Alice Cooper
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1948-02-04 (77 years old)
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Alice Cooper
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.
Known For
Acting
(2025)
(2025)
(2024)
Jim Henson Idea Man
as Self (archive footage)
(2024)
(2024)
(2023)
(2023)
(2023)
(2023)
(2022)
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
as Self - Presenter
(2022)
(2022)
Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
(2022)
Rock this Town
as Self (archive footage)
(2022)
Alice Cooper - Hellfest
as Self - Vocals
(2022)
(2021)
(2021)
Rock Camp: The Movie
as Self
(2021)
(2020)
Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
as Self (archive footage)
(2020)
(2019)
Suzi Q
as Self
(2019)
House of Cardin
as Self
(2019)
Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine
as Self - Musician
(2019)
(2019)
(2018)
Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert
as King Herod
(2018)
(2018)
(2018)
(2018)
(2017)
Hired Gun
as Self
(2017)
Cum On Feel The Noize
as Self
(2017)
(2017)
Glam Rock at the BBC
as Self (archive footage)
(2017)
Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017
as Self - Vocals
(2017)
Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017
as Self - Vocals
(2015)
Danny Says
as Self
(2015)
(2015)
To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100
as Self
(2015)
Hollywood Vampires - Rock in Rio 2015
as Self - Vocals
(2014)
An Honest Liar
as Self
(2014)
Wacken
as Self
(2014)
The Art of McCartney
as Self
(2014)
Super Duper Alice Cooper
as Self (voice)
(2014)
(2014)
Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972
as Self
(2014)
Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken)
as Self - Vocals
(2013)
(2013)
Skum Rocks!
as Self / Narrator (voice)
(2013)
(2013)
A Band Called Death
as Self
(2013)
(2013)
(2013)
The Sunflower Superjam 2012
as Self
(2013)
(2013)
(2012)
Dark Shadows
as Alice Cooper
(2012)
Sunset Strip
as Self
(2012)
Bigfoot
as Alice Cooper
(2012)
(2012)
(2012)
From Straight to Bizarre
as Self
(2012)
Alice Cooper - AVO Session
as Self
(2012)
Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012
as Self
(2011)
(2011)
(2011)
(2010)
(2010)
Lemmy
as Self
(2010)
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
as Self - Vocals
(2009)
Suck
as Bartender
(2009)
When Woodstock Was Young
as Self
(2009)
(2009)
This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s
as Self (archive footage)
(2008)
The Story of the Yardbirds
as Self
(2008)
Promised Land of Heavy Metal
as Self (archive footage)
(2007)
(2007)
(2007)
Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep
as Self - Vocals
(2006)
Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005
as Lead Vocal
(2006)
Best Ever Muppet Moments
as Self
(2006)
40 Years of Star Trek
as Self
(2005)
(2005)
The Perfect Scary Movie
as Self
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
Spooks & Creeps
as Pirate Jack ("Freakshow")
(2004)
Live Eighties
as Self
(2004)
(2004)
(2003)
Mayor of the Sunset Strip
as Self
(2003)
Let it Rock: Volume 1
as Self
(2003)
Prachtig 80: Volume 2
as Self
(2003)
(2002)
I Love Muppets
as Self
(2002)
When Rock Ruled the World
as Self
(2001)
The Attic Expeditions
as Samuel Leventhal
(2001)
25 Years of Punk
as Self
(2001)
(2001)
(2000)
The Filth and the Fury
as Self (archive footage)
(2000)
Alice Cooper: Brutally Live
as Self - Vocals
(1999)
Freakshow
as Pirate Jack (voice)
(1997)
(1995)
The History of Rock 'n' Roll
as Self
(1994)
(1992)
Wayne's World
as Alice Cooper
(1992)
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15
as Self
(1991)
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare
as Mr. Underwood
(1991)
(1991)
Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts
as Self
(1990)
Alice Cooper: Trashes The World
as Self - Vocals
(1990)
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7
as Self
(1989)
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1
as Self
(1989)
Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3
as Self
(1988)
(1988)
The Freddy Krueger Special
as Self
(1987)
Prince of Darkness
as Street Schizo
(1987)
WWE WrestleMania III
as Self
(1987)
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns
as Self - Vocals
(1984)
Monster Dog
as Victor Raven
(1982)
Alice Cooper à Paris
as Self
(1980)
Roadie
as Alice Cooper
(1980)
This Is America Part 2
as Self (archive footage)
(1979)
(1978)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
as Father Sun
(1978)
Sextette
as Waiter
(1978)
Grease Day USA
as Self
(1978)
Alice Cooper and Friends
as Self
(1976)
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
as Steven / Alice
(1975)
Alice Cooper: The Nightmare
as Steven
(1974)
Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper
as Self - Vocals
(1973)
Rock-a-bye
as Self
(1971)
Medicine Ball Caravan
as Self
(1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
as Alice Cooper
(1970)
Alice Cooper
as Self
(1970)
Crew
(2014)
Wacken
Compositors
(2010)
Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death
Producer, Writer
(2000)
(1986)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives
Theme Song Performance
(1983)
Wimp
Songs