Larry Cohen
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Larry Cohen

Born 15 July 1941 · Kingston, New York, USA · Died 23 March 2019

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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

Known for

Phone Booth
Cellular
Columbo
Spies Like Us
Maniac Cop
The Stuff
Q
Captivity
A Return to Salem's Lot
Masters of Horror
Return of the Seven
Maniac Cop 2
Messages Deleted
It's Alive
The Gambler, The Girl and The Gunslinger
Captivity
Pick Me Up
Cellular
Phone Booth
The Defenders: Choice of Evils
Misbegotten
Original Gangstas
Invasion of Privacy
Uncle Sam
The Ex
As Good As Dead
The Expert
Guilty as Sin
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
Maniac Cop 2
The Ambulance
Wicked Stepmother
Desperado: Avalanche at Devil's Ridge
Maniac Cop
A Return to Salem's Lot
It's Alive III: Island of the Alive
Deadly Illusion
Best Seller
Spies Like Us
The Stuff
Special Effects
Perfect Strangers
Scandalous
Women of San Quentin
Q
I, the Jury
Full Moon High
See China and Die
The American Success Company
It Lives Again
The Case of the Baltimore Girls
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
God Told Me To
Man on the Outside
It's Alive
Shootout in a One-Dog Town
Black Caesar
Hell Up In Harlem
Bone
In Broad Daylight
El Condor
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting
Scream Baby Scream
Return of the Seven
I Deal in Danger
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