John Carpenter

AKA:
John Howard Carpenter , John T Chance , Frank Armitage , Martin Quatermass , Rip Haight James T Chance
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
01/16/1948
Birthplace:
Carthage, New York
biography
For most of his life, John Carpenter had been directing films. Surrounded by artistic influences ever since he was young – his father was an accomplished violinist and his mother routinely took him to movies – Carpenter naturally made the transition from childhood experimenter, to film student, to finally, professional director. Unexpected, however, was his making one the most important horror films ever in "Halloween" (1978), a chilling tale of a serial killer terrorizing a small town that was shot for a mere $300,000 and became one of the most profitable films of all time. Without stars, Continued
Credits
Characters as Source Material
2007
Consulting Producer
2007
Source Material
2007
(TV Show)
2005-2006
Director
2006
Director
2005
Source Material
2005
Producer
2005
Source Material
2005
Characters as Source Material
2002
Characters as Source Material
1998
Characters as Source Material
1996
Characters as Source Material
1995
Director
1984
Director
1982
Screenplay
1981
screenplay
1981
Director
1981
Director
1980
Screenplay
1980
screenplay
1978
From Story
1978
Screenplay
Screenplay
Producer
Director
Director
screenplay
From Story
screenplay
screenplay
Executive Producer
milestones
Year
Milestone
1952 
At four years old, saw his first theatrical feature, John Huston's "The African Queen"
1953 
Interest in film ignited by a screening of Jack Arnold's black-and-white 3-D sci-fi feature, "It Came From Outer Space"
1956 
At age eight, began making his own action-oriented movies using his father's 8mm Brownie camera
 
Moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky
 
Graduated to using a Eumig 650 8mm camera
 
First substantial film, the 40-minute featurette, "Revenge of the Colossal Beasts"
Continued