Rest in Peace Roger Corman-King of B-Movies, Dies at 98

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Legendary B-movie king Roger Corman, who directed and produced hundreds of low-budget films and discovered such future industry stars as Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro, has died. He was 98.

Roger Corman, the legendary filmmaker best known for producing and directing hundreds of low-budget cult-classic films, has died at the age of 98. According to Variety, Corman died surrounded by family at his home in Santa Monica on May 9. “His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age. When asked how he would like to be remembered, he said, ‘I was a filmmaker, just that,’” his family said in a statement shared with Variety.

Famously prolific, Corman was behind hundreds of films as both a director and producer, including It Conquered the World (1956), A Bucket of Blood (1959), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), X: The Man with the X-ray Eyes (1963), and The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967). He also famously directed a string of adaptations of the work of Edgar Allen Poe starring Vincent Price, including House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), and The Raven (1963) — all of which earned Corman a reputation as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.