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

• 2026Frampton
• 2026Vincent Price: What Keeps Us Alive
• 2024The Yardbirds - In Their Own Words
• 2023Hollywood Vampires: Live In Rio — Lead & Backing Vocals / Harmonica / Rhythm Guitar
• Duncanville — Alice Cooper
• 2020The AGFA Mystery Mixtape Vault — (archive footage)
• 2018Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert — King Herod
• 2014Louder Than Hell: Wacken The Movie — Self, Compositors
• 2012Bigfoot — Alice Cooper
• Bubble Guppies — Windy Pete (voice)
• 2010Alice Cooper: Theatre of Death — Self - Vocals, Producer, Writer
• 2009Suck — Bartender
• 2006Alice Cooper: Live at Montreux 2005 — Lead Vocal
• 2004Spooks & Creeps — Pirate Jack ("Freakshow")
• 2003Ho Ho Ho Selecta! — Celebrity of Christmas Future
• Monk — Alice Cooper
• Slå på ring
• 2001The Attic Expeditions — Samuel Leventhal
• 2000Alice Cooper: Brutally Live — Self - Vocals, Songs
• Trigger Happy TV
• 1999Freakshow — Pirate Jack (voice)
• That '70s Show — Alice Cooper
• TFI Friday
• Later... with Jools Holland
• 1991Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare — Mr. Underwood
• 1988Monster Dog — Victor Raven
• 1987Prince of Darkness — Street Schizo
• 1986Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI — Theme Song Performance
• WWF Superstars — Alice Cooper
• 1983Wimp — Songs
• Pink Lady — Alice Cooper
• 1978Sextette — Waiter
• 1978Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band — Father Sun
• 1976Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare — Steven / Alice
• 1975Alice Cooper: The Nightmare — Steven
• The Snoop Sisters — Prince
• 1970Diary of a Mad Housewife — Alice Cooper

Appearances as themselves (162)

