Roger Corman

American film director and producer (1926–2024)

0.45body-of-work score · ranked #1474 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born: April 5, 1926 · Detroit
Died: May 9, 2024 · Santa Monica
Nationality: United States
Work: film director, film producer, television actor, film actor
Reference: Wikipedia · Wikidata

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1
House of Usher
1960 · United States · horror
National Film Registry (inducted 2005)
0.231 citation
2
A Bucket of Blood
1959 · United States · horror, comedy
Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.111 citation
3
The Masque of the Red Death
1964 · United Kingdom / United States · horror, drama, fantasy
Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.111 citation

Complete filmography

All 56 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

1955Apache Woman
1955Day the World Ended
1955Five Guns West
1955Swamp Women
1955The Beast with a Million Eyes
1956Attack of the Crab Monsters
1956Gunslinger
1956It Conquered the World
1956The Oklahoma Woman
1957Carnival Rock
1957Naked Paradise
1957Not of This Earth
1957Rock All Night
1957Sorority Girl
1957Teenage Doll
1957The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
1957The Undead
1958I Mobster
1958Machine-Gun Kelly
1958She Gods of Shark Reef
1958Teenage Cave Man
1958War of the Satellites
1959A Bucket of Blood
1959The Wasp Woman
1960House of Usher
1960Last Woman on Earth
1960Ski Troop Attack
1960The Little Shop of Horrors
1961Atlas
1961Creature from the Haunted Sea
1961The Pit and the Pendulum
1962Tales of Terror
1962The Intruder
1962The Premature Burial
1962Tower of London
1963The Haunted Palace
1963The Raven
1963The Terror
1963The Young Racers
1963X
1964The Masque of the Red Death
1964The Secret Invasion
1964The Tomb of Ligeia
1966The Wild Angels
1967A Time for Killing
1967The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1967The Trip
1968The Wild Racers
1969De Sade
1969Target: Harry
1970Bloody Mama
1970Gas-s-s-s
1971Von Richthofen and Brown
1978Deathsport
1980Battle Beyond the Stars
1990Frankenstein Unbound