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[[caption-width-right:240:Larry Cohen and his children.]]

->''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]].''

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 He originally made his way through Hollywood back in [[TheSixties the 1960's]] as a screenwriter and producer.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.

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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[[folder: Notable Works: ]]

* ''Series/{{Branded|1965}}'' (1965)- series creator
* ''Series/TheInvaders1967'' (1967)- series creator
* ''Film/{{Bone}}'' (1972)
* ''Film/BlackCaesar'' (1973)
** And the sequel: ''Hell Up In Harlem'' (1974)
* ''Series/{{Columbo}}'' (1973-1977) - episodes "An Exercise in Fatality", "Candidate for Crime", and "Any Old Port in a Storm"
* ''Film/ItsAlive'' (1974)
** And the sequels: ''It Lives Again'' (1978) and ''It's Alive III: Island of the Alive'' (1987)
* ''Film/GodToldMeTo'' (1976)
* ''The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover'' (1977)
* ''Full Moon High'' (1981)
* ''Film/QTheWingedSerpent'' (1982)
* ''Film/SpecialEffects'' (1984)
* ''Film/TheStuff'' (1985)
* ''A Return to Literature/SalemsLot'' (1987)
* ''Film/ManiacCop'' (1988) (Writer and Producer)
* ''Film/UncleSam'' (1997) (Writer)
* ''Film/PhoneBooth'' (2002) (Writer)
* ''Film/{{Cellular}}'' (2004) (Writer)
* ''Film/{{Captivity}}'' (2007) (Writer)
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