Larry Cohen

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

Died: 2019-03-23

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​

Filmography

• Masters of Horror (2005)
• Spies Like Us (1985)
• The Stuff (1985)
• The Ambulance (1990)
• Black Caesar (1973)
• It Lives Again (1978)
• It's Alive (1974)
• A Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
• Wicked Stepmother (1989)
• See China and Die (1981)
• Full Moon High (1981)
• It's Alive III: Island of the Alive (1987)
• Original Gangstas (1996)
• Hell Up In Harlem (1973)
• God Told Me To (1976)
• Special Effects (1984)
• Special Effects (1984)
• American Grindhouse (2011)
• The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977)
• Deadly Illusion (1987)
• Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell (2011)