Alice Cooper
Acting
- Born:
- 1948-02-04
- Place of birth:
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
Biography
Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier; February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than five decades. With a stage show that sometimes included a guillotine, gallows, electric chair, fake blood, boa constrictor and baby dolls, Cooper drew equally from horror movies, vaudeville and garage rock to pioneer a grandly theatrical and violent brand of heavy metal that was designed to shock. Alice Cooper originally was a band that consisted of Furnier on vocals and harmonica, Glen Buxton on lead guitar, Michael Bruce on rhythm guitar, Dennis Dunaway on bass guitar, and Neal Smith on drums. Taking on the name in 1968, the Alice Cooper band broke into the international music mainstream with the 1971 hit "I'm Eighteen". It was followed in 1972 by the even bigger single "School's Out", which reached #1 in the UK during that summer. The band reached its commercial peak with the transatlantic #1 album Billion Dollar Babies in 1973. Furnier's solo career as Alice Cooper, legally adopting the band's name as his own, began with the 1975 concept album Welcome to My Nightmare, and reached his commercial peak with the 1989 hit "Poison". His most recent studio release (his 18th solo album) was in 2008, Along Came a Spider. Expanding from his original Detroit-based garage rock roots, over the years Cooper has experimented with many different musical styles, including art rock, conceptual rock, rock and roll, jazz, new wave, and heavy metal. He's known for his social and witty persona offstage. The Rolling Stone Album Guide goes so far as to call him the world's most "beloved heavy metal entertainer". He helped to shape the sound and look of heavy metal, and is seen as the person who "first introduced horror imagery to rock'n'roll, and whose stagecraft and showmanship have permanently transformed the genre". Away from music, Cooper is a film actor, a golfing celebrity, a restaurateur, and since 2004 a popular radio DJ with his classic rock show Nights with Alice Cooper. In 2011, the original Alice Cooper Group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Known For
Filmography
Unleashed Spirits: The Rise of the Hollywood Vampires
Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
Frampton
Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me
Dreams
The Yardbirds - In Their Own Words
Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
Jim Henson Idea Man
Jonathan & Jesus
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
Spooktacular!
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
Hollywood Vampires: Live In Rio
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)
Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting
No Cover
Rock this Town
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
The History of Metal and Horror
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Rock Camp: The Movie
Zappa
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Power Hour
Laurel Canyon
Reunited Apart
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
Stars in the House
Duncanville
Suzi Q
House of Cardin
Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean
Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll
Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness
Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
The Top Ten Revealed
Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris
Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017
Glam Rock at the BBC
Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017
Hired Gun
Cum On Feel The Noize
To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini
Danny Says
Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie
Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip
Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)
The Art of McCartney
An Honest Liar
Super Duper Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972
Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11
Skum Rocks!
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
A Band Called Death
Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen
The Last Leg
Alice Cooper: Live at Wacken Open Air 2013
Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974
Alice Cooper - AVO Session
Bigfoot
Counting Cars
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story
Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012
The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange
Dark Shadows
Sunset Strip
From Straight to Bizarre
Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear
The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics
Bubble Guppies
Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Lemmy
VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments
100 Most Shocking Music Moments
When Woodstock Was Young
Celebrity Ghost Stories
Live from Studio Five
Suck
This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
The Story of the Yardbirds
Promised Land of Heavy Metal
Life After Dead: The Ladies of the Evil Dead
Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation
The Graham Norton Show
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1979
The One Show
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
Best Ever Muppet Moments
40 Years of Star Trek
The Perfect Scary Movie
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Spooks & Creeps
Rockthology 2
Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8
Live Eighties
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
Back To The 80's - Live In Concert
Larry presents: Best of The 80s
Ho Ho Ho Selecta!
Let it Rock: Volume 1
Prachtig 80: Volume 2
Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection
100 Greatest Scary Moments
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
Die ultimative Chartshow
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Top Gear
Monk
I Love Muppets
When Rock Ruled the World
Slå på ring
The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One
25 Years of Punk
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
The Attic Expeditions
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
The Filth and the Fury
Trigger Happy TV
Rove
På date med Alice - Sofia Eriksson möter Alice Cooper
Where Are They Now?
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn
Freakshow
That '70s Show
Leute heute
Classic Albums
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America!
Never Mind the Buzzcocks
TFI Friday
The Frank Skinner Show
A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who
Room 101
Space Ghost Coast to Coast
Later... with Jools Holland
Wayne's World
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15
Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
Alice Cooper: Trashes The World
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7
Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3
This Morning
The Freddy Krueger Special
Monster Dog
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
Prince of Darkness
Jake "The Snake" Roberts
WWE WrestleMania III
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns
WWF Wrestling Challenge
WWF Superstars
Muppet Video: Rock Music with the Muppets
Alice Cooper à Paris
Riverside
This Is America Part 2
Roadie
Pink Lady
Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Grease Day USA
Sextette
Alice Cooper and Friends
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
The Muppet Show
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Tony Orlando and Dawn
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
The Snoop Sisters
Rock-a-Bye
Medicine Ball Caravan
Disco
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970
Alice Cooper
Top of the Pops
The Mike Douglas Show