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Roger Corman, Hollywood mentor and king of the B-movie, dies aged 98
The Oscar-winning director helped realise low-budget classics such as Little Shop of Horrors and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks
Roger Corman, the Oscar-winning so-called “King of the Bs” who helped turn out such low-budget classics as Little Shop of Horrors and gave many of Hollywood’s most famous actors and directors early breaks, has died aged 98. When Howard, who would go on to win a best director Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, pleaded for an extra half day to reshoot a scene in 1977 for Grand Theft Auto, Corman told him: “Ron, you can come back if you want, but nobody else will be there.” Meanwhile, he discovered a lucrative sideline releasing prestige foreign films in the United States, among them Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers, Federico Fellini’s Amarcord and Volker Schlondorff’s The Tin Drum.
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