Carpenter was born on January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean ("née" Carter) and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor. He and his family relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky during 1953. He was interested in films from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low-budget horror films such as "The Thing from Another World" and high-budget science fiction like "Forbidden Planet", and began filming horror short films with 8 mm film even before starting high school. He attended Western Kentucky University, where his father chaired the music department, then transferred to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts during 1968, but quit to make his first feature film.
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John Carpenter | Early life
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1982
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It tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", a parasitic extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates other organisms.
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who wrote it?
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Bill Lancaster.
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who is the director?
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John Carpenter
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Carpenter was born on January 16, 1948 in Carthage, New York, the son of Milton Jean ("née" Carter) and Howard Ralph Carpenter, a music professor. He and his family relocated to Bowling Green, Kentucky during 1953. He was interested in films from an early age, particularly the westerns of Howard Hawks and John Ford, as well as 1950s low-budget horror films such as "The Thing from Another World" and high-budget science fiction like "Forbidden Planet", and began filming horror short films with 8 mm film even before starting high school. He attended Western Kentucky University, where his father chaired the music department, then transferred to the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts during 1968, but quit to make his first feature film.
John Carpenter | Early life
John Carpenter (born 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and film music composer. John Carpenter may also refer to:
John Carpenter (disambiguation) | Introduction
Born in King's Lynn, Norfolk, Carpenter attended the Old Vic Theatre School before starting an acting career by working in repertory theatre.
Richard Carpenter (screenwriter) | Early life
He received his master's degree in Economics from Baylor University in 1950, and in 1954 he relocated to Florida to pursue further studies at the University of Florida.
Thomas G. Carpenter | Early life
John Carpenter was born in Washington, DC in 1884, the oldest child of noted travel writer Frank G. Carpenter and Joanna Carpenter (née Condict), and the brother of future author and folklorist Frances Carpenter. Carpenter traveled widely in the company of his family throughout his childhood, before matriculating at Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1907. Carpenter placed third in the 1908 collegiate national track and field championship 440 yard, while running for Cornell.
John Carpenter (athlete) | Early Life
Born in Sioux City, Iowa, Carpenter attended the University of Iowa and received a doctorate degree in experimental psychology from Florida State University. He moved to Orange County, California in 1960 and worked as a psychologist.
Paul B. Carpenter | Early life
The grandson of a film sound engineer, Carpenter was born in Van Nuys, California in 1950 to a family of six. After his parents divorced in 1960, he moved with his mother and 4 siblings to Orange County, where he took up Super 8 films as a hobby. He enrolled in San Diego State University to study television directing, but later changed his major to English. To pay for school, he worked at a local public broadcasting channel, where he learned the ropes of documentary filmmaking. After graduating, he moved back to Orange County, where he shot educational films and documentaries.
Russell Carpenter | Early life and education
John Carpenter is an American film director, producer, writer and composer. He has contributed to many projects as either the producer, writer, director, actor, composer or a combination of the five.
John Carpenter filmography | Introduction
Carpenter was born on 7 December 1946 in Oxford, England.
Christine Carpenter (historian) | Early life
Carpenter was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois on January 26, 1971.
Jana Carpenter | Early life
His father is listed as Richard Carpenter and his mother as Christina. His father, Richard or Renaud Carpenter, is believed to have been born about 1335–1337 in or of Grand Pont, Cambrai, France. He may have been alive as late as 1412 in London. He married Christina, last name unknown, who was of London. Their known children were:
John Carpenter (town clerk) | Early life and ancestry
Carpenter was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, Norfolk, where he was a member of Farfield (1958–1963), and then at Cambridge.
Roger Carpenter | Early life
Carpenter was born to Charles Francis Carpenter and Marion Jewett Carpenter in Boonton, New Jersey on August 1, 1921. His father's active interest in the Civil War piqued his own childhood interest and later career focus. After attending St. John's School (now Wilson School) in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey,Carpenter graduated from Morristown School in Morristown, New Jersey in 1938. He completed his bachelor's degree at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1942. Carpenter attended Harvard through a scholarship from the Harvard Club of New Jersey. During his studies at the university, Carpenter played on the rowing team, and he participated in the glee club.
John A. Carpenter | Early life and education
Carpenter was born in Newcastle, New South Wales in 1950. He moved to Sydney as a teenager to train as a painter. He studied production at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1968 and 1969. He also studied at Motley Theatre Design Course in London in 1971.
