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Alice Cooper

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Alice Cooper is 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alice Cooper, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Born:
Feb 4, 1948 In Detroit, Michigan, USA
Movie/TV Credits:
109
First Appeared:
In the movie Carnal Redemption
Latest Project:
Movie Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC 2023-03-10
Known For
Poster of Pink Lady
Poster of Sextette
Poster of Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
Poster of Alice Cooper: Good to See You Again
Filmography
Movie Carnal Redemption 2025
Movie Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC Self 2023-03-10
Movie Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It) Self 2022-10-01
Movie 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Self - Presenter 2022-11-19
Movie The History of Metal and Horror Self 2021-09-17
Series Laurel Canyon Self 2020-05-31
Movie Zappa Self (archive footage) 2020-11-27
Movie Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean Self 2019-02-22
Movie Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine Self - Musician 2019-03-14
Movie House of Cardin Self 2019-09-06
Movie Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf Self 2019-04-05
Movie Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert King Herod 2018-04-01
Movie Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018 Self 2018-06-22
Movie Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik Self 2018-12-14
Movie Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness Self 2018-10-25
Movie Cum On Feel The Noize Self 2017-01-28
Movie Hired Gun Self 2017-06-29
Movie Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017 Self - Vocals 2017-09-21
Movie Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017 Self - Vocals 2017-08-03
Movie Danny Says Self 2015-03-18
Movie To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100 Self 2015-12-12
Movie Hollywood Vampires - Rock in Rio 2015 Self - Vocals 2015-09-24
Movie Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini Self 2015-10-16
Movie An Honest Liar Self 2014-04-18
Movie Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972 Self 2014-04-17
Movie Super Duper Alice Cooper Self (voice) 2014-04-17
Movie Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip Self 2014-10-29
Movie Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken) Self - Vocals 2014-10-21
Movie Wacken Self 2014-07-24
Movie The Art of McCartney Self 2014-10-01
Movie Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film Self 2013-04-20
Movie Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen Self 2013-03-06
Movie A Band Called Death Self 2013-06-27
Movie The Sunflower Superjam 2012 Self 2013-08-20
Movie Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11 Self 2013-12-26
Movie Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th Self - Rock Legend 2013-09-13
Movie Skum Rocks! Self / Narrator (voice) 2013-09-26
Movie Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon Self 2013-09-07
Movie Sunset Strip Self 2012-03-16
Movie From Straight to Bizarre Self 2012-02-21
Movie Dark Shadows Alice Cooper 2012-05-09
Movie Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012 Self 2012-07-04
Movie Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story Self 2012-07-17
Movie Bigfoot Alice Cooper 2012-10-28
Movie Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974 Self 2012-11-06
Movie Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear Self 2011-10-29
Movie Lemmy Self 2010-03-15
Movie Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy Self 2010-05-04
Movie Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death Self - Vocals 2010-10-01
Movie This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s Self (archive footage) 2009-08-27
Movie Suck Bartender 2009-09-11
Series 100 Most Shocking Music Moments Self 2009-12-28
Series Live from Studio Five Unknown 2009-09-14
Movie When Woodstock Was Young Self 2009-11-17
Movie Promised Land of Heavy Metal Self (archive footage) 2008-11-15
Movie Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation Self 2007-05-01
Movie Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005 Lead Vocal 2006-05-30
Movie 40 Years of Star Trek Self 2006-01-01
Movie Best Ever Muppet Moments Self 2006-03-11
Series The One Show Unknown 2006-08-14
Movie The Perfect Scary Movie Self 2005-10-29
Movie Metal: A Headbanger's Journey Self 2005-09-14
Movie John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies Self 2004-03-23
Movie Live Eighties Self 2004-06-01
Movie Spooks & Creeps Pirate Jack ("Freakshow") 2004-10-26
Movie Let it Rock: Volume 1 Self 2003-12-09
Movie Mayor of the Sunset Strip Self 2003-06-17
Series Monk Unknown 2002-07-12
Movie I Love Muppets Self 2002-03-31
Movie The Attic Expeditions Samuel Leventhal 2001-03-30
Movie 25 Years of Punk Self 2001-04-19
Movie Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror Self 2001-04-15
Movie The Filth and the Fury Self (archive footage) 2000-03-29
Movie Alice Cooper: Brutally Live Self - Vocals 2000-11-27
Series Where Are They Now? Unknown 1999-06-07
Series The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn Unknown 1999-03-30
Series That '70s Show Unknown 1998-08-23
Movie Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America! Self 1997-01-01
Movie The History of Rock 'n' Roll Self 1995-03-06
Series The Frank Skinner Show Unknown 1995-09-10
Movie A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who Self 1994-12-16
Movie Wayne's World Alice Cooper 1992-02-14
Movie Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts Self 1991-01-01
Movie Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare Mr. Underwood 1991-09-05
Movie Alice Cooper: Trashes The World Self - Vocals 1990-09-17
Movie Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7 Self 1990-01-01
Movie The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years Self 1988-06-17
Movie The Freddy Krueger Special Self 1988-08-18
Series This Morning Unknown 1988-10-03
Movie Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns Self - Vocals 1987-01-01
Movie WWE WrestleMania III Self 1987-03-29
Movie Prince of Darkness Street Schizo 1987-10-23
Movie Monster Dog Victor Raven 1984-12-01
Series Pink Lady Unknown 1980-03-01
Movie Roadie Alice Cooper 1980-06-13
Movie This Is America Part 2 Self (archive footage) 1980-09-05
Movie Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper Self 1979-04-09
Movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Father Sun 1978-07-24
Movie Sextette Waiter 1978-03-03
Series The Muppet Show Unknown 1976-09-05
Movie Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare Steven / Alice 1976-11-28
Movie Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Steven 1975-04-25
Movie Alice Cooper: Good to See You Again Self - Vocals 1974-01-01
Series Tony Orlando and Dawn Unknown 1974-12-04
Movie Rock-a-bye Self 1973-01-01
Movie Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970 Self 1970-06-13
Movie Diary of a Mad Housewife Alice Cooper 1970-08-10
Series Beat-Club Unknown 1965-09-25
Series Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970 Unknown 0