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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…

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Highest Rated Movies

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	--
2011		The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style	Actor	--
2009		Riot (John Carpenter's Riot) (Scared Straight)	Director	--
2009	100%	Nightmares in Red, White and Blue	Actor	--
2009		Monsterland	Actor	--
2009	75%	Tales From the Script	Actor	--
2008		Starz Inside: Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX	Actor	--
2008		Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown	Actor	--
2007	25%	Halloween	Producer	$58.2M
2007		Bloodsucking Cinema	Actor	--
2007		Starz Inside: Bloodsucking Cinema	Actor	--
2006		Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film	Actor	--
2005		Tales from the Crypt: From Comic Books to Television	Actor	--
2005	4%	The Fog	Screenwriter Producer	$29.5M
2004		Cinemaker	Actor	--
2002		John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies	Actor	--
2002		Boogeymen II: Masters of Horror	Actor	--
2002		John Carpenter - The Man and His Movies	Actor	--
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	--
1999		Silent Predators	Screenwriter	--
1999	64%	Cradle Will Rock	William Randolph Hearst	--
1998	33%	Vampires	Director	--
1997		Dario Argento - An Eye for Horror	Actor	--
1996		100 Years of Horror	Actor	--
1996	53%	Escape from L.A.	Director	--
1995		After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater	Actor	--
1995	30%	Village of the Damned	Man at Phone Booth Director	--
1994	0%	Il Silenzio dei prosciutti (The Silence of the Hams)	Trench Coat Man	--
1994	47%	In the Mouth of Madness	Director	--
1993	60%	Body Bags	Actor Director	--
1992	23%	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	Director Helicopter Pilot	--
1989		First Works	Actor	--
1988	89%	They Live	Director Screenwriter	--
1988	67%	The House on Carroll Street	Gateman	--
1987	47%	Prince of Darkness	Director	--
1987		The Kid Brother	Grandfather	--
1986	71%	The Boy Who Could Fly	The Coupe De Villes	--
1986	82%	Big Trouble in Little China	Director	--
1986	88%	Something Wild	Actor	--
1984	79%	Starman	Director Man in Helicopter	--
1983	68%	Christine	Director	--
1982	88%	Tootsie	First Actor	--
1982	79%	The Thing	Director	--
1981	30%	Halloween II	Producer	--
1981	83%	Escape from New York	Screenwriter Director	--
1980	68%	The Fog	Bennett (assistant at the church) (uncredited) Director Screenwriter	--
1979		Elvis (Elvis the Movie)	Director	--
1978	94%	Halloween	Screenwriter Director	--
1978	47%	Eyes of Laura Mars	Screenwriter	--
1978		Someone's Watching Me! (High Rise)	Director	--
1976	90%	Network	George Bosch	--
1976	97%	Assault on Precinct 13	Director Screenwriter	--
1974	79%	Dark Star	Producer Screenwriter Director	--

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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)