Roger William Corman( born April 5, 1926) is an American director, producer, and actor.
He has been called" The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film.
Much of Corman's work has an established critical reputation, such as his cycle of low- budget cult films adapted from the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.
Admired by members of the French New Wave and" Cahiers du cinéma", in 1964 Corman was the youngest filmmaker to have a retrospective at the Cinémathèque Française, as well as in the British Film Institute and the Museum of Modern Art.
He was the co-founder of New World Pictures, a prolific multimedia company that helped to cement Fox as a major American television network, and is a longtime member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2009, he was awarded an Honorary Academy Award" for his rich engendering of films and filmmakers."
Corman mentored and gave a start to many young film directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Ron Howard, Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, John Sayles, and James Cameron, and was highly influential in the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
He also helped to launch the careers of actors like Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, Bruce Dern, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Ladd, and William Shatner.
Corman has occasionally taken minor acting roles in the films of directors who started with him, including" The Silence of the Lambs The Godfather Part IIApollo 13 The Manchurian Candidate" and" Philadelphia".
A documentary about Corman's life and career entitled, directed by Alex Stapleton, premiered at the Sundance and Cannes Film Festivals in 2011.
The film's TV rights were picked up by A&E IndieFilms after a well- received screening at Sundance.
Matt Corboy( born June 4, 1973) is an American actor.
He has appeared in both films and television series.
Invasion from Inner Earth( 1974) is an apocalyptic science fiction film, starring Paul Bentzen and Debbi Pick.
The film was directed by Bill Rebane, the same director of" Monster A Go- Go"( 1965), and" The Giant Spider Invasion"( 1975).
The film, also known as Hell Fire and They, was inspired by the British film" The Strange World of Planet X"( 1957), and filmed in the style of thrillers directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Jack the Giant Killer is a 2013 American fantasy film produced by The Asylum and directed by Mark Atkins.
A modern take of the fairy tales" Jack the Giant Killer" and" Jack and the Beanstalk", the film stars Ben Cross and Jane March.
It is a mockbuster of" Jack the Giant Slayer".
It was released on DVD in the UK as The Giant Killer.
Kevin Brodie( born May 31, 1952) is a film director, screenwriter and former child actor.
He is the son of the actors Steve Brodie and Barbara Ann Stillwell.
As a child, Brodie had small roles in such films as" Some Came Running"( directed by Vincente Minnelli, 1958)," The Five Pennies"( 1959) and" Battle at Bloody Beach"( 1961).
His first major role was in" The Night of the Grizzly"( 1966), playing the son of Clint Walker.
In the following year he appeared in the comedy" Eight on the Lam"( 1967).
During the same period he also made guest appearances on such popular television shows as" Cheyenne Ben CaseyDeath Valley Days My Three Sons" and" Mannix".
In 1975 he was one of the leads in the low budget sci-fi thriller" The Giant Spider Invasion", appearing with his father, Steve Brodie.
In the 1970s, he moved into production, working as an assistant director, line producer and writer.
He has written and directed a small number of films in genres ranging from exploitation comedy(" Delta Pi" aka" Mugsy's Girls", 1985) to thriller(" Treacherous", 1993) and family fare(" A Dog of Flanders", 1999).
Alan Hale, Jr.( born Alan Hale MacKahan, March 8, 1921 – January 2, 1990) was an American actor and restaurateur.
He was the son of character actor Alan Hale Sr. His television career spanned four decades, but was most noted for his co-starring role on the 1960s series" Gilligan's Island".
He also appeared on several talk and variety shows.
Hale appeared in more than 200 films and television roles.
His long acting career began in films in 1941, appearing primarily in Westerns and playing opposite Kirk Douglas in" The Big Trees"( 1952), Audie Murphy in" Destry"( 1954), Ray Milland in" A Man Alone"( 1955), Robert Wagner in" The True Story of Jesse James"( 1957), Hugh Marlowe in" The Long Rope"( 1961), and Sheriff Jones in" The Giant Spider Invasion"( 1975).
He also appeared in musical comedies opposite Don DeFore in" It Happened on Fifth Avenue"( 1947), James Cagney in" The West Point Story"( 1950), and Judy Canova in" Honeychile"( 1951).
He achieved continuing success on the CBS comedy" Gilligan's Island"( 1964 – 1967), playing the secondary lead role of the Skipper.
Hale reprised the role of Skipper in three" Gilligan's Island" television films and two spin- off cartoon series.
Bloody Mama is a 1970 American low- budget drama film directed by Roger Corman and starring Shelley Winters in the title role.
It was very loosely based on the real story of Ma Barker, who is depicted as a corrupt mother who encourages and organizes her children's criminality.
The film features an early appearance by a young Robert De Niro as Lloyd Barker.
Corman says the film is one of his favorites.
Baron Bill Rebane( born February 8, 1937) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
He is best known for low budget horror movies such as" Twist Craze" and" The Giant Spider Invasion".
Rebane also ran for the governor of Wisconsin in 1979 and 2002 as the American Reform Party candidate.
The Giant Spider Invasion is a 1975 science fiction horror film directed by Bill Rebane.
The film is about giant spiders that terrorize the town of Merrill, Wisconsin and the surrounding area.
" The Giant Spider Invasion" was given a U.S. release in theaters in 1975, and was distributed by Group 1 Films.
The film received a considerable theatrical run and became one of the 50 top- grossing films of that year.
After a three- time ABC television network run, the movie achieved additional exposure many years later, when it was featured in a 1997 episode of" Mystery Science Theater 3000".
It is now regarded as a cult classic in the B movie realm.
The film gives major roles to some actors who might have been considered" has- beens" at the time.
The leads were Steve Brodie and Barbara Hale, with other roles going to Alan Hale, Jr. and Leslie Parrish.
The film's one" Giant Spider" was constructed by covering a Volkswagen automobile with artificial black fur, with the fake legs operated from the inside by seven members of the crew.
The back of the car was the front of the monster, and its red tail lights served as the monster's glowing eyes.
A few other" giant spiders" were puppets representing spiders as large as dogs, while full- grown tarantulas were used as spider hatchlings.
Based on the success of" Yojimbo", Kurosawa's next film," Sanjuro"( 1962), was altered to incorporate the lead character of this film.
In both films, the character wears a rather dilapidated dark kimono bearing the same family" mon".

Question: Do both films The Giant Spider Invasion and Bloody Mama have the directors that share the same nationality?
Answer: yes