John Carpenter

Highest Rated:
100% Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)
Lowest Rated:
0% Il Silenzio dei prosciutti (The Silence of the Hams) (1994)
Birthday:
Jan 16, 1948
Birthplace:
Carthage, New York, USA
Bio:
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, film score composer and occasional actor. Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, and is considered one of the most accomplished and influential horror and science fiction directors in…

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 0% - 100%
Number of Movies: 54
Box Office Since 2001: $95.0M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2011 32% The Ward
  • Director
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2011 The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
  • Actor
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2009 Riot (John Carpenter's Riot) (Scared Straight)
  • Director
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2009 100% Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
  • Actor
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2009 Monsterland
  • Actor
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2009 75% Tales From the Script
  • Actor
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2008 Starz Inside: Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
  • Actor
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2008 Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
  • Actor
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2007 25% Halloween
  • Producer
$58.2M
2007 Bloodsucking Cinema
  • Actor
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2007 Starz Inside: Bloodsucking Cinema
  • Actor
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2006 Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
  • Actor
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2005 Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television
  • Actor
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2005 4% The Fog
  • Screenwriter
  • Producer
$29.5M
2004 Cinemaker
  • Actor
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2002 John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
  • Actor
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2002 Boogeymen II: Masters of Horror
  • Actor
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2002 John Carpenter - The Man and His Movies
  • Actor
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2001 21% Ghosts of Mars
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
$7.3M
2000 67% The American Nightmare - A Celebration of Films from Hollywood's Golden Age of Fright
  • Actor
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1999 Silent Predators
  • Screenwriter
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1999 64% Cradle Will Rock
  • William Randolph Hearst
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1998 33% Vampires
  • Director
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1997 Dario Argento - An Eye for Horror
  • Actor
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1996 100 Years of Horror
  • Actor
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1996 53% Escape from L.A.
  • Director
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1995 After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater
  • Actor
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1995 30% Village of the Damned
  • Man at Phone Booth
  • Director
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1994 0% Il Silenzio dei prosciutti (The Silence of the Hams)
  • Trench Coat Man
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1994 47% In the Mouth of Madness
  • Director
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1993 60% Body Bags
  • Actor
  • Director
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1992 23% Memoirs of an Invisible Man
  • Director
  • Helicopter Pilot
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1989 First Works
  • Actor
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1988 89% They Live
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1988 67% The House on Carroll Street
  • Gateman
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1987 47% Prince of Darkness
  • Director
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1987 The Kid Brother
  • Grandfather
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1986 71% The Boy Who Could Fly
  • The Coupe De Villes
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1986 82% Big Trouble in Little China
  • Director
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1986 88% Something Wild
  • Actor
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1984 79% Starman
  • Director
  • Man in Helicopter
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1983 68% Christine
  • Director
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1982 88% Tootsie
  • First Actor
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1982 79% The Thing
  • Director
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1981 30% Halloween II
  • Producer
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1981 83% Escape from New York
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1980 68% The Fog
  • Bennett (assistant at the church) (uncredited)
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1979 Elvis (Elvis the Movie)
  • Director
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1978 94% Halloween
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1978 47% Eyes of Laura Mars
  • Screenwriter
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1978 Someone's Watching Me! (High Rise)
  • Director
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1976 90% Network
  • George Bosch
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1976 97% Assault on Precinct 13
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
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1974 79% Dark Star
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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John Carpenter Trivia

John Carpenter likes to use the names of real people from his past (eg. school friends & ex-girlfriends) as the names of characters in his films. One such example is Ben Tramer from Halloween (with whom he went to school). Another is Jamie Lee's character, Elizabeth, in The Fog, who was an old girlfriend of Carpenter's.
- submitted by mirabella 1 (3 years ago)

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