RIP Roger Corman

An incredible list of accomplishments — producing and/or directing an estimated 400+ movies, shaping the marketing and distribution of foreign-language arthouse films in the seventies, giving early career breaks to A-listers including Robert De Niro, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard, and Peter Bogdanovich, and much more.

My favourite bit of Corman trivia (per The New York Times):

Among the others Mr. Corman nurtured was Jack Nicholson, who was 21 when Mr. Corman gave him his first movie role, the lead in “The Cry Baby Killer” (1958), and 23 when he had a small part as a masochistic dental patient in “The Little Shop of Horrors.” Before he went on to stardom, Mr. Nicholson acted in eight Corman movies and wrote three of them, including “The Trip,” an uncautionary tale about LSD.