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
personal Info.
Known for
Directing
Known Credit
1.0525
Gender
Male
Birthday
1941-07-15
Place of Birth
Kingston, New York, USA
Also Known as
Laurence Robert Cohen
Lawrence George Cohen
Lawrence Cohen
Known For
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Tales from the Script
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
Hitchcocked!
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Spies Like Us
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
BaadAsssss Cinema
American Grindhouse
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Special Effects
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue