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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).

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Acting (23 movies)

4.6

Special Effects

1984

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Hollywood Rated 'R'

1997

6.6

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

2009

6.5

Tales from the Script

2009

5.9

BaadAsssss Cinema

2002

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Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood

2006

6.7

American Grindhouse

2011

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Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films

2006

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Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That

2005

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Prohibition Opens the Floodgates

2006

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42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street

2015

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Hitchcocked!

2006

6.3

King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen

2018

6.2

Spies Like Us

1985

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Bette Davis: Larger Than Life

2017

7.6

In Search of Darkness

2019

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The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird

2006

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House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!

2013

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Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted

2004

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Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell

2011

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Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business

2020

7.7

In Search of Darkness: Part II

2020

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Masters of the Grind

2023

Directing (21 movies)

Title	Year	Job
Return of the Seven	1966	Screenplay
I Deal In Danger	1966	Writer
Scream Baby Scream	1969	Screenplay
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting	1969	Screenplay
El Condor	1970	Screenplay
In Broad Daylight	1971	Writer
Bone	1972	Writer
Bone	1972	Producer
Black Caesar	1973	Producer
Black Caesar	1973	Writer
Hell Up In Harlem	1973	Screenplay
Hell Up In Harlem	1973	Producer
It's Alive	1974	Writer
It's Alive	1974	Producer
Man on the Outside	1975	Writer
God Told Me To	1976	Screenplay
God Told Me To	1976	Producer
Calling Doctor Storm, M.D.	1977	Writer
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	1977	Writer
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover	1977	Producer
The Case of the Baltimore Girls	1978	Writer
It Lives Again	1978	Producer
It Lives Again	1978	Writer
The American Success Company	1980	Screenplay
See China and Die	1981	Writer
Full Moon High	1981	Screenplay
Full Moon High	1981	Producer
I, the Jury	1982	Screenplay
Q	1982	Writer
Q	1982	Producer
Perfect Strangers	1984	Writer
Special Effects	1984	Writer
The Stuff	1985	Writer
The Stuff	1985	Executive Producer
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive	1987	Screenplay
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive	1987	Executive Producer
A Return to Salem's Lot	1987	Executive Producer
A Return to Salem's Lot	1987	Screenplay
Best Seller	1987	Writer
Deadly Illusion	1987	Writer
Maniac Cop	1988	Producer
Maniac Cop	1988	Writer
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge	1988	Writer
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge	1988	Writer
Wicked Stepmother	1989	Writer
Wicked Stepmother	1989	Executive Producer
The Ambulance	1990	Writer
Maniac Cop 2	1990	Writer
Maniac Cop 2	1990	Producer
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence	1992	Writer
Guilty as Sin	1993	Writer
As Good As Dead	1995	Writer
As Good As Dead	1995	Producer
The Expert	1995	Writer
Uncle Sam	1996	Writer
Invasion of Privacy	1996	Writer
The Ex	1996	Screenplay
Misbegotten	1998	Screenplay
Phone Booth	2003	Screenplay
Captivity	2007	Writer
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger	2009	Writer
It's Alive	2009	Screenplay
Messages Deleted	2010	Writer