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John Carpenter
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American filmmaker, composer and actor (born 1948)
John Carpenter is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor born in 1948 who has created influential work across multiple creative roles in entertainment. He matters because of his significant contributions to film, music, and performance throughout his career.
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Person · Open Library
- Died
- 1621
- Works
- 99
Top works
- The plaine mans spirituall plough
- A preparatiue to contentation
- Storm King Comics Dark & Twisted : Death Mask Volume 2
- John Carpenter Sheet Music Collection
- Eric and His Invisible Potion
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Film & TV
Directing · Carthage, New York, USA
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…
Known for
- The Thing Expanded — Self2026
- Carpenter — Self (archive footage)2026
- In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999 — Self2025
- I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not — Self (archive footage)2025
- Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters — Self2024
- In Search of Darkness: 1990-1994 — Self2024
- John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A. — Self2024
- Amityville: An Origin Story — Self2023
- In Search of Darkness: Part III — Self2022
- Studio 666 — Engineer2022
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Los Angeles
- Active from
- 1948
Discography
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- Listeners
- 451,243
- Total plays
- 6,205,285
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John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor, widely known for his work in the horror, action, and science fiction genres, particularly during the 1970s and 1980s. He is regarded as a significant figure in the horror genre. In 2019, the French Directors' Guild honored him with the Golden Coach Award at the Cannes Film Festival, recognizing him as a "creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions." On April 3, 2025, he received a star on
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 200,169x
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· 2021 · cited 41,509x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,302x
- Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment
· 2007 · cited 34,187x
- The MOS 36-ltem Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36)
· 1992 · cited 28,819x
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.theofficialjohncarpenter.com
- Image
- Portrait of John Carpenter.jpg
- Height
- 180
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- John Carpenter
- date of birth
- 1948-01-16
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
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- 414222
- name in native language
- John Carpenter
- birth name
- John Howard Carpenter
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John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) 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.
Carpenter's early films included critical and commercial successes such as Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). Though he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker, his other productions from the 1970s and the 1980s only later came to be considered cult classics; these include Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Thing (1982), Christine (1983), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Prince of Darkness (1987), They Live (1988), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), and Escape from L.A. (1996). He returned to the Halloween franchise as a composer and executive producer on Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022).