Larry Cohen (born Lawrence G. Cohen on July 15, 1938, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American film producer, director, and screenwriter. Although he writes and produces for others, he is best known for directing his own low-budget but inventive horror films and thrillers. Cohen moved to the Riverdale section of the Bronx at an early age, eventually majoring in film at the City College of New York.

Larry Neil Cohen (born April 14, 1959, New York City) is an American bridge player and writer. He finished third in the World Team Olympiad in 2000 and is a WBF World Life Master.

He authored To Bid or Not to Bid: The Law of Total Tricks ; it was the best-selling bridge book of the 1990s with more than 55,000 copies sold in a total of six different languages. It and its sequel Follow the Law deal with the "Law of Total Tricks". He is well known for his former playing partnership with Marty Bergen whose ideas meshed well with his own. His current bridge partner is David Berkowitz.

He learned to play bridge at age 6 from his grandparents, started playing duplicate at age 14, and began playing in tournaments at age 15. He became an American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) Life Master at age 17.

He currently resides with his wife, Maria, in Boca Raton, Florida. He works as a bridge teacher, often on cruise ships. He writes a monthly column, The Real Deal in the ACBL's Bridge Bulletin.

Larry Cohen was born July 15, 1938, in Kingston, New York, a small town north of New York City (source: the DVD of Stuff, The (1985) released by Anchor Bay). At a young age, his family moved to the Riverdale section of the Bronx, and he eventually majored in film at the historic City College of New York, graduating in 1963. An independent maverick who got his start in studio-based television, he is best known for inventive low-budget horror films that combine scathing social commentary with the requisite scares and occasional laughs. He was also a major player in the Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. Later in his career, he became a sought-after screenplay writer. Although not very prolific in his screen writing, these works still combine provocative social commentary--but with more conventional storytelling.