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Larry Cohen

Larry Cohen

Directing
15 Jul 1941
23 Mar 2019
Kingston, New York, USA

Biography

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), Ce...

Also Known As

Laurence Robert Cohen, Lawrence George Cohen, Lawrence Cohen

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