Larry Cohen
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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Movies (94)
Masters of the Grind
2023 · Self
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020 · Self
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
2020 · Self
In Search of Darkness
2019 · Self
The Fear Is Real
2018 · Self
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018 · Self
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017 · Self
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015 · Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013 · Self
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011
American Grindhouse
2011 · Himself
Messages Deleted
2010 · Writer
It's Alive
2009 · Screenplay, Characters
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009 · Self
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
2009 · Writer
Tales from the Script
2009 · Self
Connected
2008 · Original Story
Captivity
2007 · Writer
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006 · Self
Welcome to the Big House
2006 · Self
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
2006 · Self
Hitchcocked!
2006 · Self
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006 · Self
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006 · Self
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
2006 · Self
Pick Me Up
2006 · Director
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005 · Self
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
2004 · Self
Cellular
2004 · Story
Celling Out
2004 · Self
Dialing Up "Cellular"
2004 · Self
Making of Phone Booth
2003 · Self
Phone Booth
2003 · Screenplay
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002 · Self
Misbegotten
1998 · Screenplay
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
1998 · Teleplay, Story
Hollywood Rated 'R'
1997 · Self
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Heatwave
1997 · Teleplay
The Ex
1996 · Screenplay
Invasion of Privacy
1996 · Writer
Uncle Sam
1996 · Writer
Original Gangstas
1996 · Director
Ed McBain's 87th Precinct: Ice
1996 · Teleplay
The Invaders
1995 · Characters
The Expert
1995 · Writer
As Good As Dead
1995 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Tourist
1995 · Original Story
Body Snatchers
1993 · Screenstory
Guilty as Sin
1993 · Writer
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
1992 · Writer, Co-Producer
Maniac Cop 2
1990 · Writer, Producer
The Ambulance
1990 · Writer, Director
Wicked Stepmother
1989 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
1988 · Writer
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
1988 · Writer
Maniac Cop
1988 · Producer, Writer
Deadly Illusion
1987 · Director, Writer
Best Seller
1987 · Writer
A Return to Salem's Lot
1987 · Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay, Story
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
1987 · Director, Screenplay, Characters, Executive Producer
Spies Like Us
1985 · Ace Tomato Agent
The Stuff
1985 · Director, Writer, Executive Producer
Special Effects
1984 · Journalist (uncredited), Director, Writer
Perfect Strangers
1984 · Director, Writer
Scandalous
1984 · Story
Women of San Quentin
1983 · Story
Q
1982 · Director, Writer, Producer
I, the Jury
1982 · Screenplay
Full Moon High
1981 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
See China and Die
1981 · Director, Writer
The American Success Company
1980 · Screenplay
It Lives Again
1978 · Director, Writer, Producer, Characters
Sparrow
1978 · Creator
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
1978 · Writer
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
1977 · Director, Writer, Producer
Calling Doctor Storm, M.D.
1977 · Writer
God Told Me To
1976 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Man on the Outside
1975 · Writer
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974 · Production Executive
It's Alive
1974 · Director, Writer, Producer
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
1974 · Story
Hell Up In Harlem
1973 · Director, Screenplay, Producer
Black Caesar
1973 · Director, Writer, Producer
Bone
1972 · Director, Writer, Producer
The Manipulator
1971 · Set Designer
In Broad Daylight
1971 · Writer
El Condor
1970 · Screenplay
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
1969 · Story, Screenplay
Scream Baby Scream
1969 · Screenplay, Story
The Legend of Custer
1968 · Idea
I Deal in Danger
1966 · Writer
Return of the Seven
1966 · Screenplay
Maniac Cop
· Original Film Writer
Delusion
· Producer, Writer
TV shows (12)
Masters of Horror
2005 · Director
100 Scariest Movie Moments
2004 · Self
The Invaders
1995 · Creator
NYPD Blue
1993 · Writer
Cool Million
1972 · Writer, Story, Creator
Columbo
1971 · Story
Coronet Blue
1967 · Creator
The Invaders
1967 · Creator
Branded
1965 · Creator
Espionage
1963 · Writer
The Fugitive
1963 · Story, Writer
The Defenders
1961 · Writer