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RECENT CREDITS

Bloodsucking Cinema (TV) Oct. 26, 2007

Halloween (FILM) Aug. 31, 2007

Masters of Horror (TV) Nov. 24, 2006

Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall ... (FILM) Oct. 13, 2006

Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fr... (TV) May. 31, 2006

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HIGHLIGHTS

2006 Once again directed an episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror series, titled Pro-Life

2005 Directed Cigarette Burns, an episode of Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series

2005 Produced the big budget remake of his film, The Fog"

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Film Credits

TV Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)

Role

Category

Nightmares in Red, White and Blue -Cast

Actor

Film

The Secret World of Superfans -Himself

Actor

Film

The Ward

Director

Film

Psychopath

Director, Screenplay

Film

The 13th Apostle

Director, Executive Producer

Film

L.A. Gothic

Director

Film

Escape From New York (Remake)

Executive Producer, Source Material

Film

They Live (Remake)

Executive Producer

Film

Untitled (Prison Riot Project)

Director

Film

Bloodsucking Cinema 2007 -Interviewee

Actor

Halloween 2007

Source Material, Consulting Producer, Characters as Source Material, Theme Song

Film

Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film 2006 -OnCamera Interview

Actor

Film

Real World/Road Rules Challenge: Fresh Meat 2006

Editorial Assistant

Masters of Horror 2005-2006

Director

Pro-Life (2006) -Director

Director

TV Episode

Cigarette Burns (2005) -Director

Director

TV Episode

The Fog 2005

Producer, Source Material

Film

Assault on Precinct 13 2005

Source Material

Film

Boogeymen II: Masters of Horror 2004 -Interviewee

Actor

The 100 Scariest Movie Moments 2004 -Interviewee

Actor

Super Secret Movie Rules 2004 -Interviewee

Actor

The Life of David Gale 2003

Theme Music

Film

Halloween: Resurrection 2002

Characters as Source Material, Theme Song

Film

Scream: The E! True Hollywood Story 2001 -Interviewee

Actor

Hidden Values: The Movies of the Fifties 2001 -Interviewee

Actor

John Carpenter's Ghosts Of Mars 2001

Director, Screenplay, Orchestrations, Music

Film

AFI's 100 Years... 100 Thrills 2001 -Interviewee

Actor

Dario Argento: An Eye For Horror 2001 -Interviewee

Actor

The American Nightmare 2000 -Interviewee

Actor

Faces of Evil 2000 -Interviewee

Actor

Silent Predators 1999

Screenplay

The Directors 1999 -Interviewee

Actor

John Carpenter's Vampires 1998 -music composer, rhythm guitar and synthesizers

Director, Composer, Music

Film

Masters of Fantasy: John Carpenter 1998 -Interviewee

Actor

Halloween: H2O 1998

Other, Characters as Source Material

Film

After Sunset: The Life and Times of the Drive-In 1998 -Interviewee

Actor

John Carpenter's Escape From L.A. 1996 -music score composer

Director, Screenplay, Composer, Characters as Source Material

Film

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers 1995 -Halloween Theme

Other, Characters as Source Material

Film

Village of the Damned 1995

Director, Music

Film

In the Mouth of Madness 1995

Director, Music

Film

John Carpenter Presents Body Bags 1993 -Coroner

Director, Executive Producer, Actor

Memoirs of An Invisible Man 1992

Director

Film

Blood River 1991

Screenplay

El Diablo 1990

Executive Producer, Screenplay

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers 1989 -original

Other

Film

Firstworks 1988

Actor

They Live 1988

Director, Screenplay, Screenplay, Music

Film

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers 1988 -original

Other

Film

Prince of Darkness 1987

Director, Screenplay, Music

Film

The Boy Who Could Fly 1986 -Coupe de Villes Member

Actor

Film

Big Trouble in Little China 1986

Director, Song, Music

Film

Black Moon Rising 1986

Screenplay, From Story

Film

Terror in the Aisles 1984 -music extract, film extracts

Music, Other

Film

The Philadelphia Experiment 1984

Executive Producer

Film

Starman 1984

Director

Film

Christine 1983

Director, Music

Film

Halloween III: Season of the Witch 1982

Producer, Music

Film

The Thing 1982

Director

Film

Halloween II 1981

Producer, Screenplay, Music

Film

Escape From New York 1981

Director, Screenplay, Music

Film

The Fog 1980

Director, Screenplay, Music

