American film producer and screenwriter Larry Cohen dies

YEREVAN, MARCH 25, ARMENPRESS. American film producer, director, and screenwriter Larry Cohen, who made his mark in the horror and blaxploitation genres with such innovative cult classics asIt's Alive,God Told Me To,Black CaesarandHell Up in Harlem, has passed away at the age of 77, The Hollywood Reporter said.

He died on March 23 in Los Angeles surrounded by loved ones.

Cohen began his career by writing for television in the late 1950s, and he created the Chuck Connors-starringBrandedforNBC and the cult sci-fi dramaThe Invaders, starring Roy Thinnes, for ABC.

More recently, the New York native wrote the screenplay for the Joel Schumacher thrillerPhone Booth(2002), starring Colin Farrell.