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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:240:Larry Cohen and his children.]] |
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| 4 | ->''Life has been good to me. I keep making pictures. Every year I make something. As long as I keep working, I have nothing to complain about. And the films I've made have all had some point to them. Otherwise, I wouldn't have felt they were worth doing. You have to have some direction in which you're headed and a destination which you have to arrive at by the end of the film, so that you feel it was a satisfactory trip. [[AuthorTract Some kind of personal statement has to be made]].'' |
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| 6 | Lawrence G. "Larry" Cohen (July 15, 1936 - March 23, 2019) was an American film writer, director, and producer best known for his low-budget works with heavy social commentary. He originally made his way through Hollywood back in [[TheSixties the 1960's]] as a screenwriter and producer. Having gained enough money and a strong enough reputation to start making his own movies, he created his first film, ''{{Film/Bone}}'' (aka ''The Housewife''). Unfortunately, it had a great deal of difficulty getting distribution and finding an audience, so consequently did very poorly in the box office. After being encouraged to write and direct a {{blaxploitation}} film, he created the considerably more successful ''Film/BlackCaesar''. Soon after, he turned to making [[HorrorFilms horror movies]], for which he is probably most famous. |
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| 8 | In his last years, he returned to writing screenplays, most of which are made-for-TV movies; his final directorial effort was an episode of the short-lived Showtime anthology series ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' ("[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS1E11PickMeUp Pick Me Up]]"). He died March 23, 2019 of cancer. |
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| 11 | [[AC:Notable Works:]] |
| 12 | * ''Series/{{Branded|1965}}'' (1965)- series creator |
| 13 | * ''Series/TheInvaders1967'' (1967)- series creator |
| 14 | * ''Film/{{Bone}}'' (1972) |
| 15 | * ''Film/BlackCaesar'' (1973) |
| 16 | ** And the sequel: ''Hell Up In Harlem'' (1974) |
| 17 | * ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' (1973-1977) - episodes "An Exercise in Fatality", "Candidate for Crime", and "Any Old Port in a Storm" |
| 18 | * ''Film/ItsAlive'' (1974) |
| 19 | ** And the sequels: ''It Lives Again'' (1978) and ''It's Alive III: Island of the Alive'' (1987) |
| 20 | * ''Film/GodToldMeTo'' (1976) |
| 21 | * ''The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover'' (1977) |
| 22 | * ''Full Moon High'' (1981) |
| 23 | * ''Film/QTheWingedSerpent'' (1982) |
| 24 | * ''Film/SpecialEffects'' (1984) |
| 25 | * ''Film/TheStuff'' (1985) |
| 26 | * ''A Return to Literature/SalemsLot'' (1987) |
| 27 | * ''Film/ManiacCop'' (1988) (Writer and Producer) |
| 28 | * ''Film/UncleSam'' (1997) (Writer) |
| 29 | * ''Film/PhoneBooth'' (2002) (Writer) |
| 30 | * ''Film/{{Cellular}}'' (2004) (Writer) |
| 31 | * ''Film/{{Captivity}}'' (2007) (Writer) |
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