Roger Corman, who directed and produced countless B-movies and championed future industry stalwarts Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, and Jack Nicholson, died at his home in Santa Monica, California on May 9, Variety reports. He was 98.
“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,’” the family said in a statement to the outlet.
For nearly five decades, he dominated the B-movie market, with films that ranged from his early work in the Fifties, which included Westerns, such as Five Guns West and The Gunslinger to horror and sci-fi, including The Day the World Ended and The Undead, to teen flicks like Carnival Rock and Rock All Night.
His 1958 picture Machine-Gun Kelly signified a turning point in his being critically recognized. He…
