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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In Search of Darkness
actor
2019
The Ward
director
2011
Dead On: The Life and Cinema of George A. Romero
actor
2008
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
actor
2008
Halloween
writer
2007
The Fog
writer
2006
Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
actor
2006
Assault on Precinct 13
writer
2005
Ghosts of Mars
writer
2001
Ghosts of Mars
director
2001
The American Nightmare
actor
2000
Vampires
director
1999
Escape from L.A.
director
1996
Escape from L.A.
writer
1996
In the Mouth of Madness
director
1995
Village of the Damned
director
1995
Village of the Damned
actor
1995
The Silence of the Hams
actor
1994
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
director
1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
writer
1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
actor
1992
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
writer
1991
They Live
writer
1989
They Live
director
1989
Prince of Darkness
writer
1988
Prince of Darkness
director
1988
The Boy Who Could Fly
actor
1987
Big Trouble in Little China
director
1986
Big Trouble in Little China
actor
1986
Black Moon Rising
writer
1986
Starman
actor
1985
Starman
director
1985
Christine
director
1984
Halloween II
writer
1982
Eyes of Laura Mars
writer
1982
The Thing
actor
1982
The Thing
director
1982
Escape from New York
actor
1981
Escape from New York
writer
1981
Escape from New York
director
1981
The Fog
writer
1980
The Fog
actor
1980
The Fog
director
1980
Dark Star
director
1980
Dark Star
writer
1980
Dark Star
actor
1980
Halloween
writer
1979
Halloween
actor
1979
Halloween
director
1979
Assault on Precinct 13
writer
1979
Assault on Precinct 13
director
1979
Better Late Than Never
writer
1979
Network
actor
1977
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director
1963
Terror from Space
director
1963
Revenge of the Colossal Beasts
director
1962