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Director, Producer, Executive Producer Born: April 5, 1926 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:A former engineering student, "Roger Corman" entered the picture business as a messenger and ended up a producer/director after a stint as a story analyst and a brief detour to Oxford University. After returning to Hollywood, he saw an opportunity to make money and gain experience by making low-budget films to feed the drive-in and neighborhood theater circuits, which had been abandoned in large part by the major studios. Working from budgets of as little as 50,000 dollars, he quickly learned the art of creating bargain-basement entertainment and making money at it, producing and directing pictures for American International Pictures and Allied Artists. "Five Guns West", "Apache Woman", The Day the World Ended, It Conquered the World, "Not of This Earth", "The Undead", "Attack of the Crab Monsters", "Teenage Doll", "Machine Gun Kelly", "The Wasp Woman", and "Sorority Girl" were only a few of the... Full Biography
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