Considered as the king of the B series of the 50’s and 60’s, its main characteristics were the speed of its filming (some done only in a couple of days, such as the 1960 black humor classic “The little store of horror“), and the low budgets of their productions, most of them genre films destined for double programs and open-air cinemas for motorists, the« drive in theaters ».
As a producer, on most occasions for the American International Pictures, gave opportunities to future filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Peter bogdanovich, Ron Howard, Jonathan Demme, James Cameron Y John sayles; and marked the beginning in the careers of many actors such as Jack Nicholson, Peter fonda, Bruce dern, Michael McDonald, Dennis Hopper Y Robert De Niro.
With your company New Horizon Films He visited some Latin American countries, such as Mexico and Argentina, where he co-produced, in the latter, ten films in the eighties, including “Barbarian queen“(1985). Since its inception in 1954, Corman has produced nearly 400 films.
Among his more than a hundred films as a director, the cycle dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe, with titles like “The Fall of the House of Usher“(1960),”The pendulum of death“(1961),”The Raven“(1963) and”The Masque of the Red Death“(1964); films built around the personality of Vincent Price and other old glories revalued by Corman What Boris Karloff, Ray Milland, Peter lorre Y Basil rathbone.
In 1990 he published his autiobiography where he documents his experience in the film industry; was titled “How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime“(How I made a hundred movies and never lost a penny).
In 2009, the Hollywood Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him a Oscar honorific in recognition of his career.
In his personal life Corman and his wife Julie, who have been married since 1970, have four children and live in Santa Monica, California.