self
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted poster
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004 • Self
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Celling Out
2004 • Self
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Making of Phone Booth
2003 • Self
BaadAsssss Cinema poster
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 • Self
Hollywood Rated 'R' poster
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997 • Self
Spies Like Us poster
Spies Like Us
1985 • Ace Tomato Agent
Special Effects poster
Special Effects
1984 • Journalist (uncredited)