Kim Carpenter | Early life
He was born in Seekonk, Massachusetts to Edmund Carpenter, a blacksmith, and Lemira Tiffany Carpenter. He was a direct descendant of William Carpenter, who came to Rhode Island in 1638. He attended Seekonk Academy and prepared for college, but instead became an apprentice under Gilbert Congdon.
Francis W. Carpenter | Early life and education
Carpenter was born in Louisa County, Virginia, the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Carpenter. He attended Clifton Forge High School in Clifton Forge, Virginia.
Hunter Carpenter | Early life
Born in St. Paul, Minnesota and raised in McClusky, North Dakota, John Hanson received his B.A. from Carleton College and did postgraduate studies in architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
John Hanson (director) | Early life
Carpenter was born July 31, 1802 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, a son of Conrad and Ann (Adams) Carpenter, of English-American heritage. He was educated at Germantown Academy, in Germantown, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a classical education which prepared him for his professional and scientific pursuits.
George Washington Carpenter | Early life and education
Carpenter was born on February 24, 1960 in Milwaukee and graduated from Casimir Pulaski High School. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison after studying at its La Follette Institute.
Tim Carpenter | Early life, education, and career
Carpenter was a son of Samuel and Sarah (Montgomery) Carpenter, of Palmetto, Tennessee. He was schooled in a private institution at Palmetto, and attended the State University at Bloomington, Indiana, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Phi and graduated in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Charles T. Carpenter | Early life
John was born in Drogheda, Ireland in 2000.
John Farrelly (director) | Early life
Carpenter was born in Rochester, New York. He graduated from the University of Rochester with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1985 and then served in the United States Navy from 1985 until 1991.
Chuck Carpenter | Early life
Carpenter was born on May 1, 1886 in Stanford, Kentucky, a son of James and Amanda Carpenter. In 1901, a year after the death of his father, his mother moved the family to Indianapolis, Indiana, where William worked at odd jobs during the day and attended public school at night.
Charles William Carpenter | Early life
Before applying, O'Bannon was pursuing a psychology degree. It was at USC that he met John Carpenter and collaborated with him on the science fiction student film "Dark Star" (1974).
Dan O'Bannon | Early life
Carpenter was born in Bennington, Vermont, where he attended Bennington High School. He is bisexual. Carpenter resides in Warwick, New York.
Carleton Carpenter | Early and personal life
Born near Harford, Pennsylvania, Carpenter attended the common schools, and was graduated from Harford Academy in 1853. His parents were Asahel Carpenter and Amanda M. Thayer and he is a descendant of the immigrant William Carpenter (1605 England - 1658/1659 Rehoboth, Massachusetts) the founder of the Rehoboth Carpenter family who came to America in the mid-1630s.
Cyrus C. Carpenter | Early life
Born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1906, Carpenter was an ordained Methodist pastor. He was a graduate of Bucknell University and Drew University.
Charles I. Carpenter | Early life and education
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked with various film genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. Most films of 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 considered as cult classics, and he has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker. The cult classics that Carpenter has directed 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), and "In the Mouth of Madness" (1995).
John Carpenter | Introduction
Carpenter attended St. Charles grade school, and St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Kansas City, Missouri. At North Kansas City High School, his hard work and determination earned him a spot as a National Merit Scholar and he received a scholarship to the University of Southern California. While at school in Los Angeles, Carpenter interned for four-term U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. He served as Financial Director and later President of the USC College Democrats. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Political Science and a minor in International Relations. After graduation, he returned to the state and married his wife Midori.
Jon Carpenter | Early Life
Frank T. Johns was born February 23, 1889. He was a carpenter by trade and made his home in Portland, Oregon.
Frank T. Johns | Early life
Carpenter was the son of a London tradesman. He received no formal schooling, but by self-study he learned to read and write, and taught himself several ancient and modern languages. At an early age he began working for a bookseller in Finsbury, first as an errand boy, and then as an apprentice.
William Carpenter (1797–1874) | Early life
On "They Live" she was also associate producer. She co-created the comic book series "Asylum", with which Carpenter is involved. Carpenter appeared in an episode of Animal Planet's "Animal Icons" titled "It Came from Japan", where he discussed his love and admiration for the original "Godzilla" film.
John Carpenter | Personal life
Phelan was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1934. He first apprenticed as a carpenter at the age of 15. When Phelan was eighteen, he and his family immigrated to Canada. While there, he was able to obtain his first professional job at the Crest Theatre in Toronto as an assistant stage carpenter.
