John Carpenter
Directing
Born January 16, 1948 · Carthage, New York, USA
Biography
An American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, composer, and occasional actor. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres in his four-decade career, his name is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction. Most films in Carpenter's career were initially commercial and critical failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s have come to be viewed as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmak…
Known For · 40 titles
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
The Rifleman
The Thing
Halloween
Through the Night with...
The Boy Who Could Fly
The Fog
The Movies That Made Us
Crossbow
They Live
Big Trouble in Little China
Escape from New York
Carpenter
100 Years of Horror
The Real History of Science Fiction
John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
Starman
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not
Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
Village of the Damned
Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
The Director's Chair
Studio 666
100 Scariest Movie Moments
Amityville: An Origin Story
A History of Horror
Dark Star
Assault on Precinct 13
The Silence of the Hams
Body Bags
Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
Track Stories
Stephen King's World of Horror
In Search of Tomorrow
Nightmare Factory
Hollywood's Greatest Villains
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
The Thing Expanded
The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style