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), Cellular (2004) and Captivity (2007). Description above from the Wikipedia article Larry Cohen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​

KNOWN FOR

NYPD Blue
1995
The Fugitive
1965
The Defenders
1963
The Invaders
1967
Masters of Horror
2006
Branded
1965
Espionage
1964
Cellular
2004
Phone Booth
2003
Coronet Blue
1967
Maniac Cop
1988
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
30
Directing
22
Writing
75
Producing
19
Art
1
Crew
1
2023
Masters of the Grind
as Self
2020
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
as Self
2020
In Search of Darkness: Part II
as Self
2019
In Search of Darkness
as Self
2018
The Fear Is Real
as Self
2018
King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen
as Self
2017
Bette Davis: Larger Than Life
as Self
2015
42nd Street Memories: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Notorious Street
as Self
2013
House of Wax: Unlike Anything You've Seen Before!
as Self
2011
American Grindhouse
as Himself
2011
Scripting a New Slasher Super-Villain: Larry Cohen on Matt Cordell
2009
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
as Self
2009
Tales from the Script
as Self
2006
Morality and the Code: A How-to Manual for Hollywood
as Self
2006
Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
as Self
2006
Welcome to the Big House
as Self
2006
Prohibition Opens the Floodgates
as Self
2006
Hitchcocked!
as Self
2006
The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Bird
as Self
2006
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
as Self
2005
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
2004
Macked, Hammered, Slaughtered and Shafted
as Self
2004
Celling Out
as Self
2004
Dialing Up "Cellular"
as Self
2004
100 Scariest Movie Moments
as Self
2003
Making of Phone Booth
as Self
2002
BaadAsssss Cinema
as Self
1997
Hollywood Rated 'R'
as Self
1985
Spies Like Us
as Ace Tomato Agent
1984
Special Effects
as Journalist (uncredited)