John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. Although he worked in various film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. He is generally recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award, lauding him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". Carpenter's early films included box office and critical successes like Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). His other productions from the 1970s and the 1980s only later came to be considered cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. These include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983...
Filmography
Titles and credit roles
Director credits
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The Ward
Pro-Life
Cigarette Burns
Ghosts of Mars
Vampires
Escape from L.A.
Village of the Damned
In the Mouth of Madness
Body Bags
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
They Live
Prince of Darkness
Big Trouble in Little China
Starman
Christine
The Thing
Escape from New York
The Fog
Elvis
Someone's Watching Me!
Halloween
Assault on Precinct 13
Dark Star
Actor credits
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The Thing Expanded
In Search of Darkness: Part III
Halloween in Hollywood
In Search of Darkness: Part II
AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
In Search of Darkness
Henchman: The Al Leong Story
John Carpenter: Live Retrospective
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned
Jean-Michel Jarre: A Journey into Sound
Charlie Brown: Blockhead's Revenge
Nightmare Factory
Halloween: The Inside Story
Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
Big John
Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
Working with a Master: John Carpenter
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
The Perfect Scary Movie
Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
Christine: Ignition
Christine: Finish Line
Christine: Fast and Furious
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies- REReturn to 'Escape from New York'
The Wages of Sin
An Opera of Violence
Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?
Masters of Horror
Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars
Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film
Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre
The American Nightmare
Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
Fear in the Dark
First Works
Stephen King's World of Horror
The Making of 'They Live'
The Making of 'The Thing'- BRBringing A Legend To Life