Brian Phelan | Early life
Carpenter grew up in the village of Brockham, Surrey, as the younger of two brothers born to George and Audrey Carpenter. He attended Brockham Village School before finishing his studies at Sondes Place School.
Ron Carpenter (designer) | Early life
Carpenter met his future wife, actress Adrienne Barbeau, on the set of his 1978 television film "Someone's Watching Me!". Carpenter was married to Barbeau from January 1, 1979, to 1984. During their marriage, Barbeau starred in "The Fog", and also appeared in "Escape from New York". The couple had one son, John Howard Jr. (born May 7, 1984), nicknamed "Cody" to avoid confusion with his father. Carpenter has been married to producer Sandy King since 1990. King produced Carpenter's later films "In the Mouth of Madness", "Village of the Damned", "Vampires", and "Ghosts of Mars". She earlier had been the script supervisor for his films "Starman", "Big Trouble in Little China", "Prince of Darkness", and "They Live".
John Carpenter | Personal life
John Carpenter Carter was born in Waynesboro, Georgia on December 19, 1837. He attended the University of Virginia from 1854 to 1856. Carter studied law under Judge Abram Carruthers at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, was an instructor at the school after his graduation, and married the judge's daughter. He was practicing law in Memphis, Tennessee when the Civil War began.
John C. Carter | Early life
Carpenter was of Native American and Spanish heritage. He was born on an Indian reservation where as a teenager he often earned money as a migrant worker harvesting apricots. Carpenter served in the U.S. Army and was married twice. Following his retirement from the Army he took a job marketing video technology, achieving expertise in that field and becoming head of the video wing of a new Japanese electronics company debuting in the United States called Sonycom, later to be known simply as Sony. John had a child, John Michael Carpenter, from his first marriage who was adopted with the last name of Merrill.
John Henry Carpenter | Biography
Carpenter was born on June 9, 1911, in Ely, Nevada. He married Lucille Swenson and had a son, John Loder Carpenter. He served in the military when he was just a teenager.
A. J. Carpenter | Biography
Born and raised in Brockport, New York, Carpenter became involved in the theatre at age 12. In his hometown, SUNY Brockport offered a Theatre Arts major and produced a semi-professional summer theatre where he worked as a backstage hand and as a young actor with such touring stars as Peggy Wood, Ann Harding, John Kerr and Leo G. Carroll. He enrolled in Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts as an undergraduate designer and director. He graduated as a director and actor and spent the next several years acting, singing and dancing with the Oregon and San Diego Shakespeare Festivals, the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and with the American Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford, CT.
Larry Carpenter | Early life and career
James Carpenter was the second eldest son of eight children born to Edward Carpenter 2nd and Anna Maria (Mary) Howey. He was born in Chesterfield, Kent County, Maryland and in 1843 his family moved to Philadelphia where they attended Trinity Episcopal Church in West Philadelphia.
James Edward Carpenter | Early life
He married on June 2, 1877 in Clark County, Arkansas, to Jane Elizabeth Wallis, who was born in August 1857 in Missouri; they were the parents of eight children.
Flavius Josephus Carpenter | Early life
John T. "Jack" Carpenter (born September 18, 1984) is an American actor.
Jack Carpenter (actor) | Introduction
He was born in St. Kitts. His first visit to New York was when he was 16 years old. He then moved west and worked as a commercial carpenter. He attended Brooks Institute, Santa Barbara.
Wayne Lawrence | Early life and education
James Ross Carpenter was born in Monmouth, Illinois, to George Daniel Carpenter and Margery Ann Pollock on August 7, 1867. He was educated in public schools in Illinois and Kansas and graduated from Monmouth College and the National Normal University. On September 15, 1887, he married Fanny May Russell and later had three children with her.
James R. Carpenter | Early life
Carpenter is from Northampton, Massachusetts. His father, Tom, worked as a computer program analyst for the Department of Veterans Affairs, while his mother, Gail, served as an administrative assistant for the Massachusetts Audubon Society. In 1986, he enrolled at Rutgers University and graduated in 1990 with a degree in economics. In January 1991, he joined the Internal Revenue Service after completing government exams and tests. In November 1996, Carpenter met his future wife, Deborah, who was studying for a master's degree at Southern Connecticut State University and worked as a manager of a Fleet Bank branch in New Haven. They married in August 1998.