• 2026Eddie Cochran: Don't Forget Me — Self
• 2026Unleashed Spirits: The Rise of the Hollywood Vampires — Self
• 2025Dreams — Self
• 2024Born to Be Wild: The Story of Steppenwolf — Self
• 2024Jim Henson Idea Man — Self (archive footage)
• Jonathan & Jesus — Self
• 2023Michael Monroe -dokumenttielokuva — Self
• 2023Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC — Self
• 2023Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World — Self
• 2023Spooktacular! — Self
• 2023The Lost Weekend: A Love Story — Self
• 20222022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self - Presenter
• 2022Alice Cooper - Graspop Metal Meeting — Self
• 2022Alice Cooper - Road (Live at Hellfest 2022) — Self - Vocals
• 2022Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon — Self
• No Cover — Self
• 2022Rock this Town — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Show Business Is My Life (But I Can't Prove It) — Self
• 2022Steve Vai - His First 30 Years: The Documentary — Self (archive footage)
• 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Alice Cooper: Detroit Stories — Self
• 2021Rock Camp: The Movie — Self
• 2021The History of Metal and Horror — Self
• 2020AGFA Mystery Mixtape #5: Haunted Lives — Self
• Laurel Canyon — Self
• Power Hour — Self
• Reunited Apart — Self
• Stars in the House — Self
• 2020The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Zappa — Self (archive footage)
• 2019Alice Cooper: Live from the Astroturf — Self
• 2019Creem: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine — Self - Musician
• 2019House of Cardin — Self
• 2019Suzi Q — Self
• 2019Udo Lindenberg: Volle Fahrt voraus - Begegnungen auf dem Lindischen Ozean — Self
• 2018Chuck Berry: The Original King of Rock 'n' Roll — Self
• 2018Hollywood Vampires Live at Hellfest 2018 — Self
• 2018Malevolent: Unearthing John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness — Self
• The Top Ten Revealed — Self
• 2018Udo Lindenberg - MTV Unplugged 2 - Live vom Atlantik — Self
• 2017Alice Cooper : Wacken 2017 — Self - Vocals
• 2017Alice Cooper: A Paranormal Evening at the Olympia Paris — Self
• 2017Alice Cooper: Rock In Rio 2017 — Self - Vocals
• 2017Cum On Feel The Noize — Self
• 2017Glam Rock at the BBC — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Hired Gun — Self
• 2015Danny Says — Self
• 2015Smoke and Mirrors: The Story of Tom Savini — Self
• 2015To Be Frank: Sinatra at 100 — Self
• 2014Alice Cooper: Montreal 1972 — Self
• 2014Alice Cooper: Raise the Dead (Live from Wacken) — Self - Vocals
• 2014An Honest Liar — Self
• 2014Slash: Raised On the Sunset Strip — Self
• 2014Super Duper Alice Cooper — Self (voice)
• 2014The Art of McCartney — Self
• 2013A Band Called Death — Self
• 2013Alice Cooper: Live at Wacken Open Air 2013 — Self
• 2013Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th — Self
• 2013Great American Rock Anthems: Turn It Up to 11 — Self
• 2013Rock 'N' Roll Exposed: The Photography of Bob Gruen — Self
• 2013Skum Rocks! — Self / Narrator (voice)
• 2013Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon — Self
• 2013The Sunflower Superjam 2012 — Self
• 2013Who Shot Rock & Roll: The Film — Self
• 2012Alice Cooper - AVO Session — Self
• 2012Alice Cooper: Bonnaroo 2012 — Self
• 2012Alice Cooper: Old School: 1964-1974 — Self
• Counting Cars — Self - Host
• 2012Dark Shadows — Self
• 2012From Straight to Bizarre — Self
• 2012Louder Than Love: The Grande Ballroom Story — Self
• 2012Sunset Strip — Self
• The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange — Self
• 2011Alice Cooper: Halloween Night of Fear — Self
• 2011Alice Cooper: Live at The Enmore Theatre — Self
• 2011The Story of Rock 'n' Roll Comics — Self
• 2010Lemmy — Self
• 2010Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy — Self
• 100 Most Shocking Music Moments — Self
• Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self
• Live from Studio Five — Self
• 2009This Beat Goes On: Canadian Pop Music in the 1970s — Self (archive footage)
• 2009VH1's 100 Most Shocking Music Moments — Self
• 2009When Woodstock Was Young — Self
• 2008Promised Land of Heavy Metal — Self (archive footage)
• 2008The Story of the Yardbirds — Self
• 2007Alice Cooper: Special Edition Ep — Self - Vocals
• 2007Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation — Self
• 2007Life After Dead: The Ladies of the Evil Dead — Self
• The Graham Norton Show — Self
• 2007The Midnight Special Legendary Performances: More 1979 — Self
• 200640 Years of Star Trek — Self
• 2006Best Ever Muppet Moments — Self
• The One Show — Self - Guest
• 2005Metal: A Headbanger's Journey — Self
• 2005The Perfect Scary Movie — Self
• 2004Back To The 80's - Live In Concert — Self (archive footage)
• 2004John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies — Self
• 2004Larry presents: Best of The 80s — Self
• 2004Live Eighties — Self
• 2004Rockthology 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 2004Rockthology Presents: Hard 'N' Heavy, Volume 8 — Self
• 2003Alice Cooper - The Ultimate Clip Collection — Self
• Die ultimative Chartshow — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Musical Guest
• 2003Let it Rock: Volume 1 — Self
• 2003Mayor of the Sunset Strip — Self
• 2003Prachtig 80: Volume 2 — Self
• 2002I Love Muppets — Self
• Top Gear — Self - Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car
• 2002When Rock Ruled the World — Self
• 200125 Years of Punk — Self
• 2001Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror — Self
• 2001The Best of Musikladen: Vol. One — Self
• 2000The Filth and the Fury — Self (archive footage)
• 1999På date med Alice - Sofia Eriksson möter Alice Cooper — Self
• Rove — Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn — Self
• Where Are They Now? — Self
• Classic Albums — Self
• 1997Halloween... The Happy Haunting of America! — Self
• Leute heute — Self
• Never Mind the Buzzcocks — Self, Self - Host
• The Frank Skinner Show — Self
• 1994A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who — Self
• Room 101 — Self
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast — Self
• 1992Hard 'N Heavy Volume 15 — Self
• 1992Wayne's World — Self
• 1991Alice Cooper: Prime Cuts — Self
• 1991Slash & Burn: The Freddy Krueger Story — Self
• 1990Alice Cooper: Trashes The World — Self - Vocals
• 1990Hard 'N Heavy Volume 7 — Self
• 1989Hard 'N Heavy Volume 1 — Self
• 1989Hard 'N Heavy Volume 3 — Self
• Heavy Metal Heaven Hosted by Elvira — Himself
• 1988The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years — Self
• 1988The Freddy Krueger Special — Self
• This Morning — Self
• 1987Alice Cooper: The Nightmare Returns — Self - Vocals
• 1987Jake "The Snake" Roberts — Self
• 1987WWE WrestleMania III — Self
• WWF Wrestling Challenge — Self
• 1985Muppet Video: Rock Music with the Muppets — Self (Archive Footage)
• 1982Alice Cooper à Paris — Self
• Riverside — Self
• 1980Roadie — Self
• 1980This Is America Part 2 — Self (archive footage)
• 1979Alice Cooper: The Strange Case of Alice Cooper — Self
• 1978Alice Cooper and Friends — Self
• 1978Grease Day USA — Self
• The Muppet Show — Self - Special Guest Star
• Les Rendez-vous du dimanche — Self
• 1974Good to See You Again, Alice Cooper — Self - Vocals
• Tony Orlando and Dawn — Self
• 1973Rock-a-Bye — Self
• Disco — Self
• 1971Medicine Ball Caravan — Self
• 1970Alice Cooper — Self
• 1970Midsummer Rock: The Cincinnati Pop Festival 1970 — Self
• Top of the Pops — Self - Host
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self