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Larry Cohen

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77 Years Old

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​

Born

Kingston, New York, USA on 15th July 1941

Died

24th March 2019

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Spies Like Us Image
Spies Like Us
Ace Tomato Agent
100 Scariest Movie Moments Image
100 Scariest Movie Moments
Self
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen Image
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
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In Search of Darkness: Part II Image
In Search of Darkness: Part II
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In Search of Darkness Image
In Search of Darkness
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Tales from the Script Image
Tales from the Script
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Nightmares in Red, White and Blue Image
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
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Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business Image
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
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American Grindhouse Image
American Grindhouse
Himself
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood Image
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
Self
Special Effects Image
Special Effects
Journalist (uncredited)
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films Image
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
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The Fear is Real
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BaadAsssss Cinema Image
BaadAsssss Cinema
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Hollywood Rated 'R' Image
Hollywood Rated 'R'
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Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted Image
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That Image
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
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Masters of the Grind Image
Masters of the Grind
Self
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird Image
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
Self
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street Image
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
Himself
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! Image
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
Self
Hitchcocked! Image
Hitchcocked!
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Prohibition Opens the Floodgates Image
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
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Bette Davis: Larger Than Life Image
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
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Welcome to the Big House
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Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Self
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell Image
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell