# Roger Corman - RIP 1926-2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [May 12, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-corman-rip-1926-2024/1001436 "2024-05-12T02:12:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-corman-rip-1926-2024/1001436/21 "2024-05-12T22:19:23Z")
The last of my holy trinity of American pop culture (Stan Lee, Chuck Jones, and Corman) has finally passed away. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2024, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-corman-rip-1926-2024/1001436/22 "2024-05-12T22:41:32Z")
IIRC Wasn’t Corman an investor/backer in _Easy Rider_? IMDB doesn’t give him a producer credit. But he had such close ties with Peter Fonda and Nicholson. He must of been involved in some way. Corman had made several biker films. He cast Peter Fonda in _The Wild Angels_ a few years before Easy Rider. My favorite Corman films are _Bloody Mama_ with Shelly Winters and Robert De Niro in an early role. _Boxcar Bertha_ with David Carradine and Barbara Hershey was way ahead of its time. Very edgy. Then he produced _Big Bad Mama_ with Shatner and Angie Dickinson. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-corman-rip-1926-2024/1001436/23 "2024-05-13T00:23:50Z")
He also showed up in _Apollo 13_, as the Congressman who Jim Lovell is giving a tour to, who expresses doubts about whether continuing the space program is worth the costs. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats2)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-corman-rip-1926-2024/1001436/24 "2024-05-13T00:27:51Z")
I’ll say this for him. He was making movies with strong women characters when that wasn’t really a thing. Beverly Garland didn’t take no crap from anybody. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-corman-rip-1926-2024/1001436/25 "2024-05-13T01:12:46Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > I’ll say this for him. He was making movies with strong women characters when that wasn’t really a thing. Beverly Garland didn’t take no crap from anybody He used female crew behind the scenes, too. He wanted good people who would work for the price he paid. Gender and race were irrelevant. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-corman-rip-1926-2024/1001436/26 "2024-05-13T11:40:15Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Loved “Not of This Earth”. (Both versions). There were three versions There was a made for TV version with Michael York in 1995. Corman executive produced all three. Damn. I grew up on cheap Roger Corman flicks. Sometimes he even got some money and actual stars, like when he made _Frankenstein Unbound_ back in 1999 – Corman wrote and directed that one, based on a Brian Aldiss novel, starring John Hurt, Raul Julia, and Bridget Fonda. More often he stuck to exec. producing. But his stuff – even when awful – was pretty memorable. His \*Little Shop of Horrors cost almost nothing and was shot in only a couple of days. \* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roger-corman-rip-1926-2024/1001436.md?page=1)