Alice Cooper profile
Actor profile

Alice Cooper

4th February 1948 Detroit, Michigan, USA Acting

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.

141 Movies 45 TV Shows 194 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Zappa poster
Zappa 27th November 2020 as Self (archive footage)
Suzi Q poster
Suzi Q 25th September 2019 as Self
Skum Rocks! poster
Skum Rocks! 26th September 2013 as Self / Narrator (voice)
Bigfoot poster
Bigfoot 28th October 2012 as Alice Cooper
Lemmy poster
Lemmy 15th March 2010 as Self
Suck poster
Suck 11th September 2009 as Bartender
Freakshow poster
Freakshow 1st January 1999 as Pirate Jack (voice)
Top Gear poster
Top Gear 20th October 2002 as Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
Monk poster
Monk 12th July 2002 as Alice Cooper
Rove poster
Rove 22nd September 1999 as Self
Disco poster
Disco 13th February 1971 as Self