Birthday
1948/01/16 (77 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Carthage, New York, USA
Also know as
Martin Quatermass, Frank Armitage, John T. Chance, Rip Haight, John Howard Carpenter, ジョン・カーペンター, ジョン・ハワード・カーペンター, 존 카펜터, 约翰·卡朋特
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 1...Read more
(1978) Halloween
as Paul (voice) / Michael Myers (uncredited)
(1994) The Silence of the Hams
as Trenchcoat Man / Gimp
(2005) The Perfect Scary Movie
as Self
(2021) The History of Metal and Horror
as Self
(2002) Scoring Resident Evil
as Self (archive footage)
(1993) Body Bags
as Coroner
Carpenter on Quatermass
as Self
(2022) In Search of Darkness: Part III
as Self
(2009) Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
as Self
(2009) Tales from the Script
as Self
(2008) Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
as Self
(2008) Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
as Self
(1988) The Making of 'They Live'
as Self
(1976) Assault on Precinct 13
as Gang Member (uncredited)
(2004) John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies
as Self
(2008) Pure Cinema: Through the Eyes of Hitchcock
as Self
(2006) Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film
as Self
(1998) The Thing: Terror Takes Shape
as Self
(2010) Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star
as Himself (voice)
(2011) The Original Monster Mash
as Self
(2022) Studio 666
as Engineer
(2011) Charlie Brown: Blockhead's Revenge
as Self/Host
(2003) An Opera of Violence
as Self - Filmmaker
(2003) Halloween: A Cut Above the Rest
as Self
(2007) Bloodsucking Cinema
as Self
(2003) Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer?
as Self (voice)
(1999) Halloween: Unmasked
as Self
(2006) Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon
as Self
(2009) Monsterland
as Self
(1986) Stephen King's World of Horror
as Self
(2004) Christine: Ignition
as Self
(2004) Christine: Fast and Furious
as Self
(2004) Christine: Finish Line
as Self
(2011) Nightmare Factory
as Self
(2016) It Takes a Village: The Making of Village of the Damned
as Self
(2009) Fasten Your Seatbelt: The Thrilling Art of Alfred Hitchcock
as Self
Hollywood Trailblazer: The Debra Hill Story
as ---
(2007) Commemoration: Howard Hawks' 'Rio Bravo'
as Self
(2006) Working with a Master: John Carpenter
as Self (archive footage)
(2014) Why Horror?
as Self
(2012) The Birds: Hitchcock's Monster Movie
as Self
(2008) Bernard Herrmann: Hitchcock's Maestro
as Self
(2000) The American Nightmare
as Self
(2022) Halloween in Hollywood
as Self
(2001) Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror
as Self
The Reality Trip
as self
(1986) The Boy Who Could Fly
as The Coupe de Villes
(2001) Red Desert Nights: Making Ghosts of Mars
as Self
(2017) Monstres, l'ennemi de l'intérieur
as Self
(2006) Big John
as Self
(2016) The Puppet Man
as The Taxi Driver
(2018) Henchman: The Al Leong Story
as Self
(1982) Take One: Fear on Film
as Self
(1991) Fear in the Dark
as Self
(1995) After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater
as Self
(2024) Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
as Self
(2000) Mario Bava: Maestro of the Macabre
as Self
(2004) Hollywood's Creepiest Creatures
as Self
(2009) The Master's Touch: Hitchcock's Signature Style
as Self
The Thing Expanded
as Self
(2001) Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties
as Self
(1989) Stephen King's World of Horror
as Self
(2008) In the Master's Shadow: Hitchcock's Legacy
as Self
(2017) Dark Glamour: The Blood and Guts of Hammer Productions
as Self - Filmmaker
(2000) Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven'
as Self
(1990) Horror Cafe
as Self
(2006) Born to Controversy: The Roddy Piper Story
as Self
(1989) First Works
as Self
(2015) Jean-Michel Jarre: The Rise of Electronic Music
as Self
(2006) Halloween: 25 Years of Terror
as Self
(2018) John Carpenter: Live Retrospective
as Self
(2002) Masters of Horror
as Self
(2005) Hollywood's Greatest Villains
as Self
(1982) The Thing
as Norwegian (video footage) (uncredited)
(2019) In Search of Darkness
as Self
(1974) Dark Star
as Talby Voice
(1980) The Fog
as Bennett
(1981) Escape from New York
as Secret Service #2 / Helicopter Pilot / Violin Player
(1984) Starman
as Man in Helicopter (uncredited)
(1986) Big Trouble in Little China
as Worker in Chinatown (uncredited)
(1988) They Live
as Voice That Says 'Sleep'
(1992) Memoirs of an Invisible Man
as Helicopter Pilot
(1995) Village of the Damned
as Man at Gas Station Phone
(2016) John Carpenter: Live At Primavera Sound 2016
as Self - Keyboards
(2002) Tales from the Mist: Inside 'The Fog'
as Self
(2022) In Search of Tomorrow
as Self - Interviewee
(1980) Fear on Film: Inside 'The Fog'
as Self
(2019) 1982: Hollywood Summer
as Self
(2019) The Rise of the Synths
as Narrator (voice)
(2003) The Wages of Sin
as Self - Filmmaker
(2020) AGFA Mystery Mixtape #4: Follow Your Own Star
as Self
(1982) The Making of 'The Thing'
as Self
(2020) In Search of Darkness: Part II
as Self
(2006) Amazing! Exploring the Far Reaches of Forbidden Planet
as Self
(2010) Halloween: The Inside Story
as Self
(2003) Something to Do with Death
as Self - Filmmaker
(2000) Scream and Scream Again: A History of the Slasher Film
as Self
(2005) Snake Plissken: Man of Honor
as Self
(2021) Biography: 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper
as Self
(2011) The Future of Fear
as Self
(1994) Masters of Illusion: The Wizards of Special Effects
as Self
(2024) In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994
as Self - Interviewee
(2011) Scary Girl
as ---
(2008) Partners in Crime: Hitchcock's Collaborators
as Self
(2014) The Director's Chair
as Self
(1958) The Rifleman
as ---
(2002) Through the Night with...
as Self
(2015) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
(2010) A History of Horror
as Self
(2004) 100 Scariest Movie Moments
as Self
(2023) Amityville: An Origin Story
as Self
(2019) The Movies That Made Us
as Self (Archival Footage)
(2022) Charles Band’s Full Moon Freakshow
as ---
(2024) John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A.
as Self
(2014) The Real History of Science Fiction
as Self
(2015) Track Stories
as Self
(1955) Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as Self