
Alice Cooper
Biography
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock.
Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973.
Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal.
He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Acting (139 movies)

The Perfect Scary Movie
2005

The History of Metal and Horror
2021

Roadie
1980

Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
2021

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
2005

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
1991

Prince of Darkness
1987

Wayne's World
1992

The Filth and the Fury
2000

Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
2023

Cum On Feel The Noize
2017

Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
1997

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1978

Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
2007

Live Eighties
2004

Larry presents: Best of The 80s
2004

Zappa
2020

Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
2006

Suck
2009

Dark Shadows
2012

The Attic Expeditions
2001

John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
2004

Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
2010

WWE WrestleMania III
1987

Lemmy
2010

Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
2000

Alice Cooper: Trashes The World
1990

Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear
2011

Monster Dog
1984

Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns
1987

Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
1974

Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
1976

VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments
2009

Sextette
1978

Rock this Town
2022

Bigfoot
2012

Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
1979

Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
1991

Rockthology 2
2004

Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
2023

The Freddy Krueger Special
1988

Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
2023

Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre
2011

Spooktacular!
2023

The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
2020

Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film
2013

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
2013

I Love Muppets
2002

Best Ever Muppet Moments
2006

Super Duper Alice Cooper
2014

Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
2010

Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)
2022

Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8
2004

Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini
2015

An Honest Liar
2014

Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
1975

Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
2022

Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
2022

A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
1994

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
2001

Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970

Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
2022

Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)
2014

From Straight to Bizarre
2012

Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie
2014

2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2022

Prachtig 80: Volume 2
2003

The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One
2001

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
2023

When Woodstock Was Young
2009

Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting
2022

Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
2012

Hired Gun
2017

Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection
2003

Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
1991

Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
2024

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
1988

Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
2019

Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf
2019

This Is America Part 2
1980

Medicine Ball Caravan
1971

The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics
2011

Skum Rocks!
2013

Hollywood Vampires - Rock in Rio 2015
2015

Danny Says
2015

Mayor of the Sunset Strip
2003

Sunset Strip
2012

Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1
1989

Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3
1989

Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7
1990

Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15
1992

Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017
2017

Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970
1970

To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100
2015

Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
2018

Rock-a-bye
1973

Grease Day USA
1978

Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018
2018

Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017
2017

25 Years of Punk
2001
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death | 2010 | Producer | 
| Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death | 2010 | Writer |