Screenwriter-director Howard R. Cohen died April 3 of a heart attack at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He was 56.
Writer-director credits include “Saturday the Fourteenth,” “Time Trackers,” and “Rainbow Brite & the Star Stealer.”
In the 1980s, he ventured into radio as a producer of the syndicated show “Future Files.”
He also wrote more than 150 episodes of the TV cartoon “Rainbow Brite.”
Additionally, Cohen wrote the book “Test Your Movie I.Q.”
He began in the magazine industry, founding the alternative humor mag Aardvark and serving as editor in chief. He also worked as an editor for Playboy.
He joined with Murphy Dunne, Ira Miller and Jeff Begun to found the Conception Corp., an Atlantic Records comedy group that received noted airplay. The partners’ successful underground video production, “Void Where Prohibited by Law,” prompted them to move to Los Angeles. There, Cohen met filmmaker Roger Corman and began directing and writing screenplays.
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Cohen is survived by two sisters.
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