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Larry Cohen
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lawrence G. Cohen, Lawrence George Cohen
American film producer, director, and screenwriter (1936–2019)
Film & TV
Kingston, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- Masters of the Grind — Self2023
- Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business — Self2020
- In Search of Darkness: Part II — Self2020
- In Search of Darkness — Self2019
- The Fear Is Real — Self2018
- King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen — Self2018
- Bette Davis: Larger Than Life — Self2017
- 42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street — Self2015
- House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before! — Self2013
- American Grindhouse — Himself2011
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 40
- Total plays
- 206
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Cohen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Washington Heights
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- screenwriter
- Educated at
- City College of New York
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Larry Cohen 2010.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1936-07-15
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- date of death
- 2019-03-23
- name in native language
- Larry Cohen
- birth name
- Lawrence G. Cohen
- Commons category
- Larry Cohen
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Larry Cohen
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