John Carpenter (game show contestant) | Career and family
Oosterhouse's career as a carpenter began at the age of 12, when he began learning carpentry as an apprentice to his neighbor, a carpenter. He continued to work in carpentry and construction throughout school following in the footsteps of his older brothers, Todd and Tyler, who are also carpenters. For his formal education, he attended the Grand Traverse Area Catholic Schools. Oosterhouse has a B.A. in nutrition and communication from Central Michigan University.
Carter Oosterhouse | Early life
His son's best friend, and cousin was Walter Allen (Al) Dealey, Jr. who had lost his father in the previous 12 months. He went to Al and said, "you've lost a father" and "I have lost a son". Let's be "father and son" to each other, and gave him a ring in remembrance of that "replacement commitment" to each other.
John W. Carpenter | Early life
Carpenter was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on September 24, 1899. He was a first cousin of Walter S. Carpenter, Jr., and Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter., Manuscripts and Archives Department.
Donald F. Carpenter | Personal
He went to sea as a cabin boy in 1860, aged 14, with his father's permission.
James Henry Carpenter | Early life
Carpenter was born on December 7, 1979, in Louisville, Kentucky, the daughter of Catherine (née Mitchell) and Robert Carpenter. She attended St. Raphael the Archangel and then Sacred Heart Academy. She trained at the Walden Theatre Conservatory program, and later at New York City's Juilliard School (Drama Division "Group 31": 1998–2002). Before graduation, she was cast in the 2002 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney.
Jennifer Carpenter | Early life
Josh Christian Foreman was born on July 26, 1925 in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
John Foreman (producer) | Early life
Nicholas Carpenter is the son of Scott Carpenter, one of the original Mercury astronauts, and Maria Roach Carpenter, daughter of film producer Hal Roach. Carpenter has a brother, Matthew Scott; four half-siblings from his father's first marriage, Marc Scott, Kristen Elaine, Candace Noxon and Robyn Jay; and a half sibling from his father's third marriage, Zachary Scott. Carpenter grew up in Los Angeles, where his father made his home after retiring from NASA in 1969.
Nicholas Carpenter | Early life
Moreover, during 2006, the United States Library of Congress deemed "Halloween" to be "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. During 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Carpenter about his career and films for his BBC documentary series "A History of Horror". Carpenter appears in all three episodes of the series. He was also interviewed by Robert Rodriguez for his "The Director's Chair" series on El Rey Network.
John Carpenter | Legacy
His family immigrated to the United States from Ireland when Michael was five, and they settled in Brooklyn. When he was older he worked as a ship carpenter and worked with Ned Harrigan who would become an actor.
Michael J. Coffey | Early life
Peter F. Carpenter was born in San Francisco, California in 1940. Carpenter's father was in the Navy during World War II. He was part of the Boy Scouts of America, becoming an Eagle Scout in 1955. During his high school years, Carpenter lived in rural north Florida, where he was a volunteer firefighter; he helped with both structural and wildland fires. Carpenter graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Harvard University in 1962. His family had the expectation that he would enlist in the armed forces, so he participated in the ROTC at Harvard. He then attended the University of Chicago, graduating with an MBA in 1965.
Peter F. Carpenter | Early life and education
John William Carpenter (August 31, 1881 - June 16, 1959) was an American businessman and agriculturist.
John W. Carpenter | Introduction
Feehery was born on December 11, 1963 in Chicago to Jack Feehery, an Amoco executive and Maureen Mason, a homemaker and interior designer. He studied history at Marquette University, earning his bachelor's degree in 1986 and his master's degree in 1988.
John Feehery | Early life and education
Freeman was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to a mother who was a fine art painter. As an adult, he moved to New York City.
Jonathan Freeman (cinematographer) | Early life
John Carpenter, bishop of Worcester, appears as a plaintiff in the Plea Rolls of the Common Pleas, in 1450, and is also described as the warden of the Hospital of St Anthony.
John Carpenter (bishop) | Early life
S. Jon Kreedman was born circa 1921 in Detroit, Michigan. His father was a carpenter-turned-real estate developer. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1941, and he served in the United States Army during World War II.
S. Jon Kreedman | Early life
Carpenter was born in Flint, Michigan, in 1960. He attended Flint Southwestern High School.
Brian Carpenter (American football) | Early years
Carpenter was born in Leicester, England, and was educated at the Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys in Leicester. He earned a master's degree in physics from Downing College at Cambridge University, and MSc and PhD degrees in computer science from The University of Manchester.
