What is Roger Corman?
[[File:Roger Corman Odessa International Film Festival (cropped).jpg|thumb|Corman in 2013]] '''Roger William Corman''' (April 5, 1926 &ndash; May 9, 2024) was an American movie director, producer, and actor. He was born in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]]. He made dozens of low-budget [[B-movie]]s such as ''[[Swamp Women]]'' (1955), ''[[The Little Shop of Horrors]]'' (1960), and ''[[The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent]]''. He was best known for six movies based on the [[short story|short stories]] of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] that include ''[[House of Usher]]'' (1960), ''[[The Pit and the Pendulum]]'' (1961), and ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (movie)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'' (1964). Corman died at his home in [[Santa Monica, California]] on May 9, 2024 at the age of 98.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Gray |first=Richard Natale,Tim |last2=Natale |first2=Richard |last3=Gray |first3=Tim |date=May 12, 2024 |title=Roger Corman, Pioneering Independent Producer and King of B Movies, Dies at 98 |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/roger-corman-dead-producer-independent-b-movie-1235999591/ |access-date=May 12, 2024 |magazine=Variety}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Corman, Roger}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:Academy Award Honorary Award winners]] [[Category:Alumni of the University of Oxford]] [[Category:American Roman Catholics]] [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:American television actors]] [[Category:American screenwriters]] [[Category:Cult movies]] [[Category:Movie directors from Los Angeles]] [[Category:Movie directors from Michigan]] [[Category:Movie producers from Michigan]] [[Category:People from Detroit]] [[Category:Stanford University alumni]] [[Category:2024 deaths]] {{US-biography-stub}}