Film

Better Late Than Never 1979

Screenplay

Elvis 1979

Director

Someone's Watching Me! 1978

Director, Screenplay

Halloween 1978

Director, Screenplay, Music

Film

Zuma Beach 1978

Screenplay

Eyes of Laura Mars 1978

Screenplay, From Story

Film

Assault on Precinct 13 1976

Director, Screenplay, Song, Music

Film

Dark Star 1973 -music director

Director, Producer, Screenplay, Song, Music, Music

Film

Silence of the Hams

Actor

Film

The Resurrection of Bronco Billy

Screenplay, Editor, Music

Film

John Carpenter Presents Vampires: Los Muertos

Executive Producer

Film

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Highlights

2006 Once again directed an episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror series, titled Pro-Life

2005 Directed Cigarette Burns, an episode of Showtime's "Masters of Horror" series

2005 Produced the big budget remake of his film, The Fog"

1998 Helmed the cutl film, "Vampires," starring James Woods as the leader of a band of vampire hunters

1996 Reteamed with Kurt Russell for sequel, "John Carpenter's Escape From L.A."

1993 Executive produced, directed two segments, composed score and acted in "John Carpenter Presents Body Bags," a Showtime cable TV horror anthology

1990 TV-movie producing debut, executive produced and scripted "El Diablo," a Western comedy on HBO

1987 Returned to low-budget filmmaking with "Prince of Darkness," a sci-fi-tinged supernatural outing

1985 Turned down a chance to direct the Eddie Murphy vehicle "The Golden Child" in favor of helming "Big Trouble in Little China" (date approximate)

1984 Feature debut as executive producer, "The Philadelphia Experiment"

1982 Directed first feature without writing screenplay, "The Thing" (also starring Russell)

1981 First feature starring Kurt Russell, "Escape From New York"

1980 Screen acting debut, "The Fog" (also directed, wrote story and screenplay and composed score); marked the feature starring debut of his then-wife Adrienne Barbeau

1979 Helmed the TV biopic "Elvis," starring Kurt Russell in their first collaboration

1978 TV-movie writing debut (co-scripter), "Zuma Beach"

1978 First mainstream Hollywood feature credit, "Eyes of Laura Mars"; co-wrote story and screenplay

1978 Directed, scripted and composed score for his breakthrough commercial and critical success, "Halloween"

1978 TV-movie directing debut, "Someone's Watching Me!" starring Lauren Hutton; first screen collaboration with future wife Adrienne Barbeau

1977 "Assault" garnered wildly positive audience and press reaction as a surprise addition to the London Film Festival

1976 Wrote, directed and scored second feature, the crime thriller, "Assault on Precinct 13"

1974 Feature directing debut (also screenwriter, producer and composer), "Dark Star," an expanded version of their Master's thesis

1970 With O'Bannon, began work on their Master's thesis project, "Dark Star"

1969 Served as co-writer, editor, composer (and sometimes co-director) on the Oscar-winning short, "The Resurrection of Bronco Billy" (date approximate)

1965 Emerald Productions published the first issue of a film fanzine entitled Fantastic Films Illustrated, which ran for three mimeographed issues; Carpenter drew the covers himself, hand painting t

1956 At age eight, began making his own action-oriented movies using his father's 8mm Brownie camera

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"

1952 At four years old, saw his first theatrical feature, John Huston's "The African Queen"

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"

While a teen, formed own production company, Emerald Productions, for which he purchased two projectors, still cameras, floodlights and a rear projection screen for stop-motion work

By the age of 14, had filmed three additional shorts: "Gorgo vs. Godzilla," featuring clay figures manipulated live; "Terror From Space," a science fiction Western; and "Sorceror From Outer Space," a

Made his "first really promising film", a 40-minute short entitled "Warrior and the Demon"; featured Carpenter's first use of stop-motion animation

Made his last, and reportedly best short, "Gorgon the Space Monster"

Published two one-shot fanzines King Kong Journal and Phantasm Terror Thrills of the Films

Met future collaborator Dan O'Bannon while both were graduate film students at USC

Formed own production company Hye Whitebread Productions with wife Barbeau