Alice Cooper

Actor · Born February 4, 1948 · Detroit, Michigan, USA

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.

Acted in 33

2020s

2026
Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
Movie
Frampton
Movie
2024
The Yardbirds - In Their Own Words
Movie
2023
Hollywood Vampires: Live In Rio
Lead & Backing Vocals / Harmonica / Rhythm Guitar
2020
The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault
(archive footage)
Duncanville
Alice Cooper · 1 episode
67

2010s

2018
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
King Herod
2012
Bigfoot
Alice Cooper
27
2011
Bubble Guppies
Windy Pete (voice) · 1 episode
66

2000s

2009
Suck
Bartender
56
2006
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
Lead Vocal
2004
Spooks & Creeps
Pirate Jack ("Freakshow")
2003
Ho Ho Ho Selecta!
Celebrity of Christmas Future
2002
Monk
Alice Cooper · 1 episode
80
80's Top Ten Hits
Movie
2001
Slå på ring
TV
The Attic Expeditions
Samuel Leventhal
50
2000
Trigger Happy TV
TV

1990s

1999
Freakshow
Pirate Jack (voice)
1998
That '70s Show
Alice Cooper · 1 episode
80
1996
TFI Friday
TV · 1 Season · Comedy
68
1992
Later... with Jools Holland
TV · 69 Seasons · Talk
1991
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
Mr. Underwood
41

1980s

1988
Monster Dog
Victor Raven
46
1987
Prince of Darkness
Street Schizo
62
1986
WWF Superstars
Alice Cooper · 3 episodes
1980
Pink Lady
Alice Cooper · 1 episode

1970s

1978
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Father Sun
Sextette
Waiter
35
1976
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
Steven / Alice
1975
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
Steven
1973
The Snoop Sisters
Prince · 1 episode
1970
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Alice Cooper

Sound 2

2000s

2000
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
Songs

1980s

1986
Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI
Theme Song Performance
50

Produced 1

2010s

2010
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
Producer

Other crew 1

2010s

2014
Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie
Compositors

Wrote 1

2010s

2010
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
Writer

Appearances160

2020s

2026
Unleashed Spirits: The Rise of the Hollywood Vampires
Self
Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me
Self
2025
Dreams
Self
2024
Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf
Self
Jim Henson Idea Man
Self (archive footage)
80
Jonathan & Jesus
Self · 4 episodes
2023
Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva
Self
Spooktacular!
Self
Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World
Self
The Lost Weekend: A Love Story
Self
Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC
Self
2022
Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon
Self
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Self - Presenter
Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It)
Self
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022)
Self - Vocals
Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting
Self
No Cover
Self · 11 episodes
Rock this Town
Self (archive footage)
2021
Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories
Self
The History of Metal and Horror
Self
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
Self (archive footage) · 2 episodes
76
Rock Camp: The Movie
Self
2020
Zappa
Self (archive footage)
79
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives
Self
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Self (archive footage)
83
Power Hour
Self · 1 episode
Laurel Canyon
Self · 2 episodes
Reunited Apart
Self · 1 episode
Stars in the House
Self · 1 episode