Acting credits
27
Active
Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Larry Cohen
Directing
Career Snapshot
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Movies: 88Series: 11Crew credits: 73
TMDB ID: 19266
IMDb ID: nm0169540
Known for: Directing
Born: July 15, 1941
Died: March 23, 2019
Age: 77
Place of birth: Kingston, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1961 - 2023
Years active: 63
Average TMDB rating: 5.95
Wikidata: Q1337925
Also known as
Laurence Robert Cohen • Lawrence George Cohen • Lawrence Cohen
Other jobs
Writer (26)Director (13)Screenplay (9)Story (7)Creator (4)Producer (4)Original Story (2)Teleplay (2)
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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Movies
Movies
Movie credits linked with Larry Cohen.
as Self
Masters of the Grind
2023 • Movie
as Self
In Search of Darkness: Part II
2020 • Movie
as Self
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
2020 • Movie
as Self
In Search of Darkness
2019 • Movie
as Self
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
2018 • Movie
as Self
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
2017 • Movie
as Self
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
2015 • Movie
as Self
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
2013 • Movie
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2011 • Movie
as Himself
American Grindhouse
2011 • Movie
Writer
Messages Deleted
2010 • Movie
Screenplay
It's Alive
2009 • Movie
as Self
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
2009 • Movie
Writer
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
2009 • Movie
as Self
Tales from the Script
2009 • Movie
Original Story
Connected
2008 • Movie
Writer
Captivity
2007 • Movie
as Self
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
2006 • Movie
as Self
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
2006 • Movie
as Self
Hitchcocked!
2006 • Movie
as Self
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
2006 • Movie
as Self
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
2006 • Movie
as Self
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
2006 • Movie
Director
Pick Me Up
2006 • Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Larry Cohen.
Director • 1 eps
Masters of Horror
2005 • Series
as Self • 5 eps
100 Scariest Movie Moments
2004 • Series
Creator
The Invaders
1995 • Series
Writer • 1 eps
NYPD Blue
1993 • Series
Writer • 1 eps
Cool Million
1972 • Series
Creator
Coronet Blue
1967 • Series
Creator
The Invaders
1967 • Series
Creator
Branded
1965 • Series
Writer • 1 eps
Espionage
1963 • Series
Story • 1 eps
The Fugitive
1963 • Series
Writer • 9 eps
The Defenders
1961 • Series