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Biography Movies Watch Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure ' title='Biography Movies Watch Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure ' />American independent filmproducer, director, screenwriter, entertainment businessman, and actor. He has been called The Pope of Pop Cinema and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Much of Cormans work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe. Admired by members of the French New Wave and Cahiers du cinma, in 1. Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinmathque Franaise,5 as well as the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art. He was the co founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a long time member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2. Honorary Academy Award. Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola,7Ron Howard,8Martin Scorsese,9Jonathan Demme1. James Cameron,1. New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1. He also helped to launch the careers of actors Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson. Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including The Silence of the Lambs, The Godfather Part II, Apollo 1. The Manchurian Candidate and Philadelphia. A documentary about Cormans life and career entitled Cormans World Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2. The films TV rights were picked up by A E Indie. Films after a well received screening at Sundance. Early lifeeditCorman was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Anne ne High and William Corman, an engineer. His younger brother, Eugene Harold Gene Corman, has also produced numerous films, sometimes in collaboration with Roger. Corman and his brother were baptized in their mothers Catholic faith. Corman went to Beverly Hills High School and then to Stanford University to study Industrial Engineering. While at Stanford, Corman realised he did not want to be an engineer. He enlisted in the V 1. Navy College Training Program with six months of study to complete. He served in the navy from 1. He returned to Stanford to finish his degree, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering in 1. While at Stanford University, Roger Corman was initiated in the fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon. In 1. 94. 8, he worked briefly at U. S. Electrical Motors on Slauson Avenue in Los Angeles, but his career in engineering lasted only four days he began work on Monday and quit on Thursday, telling his boss Ive made a terrible mistake. His brother Gene was already working in the film industry as an agent and Roger decided to go into filmmaking instead. Early film careereditCorman found work at 2. Century Fox initially in the mail room. He worked his way up to a story reader. The one property that he liked the most and provided ideas for was filmed as The Gunfighter with Gregory Peck. When Corman received no credit at all he left Fox and decided he would work in film by himself. Under the GI Bill, Corman studied English Literature at Oxford University and lived in Paris for a time. He then returned to Los Angeles and tried to re establish himself in the film industry. He did various jobs, including television stage hand at KLAC and a messenger at Fox. He worked as an assistant to agent Dick Hyland, a literary agent. Highway DragneteditCorman wrote a script in his spare time and sold it to William Broidy at Allied Artists for 2,0. Dick thought it was funny and let me pay myself a commission, said Corman. Originally called House in the Sea it was retitled as Highway Dragnet 1. Richard Conte and Joan Bennett. Corman also worked as associate producer on the film for nothing, just for the experience. ProducereditCorman used his script fee and personal contacts to raise 1. The Monster From the Ocean Floor 1. It was produced by Cormans own company, Palo Alto, and released by Robert L. Lippert. The film did well enough to encourage Corman to produce another film, the racing car thriller, The Fast and the Furious 1. John Ireland and co starring Dorothy Malone. Corman sold the movie to a new independent company, the American Releasing Company, run by James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff. Although Corman had a number of offers for the film from Republic and Columbia, he elected to go with ARC because they undertook to advance money to enable him to make two more movies. DirectoreditCormans second film for ARC was one he decided to direct, Five Guns West 1. Western, made in colour for around 6. Malone and John Lund. The script was written by Robert Wright Campbell, who would work with Corman on several more occasions. Corman announced he would make four more projects for ARC High Steel, Cobra, Fortress Beneath the Sea, and an untitled film from Campbell. Instead Corman did some uncredited directing on The Beast with a Million Eyes 1. Western, Apache Woman 1. Lloyd Bridges, written by Lou Rusoff. Rusoff and Corman reunited on Day the World Ended 1. Corman was to make The Devil on Horseback by Charles B. Griffith about the Brownsville Raid2. The Woolner Brothers, Louisiana drive in owners, financed Cormans, Swamp Women 1. He returned to ARC for two Westerns, The Oklahoma Woman 1. Gunslinger 1. 95. Ireland Gunslinger was co written by Griffith, who would become a crucial collaborator for Corman over the next five years. He bought a script from Curtis Harrington, The Girl from Beneath the Sea. Harrington would make it for Corman years later as Night Tide 1. American International Pictures and Allied ArtistseditARC changed their name to American International Pictures. Corman was established as their leading filmmaker. They financed Cormans next film as director, the science fiction story, It Conquered the World 1. Griffith, was a follow up to The Day the World Ended. Dvd Movie Bionicle: Mask Of Light here. It was a big hit. He optioned a TV play The Stake and hoped to get Dana Andrews to star. It was never made. Instead Walter Mirisch of Allied Artists hired Corman to make The Undead 1. The Search for Bridey Murphy. Griffith wrote the script. June Corman made a science fiction film for Allied Artists, Not of this Earth 1. Griffith. In August 1. AIP financed a Corman heist movie shot in Hawaii, Naked Paradise 1. Griffith. Corman shot it back to back with a movie made with his own money, She Gods of Shark Reef 1. Corman wound up selling the movie to AIP. Corman and Griffith reunited in Attack of the Crab Monsters 1. Allied, which wound up being one of his most successful early films. For his own production company, Corman made a rock and roll quickle, Carnival Rock 1. Howco. Rock All Night 1. Griffith expanded from a TV play, The Little Guy, with musical acts inserted. He was meant to make RocknRoll Girl for AIP in December 1. Corman made two teen girl noirs, Teenage Doll 1. Woolner Brothers and Sorority Girl 1. Susan Cabot for AIP. For AIP he made The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent 1. August 1. 95. 7. 3. He was meant to follow this with Teenage Jungle by Tony Miller. The success of Not of this Earth and Crab Monsters led to Allied offering Corman a four picture deal for 1. Machine Gun Kelly and producingeditCorman received his first serious critical praise for Machine Gun Kelly 1. AIP biopic of the famous gangster, which gave Charles Bronson his first leading role and co starred Cabot. Campbell wrote the script.