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Larry Cohen
Born July 15, 1941 in Kingston, New York, USADied March 23, 201921 films
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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First watchThe Stuff19856.0Amalgamated Dairies hires David Rutherford, an FBI man turned industrial saboteur, to investigate a popular new product called “the Stuff,” a new dessert product that is blowing ice cream…View filmEssential films
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21 films as director- 2006Pick Me UpDirector
- 1996Original GangstasDirector
- 1995As Good As DeadDirector
- 1990The AmbulanceDirector
- 1989Wicked StepmotherDirector
- 1987Deadly IllusionDirector
- 1987A Return to Salem's LotDirector
- 1987It's Alive III: Island of the AliveDirector
- 1985The StuffDirector
- 1984Special EffectsDirector
- 1984Perfect StrangersDirector
- 1982QDirector
- 1981Full Moon HighDirector
- 1981See China and DieDirector
- 1978It Lives AgainDirector
- 1977The Private Files of J. Edgar HooverDirector
- 1976God Told Me ToDirector
- 1974It's AliveDirector
- 1973Hell Up In HarlemDirector
- 1973Black CaesarDirector
- 1972BoneDirector