Brian Carpenter (Internet engineer) | Early life and education
Carpenter was born and raised in the town of Edgington, Illinois. He graduated from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
Charles Carpenter (lieutenant colonel) | Early life and career
Together, they started Carpenter Communications, a marketing and advertising firm that partners with local businesses and nonprofit organizations.
Jon Carpenter | Early Life
Stephenson was born in London, England. Educated at the Kingston School of Art and then the Royal College of Art, graduating in 1979. He moved to the USA and had a brief spell working as a designer of prestigious-fashion West End Interiors in Los Angeles.
John Stephenson (director) | Early life
Boyd-Carpenter is the son of John Archibald Boyd-Carpenter, Baron Boyd-Carpenter and Margaret Mary Hall. Boyd-Carpenter was educated at Stowe School, an independent school in Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England.
Thomas Boyd-Carpenter | Early life
He is the son of Rev. E.F. Carpenter, renowned ecclesiastical historian and Dean of Westminster Abbey between 1974–1986, and Lillian Carpenter. His nephew is the cricketer Ed Carpenter. David Carpenter attended Westminster School along with David Piachaud (later Professor of Social Policy at the LSE) and Christ Church, Oxford where Carpenter earned a first-class degree and went on to do his doctorate.
David Carpenter (historian) | Early life and education
John Edward McGrath was born 5 September 1962 in Mold, North Wales and grew up in Liverpool.
John McGrath (artistic director) | Early life
After his retirement, he spent much of his time composing. Carpenter served as Chairman of the Board of Children's Home Society of Illinois and a life trustee of the Children's Home Society of Illinois Foundation. He died in Chicago on April 26, 1951.
John Alden Carpenter | Biography
Louis H. Carpenter was a direct descendant (great-great-great-grandson) of immigrant Samuel Carpenter (November 4, 1649 Horsham, Sussex, England–April 10, 1714 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He came to the British colonies in North America in early 1683 by way of Barbados. The eldest son of eight children born to Edward Carpenter 2nd and Anna Maria (Mary) Howey, Carpenter was born in Glassboro, New Jersey. In 1843, his family moved to Philadelphia, where they attended Trinity Episcopal Church in West Philadelphia. L. Henry Carpenter attended A. B. Central High School in Philadelphia in 1856 and started attending the Student University of Pennsylvania in 1859.
Louis H. Carpenter | Early life and family
Carpenter was born to Thomas Wirt Carpenter and Ellen Isaphene Dickson in Corsicana, Navarro County, Texas. He was raised on the family's farm, which had been established after the Civil War. After his father's death, he took over the farm, becoming the head-of-household at the early age of 19. He took a job with Corsicana Gas and Electric Company in 1900 to supplement the income of the farm digging trenches and holes for electric and gas lines. He married Flossie Belle Gardner on June 18, 1913. Together, they had three children: Ellen Carolyn, Benjamin Howard, and John William, Jr. His son "Johnny" was killed in an automobile accident when he was a freshman at the University of Texas in 1934.
John W. Carpenter | Early life
Horace B. Carpenter (January 31, 1875 – May 21, 1945) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He appeared in 334 films between 1914 and 1946. He also directed 15 films between 1925 and 1934. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Carpenter died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack.
Horace B. Carpenter | Introduction
He also first connected with Howard while writing a paper on his career in the U.S. Army for a course. After serving for three years in the U.S. Navy during World War II, Carpenter completed a master's degree at Columbia University in 1947. His master's thesis examined industrial development in Paterson, New Jersey between 1792 and 1913. In 1954, Carpenter earned a Ph.D. from Columbia after he studied Howard for his dissertation. His dissertation had the title: "An Account of the Civil War Career of Oliver Otis Howard Based on His Private Letters".
John A. Carpenter | Early life and education
He was a Boy Scout, and earned the rank of Second Class Scout.
Scott Carpenter | Early life
Carpenter's films are characterized by minimalist lighting and photography, static cameras, use of steadicam, and distinctive synthesized scores (usually self-composed). With the exception of "Someone's Watching Me!", "Elvis", "The Thing", "Starman", "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", and "The Ward", he has scored all of his films (though some are collaborations), most famously the themes from "Halloween" and "Assault on Precinct 13". His music is generally synthesized with accompaniment from piano and atmospherics. Carpenter is an outspoken proponent of widescreen filming, and all of his theatrical films (with the exception of "Dark Star" and "The Ward") were filmed anamorphic with a 2.35:1 or greater aspect ratio.
