John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". On April 3, 2025, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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The Thing Expanded
actor
2026
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not
actor
2025
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
actor
2024
Halloween Ends
writer
2022
Studio 666
actor
2022
In Search of Tomorrow
actor
2022
Halloween Kills
writer
2021
The History of Metal and Horror
actor
2021
In Search of Darkness: Part II
actor
2020
In Search of Darkness
actor
2019
Halloween
writer
2018
Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
actor
2017
Why Horror?
actor
2014
Nightmare Factory
actor
2011
The Ward
director
2010
Halloween II
writer
2009
Tales from the Script
actor
2009
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
actor
2008
In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
actor
2008
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
actor
2008
Halloween
writer
2007
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
actor
2006
Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
actor
2006
Cigarette Burns
director
2005
The Perfect Scary Movie
actor
2005
The Fog
writer
2005
Assault on Precinct 13
writer
2005
Halloween: Resurrection
writer
2002
Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars
actor
2001
Ghosts of Mars
writer
2001
Ghosts of Mars
director
2001
Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film
actor
2000
The American Nightmare
actor
2000
Vampires
director
1998
The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
actor
1998
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
writer
1998
Escape from L.A.
writer
1996
Escape from L.A.
director
1996
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
writer
1995
Village of the Damned
director
1995
In the Mouth of Madness
director
1995
Body Bags
actor
1993
Body Bags
director
1993
Guys and Dolls: Off the Record
actor
1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
director
1992
Blood River
writer
1991
El Diablo
writer
1990
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
writer
1989
They Live
writer
1988
They Live
director
1988
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
writer
1988
Prince of Darkness
writer
1987
Prince of Darkness
director
1987
Big Trouble in Little China
director
1986
Black Moon Rising
writer
1986
Starman
director
1984
Christine
director
1983
The Thing
actor
1982
The Thing
director
1982
Take One: Fear on Film
actor
1982
Halloween II
writer
1981
Escape from New York
director
1981
Escape from New York
writer
1981
Escape from New York
actor
1981
The Fog
director
1980
The Fog
actor
1980
The Fog
writer
1980
Elvis
director
1979
Halloween
director
1978
Halloween
writer
1978
Zuma Beach
writer
1978
Eyes of Laura Mars
writer
1978
Network
actor
1976
Assault on Precinct 13
writer
1976
Assault on Precinct 13
director
1976
The Silence
actor
1975
Dark Star
writer
1974
Dark Star
director
1974
Dark Star
actor
1974
Captain Voyeur
director
1969
Captain Voyeur
writer
1969
Escape From New York
writer
John Carpenter: Live From Los Angeles - Halloween Night
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