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- Lawrence George Cohen (July 15, 1936 [a] – March 23, 2019) was an American filmmaker.
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Lawrence George Cohen (July 15, 1936 [a] – March 23, 2019) was an American filmmaker. He originally emerged as the writer of blaxploitation films such as Black Caesar and Hell Up in Harlem (both 1973), before becoming known as an author of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and satirical elements ...
An independent maverick who got his start in studio-based television, he is best known for inventive low-budget horror films that combine scathing social commentary with the requisite scares and occasional laughs. He was also a major player in the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Later in his career, he became a sought-after screenplay writer.
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Mar 25, 2019 · One B-filmmaker who never had that problem was Larry Cohen, who passed away this weekend at the age of 77.
He becomes well known for his inventive low-budget horror and science-fiction films, such as God Told Me To or Q- The Winged Serpent, all of them characterized by a provocative social commentary. In 1977 he directs his most ambitious project, a biopic on the life and work of FBI founder J. Edgar Hoover.
An independent maverick who got his start in studio-based television, he is best known for inventive low-budget horror films that combine scathing social commentary with the requisite scares and occasional laughs. He was also a major player in the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Later in his career, he became a sought-after screenplay writer.
- July 15, 1936
- March 23, 2019
Mar 28, 2019 · Larry Cohen, who has died aged 82, was a prolific writer and director of unpretentious drive-in cinema exploitation thrillers; he was known as “Hollywood’s king of schlock”, though some...
Mar 26, 2019 · O ne of the most celebrated American genre filmmakers of his generation, known for such exploitation classics as Black Caesar, It’s Alive and The Stuff, Larry Cohen passed away on 23 March at the age of 77.
