His family confirmed to the trade journal Variety that he passed away at his Santa Monica, California, home on Thursday.
According to their statement, “His films were revolutionary and iconoclastic, and captured the spirit of an age.”
Actors he helped nurture include Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson. Martin Scorsese and James Cameron both got their start in filmmaking with his productions.
In an effort to conserve money, he frequently shot two movies at the same site and time, and several of his films went on to become cult classics. He also gained notoriety for working quickly.
On April 5, 1926, Roger Corman was born in Detroit. William, his father, was an engineer, and he had planned to become one too.
But while attending college, he developed an interest in filmmaking, and after working for General Motors for a period, he left the company to work as a messenger boy at 20th Century .
