Larry Cohen

AKA:
Lawrence G Cohen
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
04/30/1936
Birthplace:
New York, New York
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biography
After honing his craft writing and creating series for 1950s and 60s TV and having several screenplays produced in the 60s, Cohen became a major low-rent auteur of 70s cheapie genre movies. His ambitious 1972 debut, "Bone" (aka "Dial Rat for Terror" or "Beverly Hills Nightmare") featured Yaphet Kotto as a Black intruder who has a surprising showdown with an affluent white couple (Andrew Duggan, Joyce Van Patten) in their Beverly Hills home. This bizarre black comedy was an attempt to adapt the social satirical concerns of British playwright Joe Orton and Jean-Luc Godard (circa "Weekend" 1967) Continued
Credits
Captivity
Screenplay
2007
Masters of Horror
(TV Show)
2006-2006
Pick Me Up
Director
2006
Cellular
Story By
2004
Phone Booth
Screenplay
2003
Maniac Cop 2
Producer
2003
Maniac Cop
Producer
2003
Maniac Cop 2
screenplay
2003
Maniac Cop
screenplay
2003
Original Gangstas
Director
1996
Q
Director
1982
Q
screenplay
1982
Q
Producer
1982
Guilty As Sin
Screenplay
Wicked Stepmother
Screenplay
The Mechanic
Screenplay
Body Snatchers
Story By
Body Snatchers
From Story
Scandalous
From Story
Perfect Strangers
Producer
Deadly Illusion
Director
American Success Company
screenplay
American Success Company
From Story
Hell Up in Harlem
Producer
A Return to Salem's Lot
Executive Producer
It's Alive
Producer
The Ambulance
Director
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Director
Bone
Director
It's Alive
Director
Black Caesar
Director
Special Effects
Director
A Return to Salem's Lot
Director
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
Director
Perfect Strangers
Director
Full Moon High
Director
Hell Up in Harlem
Director
It's Alive 2
Director
Wicked Stepmother
Director
God Told Me To
Director
The Stuff
Director
Deadly Illusion
screenplay
Return of the Seven
screenplay
Full Moon High
screenplay
Hell Up in Harlem
screenplay
The Stuff
screenplay
It's Alive
screenplay
Badge of Silence: Maniac Cop III
screenplay
Perfect Strangers
screenplay
Black Caesar
screenplay
I Deal in Danger
screenplay
Best Seller
screenplay
A Return to Salem's Lot
From Story
A Return to Salem's Lot
screenplay
Special Effects
screenplay
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
screenplay
The Ambulance
screenplay
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
screenplay
The Ambulance
Screenplay
I, the Jury
screenplay
El Condor
screenplay
It's Alive 2
screenplay
God Told Me To
screenplay
Wicked Stepmother
screenplay
Guilty As Sin
screenplay
Bone
screenplay
Uncle Sam
screenplay
It's Alive 2
Producer
Bone
Producer
God Told Me To
Producer
The Stuff
Executive Producer
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
Producer
Black Caesar
Producer
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
Executive Producer
Full Moon High
Producer
Wicked Stepmother
Executive Producer
milestones
Year
Milestone
1958 
Worked as a writer for "Kraft Mystery Theatre" on NBC-TV
 
Wrote for the popular CBS-TV courtroom drama, "The Defenders" in the early 1960s
1963 
Wrote for "Arrest and Trial", an ABC-TV cop/lawyer drama
1965 
Formed own film production company, Larco
 
Created and wrote episodes of "Branded", an NBC-TV Western starring Chuck Connors
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