Roger Corman, the B-movie director and producer who launched the careers of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson, has died at age 98.
, who directed and produced countless B-movies and championed future industry stalwarts Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson, died at his home in Santa Monica, California on May 9,
“His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that,’” the family said in a statement to the outlet. For nearly five decades, he dominated the B-movie market, with films that ranged from his early work in the Fifties, which included Westerns, such asHe often worked with Sam Arkoff of American Intl. Pictures, who financed most of his early work. Together, they worked on a series of horror films focusing on Edgar Allan Poe, including 1960’s
. These films brought renewed attention to actors such as Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Basil Rathbone and Peter Lorre. It was around this time that he began to work with then-unknowns such as Ellen Burstyn, Nicholson, and De Niro, as well as screenwriters including Robert Towne, and directors who would eventually become household names, such as Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Joe Dante, and Peter Bogdanovich.Hear the Journey Tune Steve Perry Rerecorded With Steve Lukather's SonIn 2009, he received an honorary Academy Award for his life’s achievements. He produced more than 300 films, and directed 50 titles.
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