Alice Cooper
- Acting
- February 4, 1948 · 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 · Self
- Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
- Frampton
- Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me · Self
- Dreams · Self
- The Yardbirds - In Their Own Words
- Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf · Self
- Jim Henson Idea Man · Self
- Jonathan & Jesus · Self
- Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva · Self
- Spooktacular! · Self
- Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World · Self
- Hollywood Vampires: Live In Rio · Lead & Backing Vocals / Harmonica / Rhythm Guitar
- The Lost Weekend: A Love Story · Self
- Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC · Self
- Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon · Self
- 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony · Self
- Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It) · Self
- Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary · Self
- Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022) · Self
- Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting · Self
- No Cover · Self
- Rock this Town · Self
- Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories · Self
- The History of Metal and Horror · Self
- 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything · Self
- Rock Camp: The Movie · Self
- Zappa · Self
- AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives · Self
- The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart · Self
- Power Hour · Self
- Laurel Canyon · Self
- Reunited Apart · Self
- The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault · (archive footage)
- Stars in the House · Self
- Duncanville · Alice Cooper
- Suzi Q · Self
- House of Cardin · Self
- Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf · Self
- Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine · Self
- Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean · Self
- Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik · Self
- Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll · Self
- Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness · Self
- Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018 · Self
- Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert · King Herod
- The Top Ten Revealed · Self
- Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris · Self
- Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017 · Self
- Glam Rock at the BBC · Self
- Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017 · Self
- Hired Gun · Self
- Cum On Feel The Noize · Self
- To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100 · Self
- Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini · Self
- Danny Says · Self
- Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie · Self, Compositors
- Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip · Self
- Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken) · Self
- The Art of McCartney · Self
- An Honest Liar · Self
- Super Duper Alice Cooper · Self
- Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972 · Self
- Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11 · Self
- Skum Rocks! · Self / Narrator (Voice)
- Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th · Self
- Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon · Self
- The Sunflower Superjam 2012 · Self
- A Band Called Death · Self
- Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film · Self
- Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen · Self
- The Last Leg · Self
- Alice Cooper: Live at Wacken Open Air 2013 · Self
- Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974 · Self
- Alice Cooper - AVO Session · Self
- Bigfoot · Alice Cooper
- Counting Cars · Self
- Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story · Self
- Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012 · Self
- The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange · Self