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.
Filmography
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Movies 145
TV Shows 39
Jonathan & Jesus (2024)
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva (2023)
Spooktacular! (2023)
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC (2023)
HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC. What is Rock Music? (2022)
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon (2022)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2022)
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It) (2022)
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World (2022)
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary (2022)
Alice Cooper - Hellfest (2022)
Rock this Town (2022)
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories (2021)
The History of Metal and Horror (2021)
Johnny Depp: King of Cult (2021)
Rock Camp: The Movie (2021)
Zappa (2020)
AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #5: HAUNTED LIVES (2020)
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020)
Laurel Canyon (2020)
Suzi Q (2019)
House of Cardin (2019)
Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf (2019)
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine (2019)
Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean (2019)
Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik (2018)
Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll (2018)
Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness (2018)
Detroit: Comeback City (2018)
Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018 (2018)
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018)
The Top Ten Revealed (2018)
Alice Cooper - A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris (2017)
Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017 (2017)
Glam Rock at the BBC (2017)
Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017 (2017)
Hired Gun (2017)
Here's To Life: The Story of the Refreshments (2017)
Cum On Feel The Noize (2017)
To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100 (2015)
Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini (2015)
Hollywood Vampires - Rock in Rio 2015 (2015)
Danny Says (2015)
Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip (2014)
Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken) (2014)
The Art of McCartney (2014)
Mother of Rock Lillian Roxon (2014)
Wacken (2014)
An Honest Liar (2014)
Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014)
Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972 (2014)
Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11 (2013)
Skum Rocks! (2013)
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th (2013)
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon (2013)
The Sunflower Superjam 2012 (2013)
A Band Called Death (2013)
Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film (2013)
Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen (2013)
Alice Cooper: Live at Wacken Open Air 2013 (2013)
Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974 (2012)
Alice Cooper - AVO Session (2012)
Bigfoot (2012)
Counting Cars (2012)
Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story (2012)
Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012 (2012)
Dark Shadows (2012)
Sunset Strip (2012)
From Straight to Bizarre (2012)
Metal Evolution (2011)
Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear (2011)
The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics (2011)
Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre (2011)
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death (2010)
Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy (2010)
Lemmy (2010)
100 Most Shocking Music Moments (2009)
VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments (2009)
When Woodstock Was Young (2009)
Celebrity Ghost Stories (2009)
Live from Studio Five (2009)
Suck (2009)
This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s (2009)
Promised Land of Heavy Metal (2008)
Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep (2007)
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation (2007)
The Graham Norton Show (2007)
The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1979 (2007)
The One Show (2006)
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005 (2006)
Best Ever Muppet Moments (2006)
Alice Cooper: Go To Hell (2006)
40 Years of Star Trek (2006)
The Perfect Scary Movie (2005)
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)
Fight club camp kusse (2005)
WWE: Jake 'The Snake' Roberts - Pick Your Poison (2005)
Spooks & Creeps (2004)
Rockthology 2 (2004)
Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8 (2004)
Live Eighties (2004)
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies (2004)
Larry presents: Best of The 80s (2004)
Let it Rock: Volume 1 (2003)
Prachtig 80: Volume 2 (2003)
Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection (2003)
Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)
Die ultimative Chartshow (2003)
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (2003)
Top Gear (2002)
Monk (2002)
One-Hit Wonders (2002)
I Love Muppets (2002)
When Rock Ruled the World (2002)
The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One (2001)
25 Years of Punk (2001)
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror (2001)
The Attic Expeditions (2001)
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live (2000)
The Filth and the Fury (2000)
Trigger Happy TV (2000)
Rove (1999)
British Rock Symphony (1999)
Where Are They Now? (1999)
The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn (1999)
Freakshow (1999)
That '70s Show (1998)
Spice Girls in America: A Tour Story (1998)
Leute heute (1997)
Classic Albums (1997)
Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America! (1997)
Never Mind the Buzzcocks (1996)
The Frank Skinner Show (1995)
The History of Rock 'n' Roll (1995)
A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who (1994)
Room 101 (1994)
Space Ghost Coast to Coast (1994)
Wayne's World (1992)
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15 (1992)
Ozzy Osbourne: Don't Blame Me (1991)
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991)
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts (1991)
Alice Cooper: Trashes The World (1990)
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7 (1990)
Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira (1989)
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3 (1989)
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1 (1989)
This Morning (1988)
The Freddy Krueger Special (1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years (1988)
Prince of Darkness (1987)
Jake the Snake Roberts (1987)
Rage (1987)
WWE WrestleMania III (1987)
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns (1987)
WWF Wrestling Challenge (1986)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Monster Dog (1984)
Wimp (1983)
Alice Cooper à Paris (1982)
This Is America Part 2 (1980)
Roadie (1980)
Pink Lady (1980)
Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper (1979)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Grease Day USA (1978)
Sextette (1978)
Alice Cooper and Friends (1978)
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare (1976)
The Muppet Show (1976)
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare (1975)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche (1975)
Tony Orlando and Dawn (1974)
Alice Cooper: Good to See You Again (1974)
Rock-a-bye (1973)
We Have Come for Your Daughters (1971)
Disco (1971)
Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970 (1970)
Alice Cooper (1970)
The Mike Douglas Show (1961)
The Great American Celebrity Spelling Bee
100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1948-02-04 (76 years old)
Birth NameVincent Damon Furnier
Birth PlaceDetroit, United States of America
ReligionThe Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
SpouseSheryl Cooper
ChildrenCalico Cooper
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsVincent Damon Furnier
Awardshonorary doctorate, Heritage Award, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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