John Carpenter | Techniques
Carpenter was a son of John Steele Carpenter and his wife Margaret McCullough, of New Castle County, Delaware. The Carpenter line descended from James Carpenter (c. 1666 - c. 1738) of Accomack County, Virginia and Sussex County, Delaware. On 1 February 1877 John Stilley Carpenter married Margaret E. Cutler (29 July 1860 - 12 September 1880); they had two children. On 10 January 1890 he married Ann Elizabeth Hopkins (February 1867 - ); they had four children.
John Stilley Carpenter | Personal
Lynch was born in Boulder, Colorado. He attended Regis Jesuit High School in Denver. He studied theater at The Catholic University of America, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1986.
John Carroll Lynch | Early life
He was born as Hugh Ryan Conway, on July 17, 1887, in Graceville, Minnesota, US.
Jack Conway (filmmaker) | Early life
Jeffrey Collé was born in 1952 on Long Island, New York. Collé's grandfather (who immigrated to the U.S. from Belgium in 1913) and his father were both carpenters, making Collé a third-generation carpenter. Starting early in life, he worked for his grandfather and father on various construction sites throughout Long Island and New York City.
Jeffrey Collé | Early life
Archer was born Ralph Bowman in Osceola, Nebraska, the son of Eunice Melba (née Crawford) and Joseph Emmett Bowman. Archer moved to California at the age of five. He attended Hollywood High School and the University of Southern California, where he studied cinematography, expecting work behind the camera.
John Archer (actor) | Early life
A descendant of John Carpenter (c1713-1760) of Deptford, Gloucester County, New Jersey and of a Carpenter family with a tradition of ironworking, he married on December 23, 1874 in Arapahoe County, Colorado to Annette Howe; they were the parents of eleven children.
Franklin R. Carpenter | Introduction
John Carpenter had three grandchildren from his first marriage and six great grandchildren.
John Henry Carpenter | Biography
Johnny Carpenter (Jasper Carpenter; June 25, 1914 – February 27, 2003) was an American film actor, screenwriter and producer. He was known mostly for his work in Westerns and for his association with filmmaker Ed Wood. He used the stage names John, Johnny, Josh, and John Forbes.
Johnny Carpenter | Introduction
Carpenter was born in North Carolina, before moving to Kentucky and then Mississippi while in high school. He took up running while living there, because he had "nothing else to do". Over time it became a way to fund his college education, and subsequently an escape from bereavement in the period following the death of his mother. As a student at the University of Southern Mississippi he frequently visited Colorado, and moved there after graduation, first to Vail in 1987, then to Colorado Springs four years later, before settling in Manitou Springs in 1998.
Matt Carpenter (runner) | Early life
Born in Avon, Illinois, Carpenter was the son of Barlow Carpenter, a Universalist minister, and Clara Carpenter (1874 – 1971). He graduated from Lombard College in Galesburg, Illinois in 1921, where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Lombard College also is where Carpenter met his future lifelong wife, Betty. They were married July 29, 1922.
Ken Carpenter (announcer) | Early life and education
Carpenter went on to a career in medicine, devoting a 50-plus-year career to the understanding and treatment of severe mental illness.
William T. Carpenter | Early life
During rehearsals for a play at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, Carpenter was found dead in his dressing room. He had recently recovered from injuries suffered in a car accident.
Paul Carpenter (actor) | Life and career
Born in Rochester, New York to the artist and educator Fletcher Hawthorne Carpenter (1879–1954) and Agnes "Barbara" Wight (1883–1981), he was one of four children. He was a fraternal twin with Collins W. "Connie" Carpenter, later of Canandaigua, New York. He was a descendant of William Carpenter (1605 England - 1658/1659 Rehoboth, Massachusetts) the founder of the Rehoboth Carpenter family who came to America in the mid-1630s.
Edmund Snow Carpenter | Early life
He worked as a carpenter before enlisting in the service.
Ira Hayes | Early life
Carpenter was born in Park Ridge, Illinois on February 28, 1876, and raised in a musical household. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied under John Knowles Paine, and was president of the Glee Club, also writing music for the Hasty-Pudding Club. Showing great promise as a composer, he journeyed to London to study under Edward Elgar, and finally succeeded in studying with him in Rome in 1906, later returning to the United States to study under Bernhard Ziehn in Chicago through 1912. It was there he earned a comfortable living as vice-president of the family business, a shipping supply company, from 1909 to his retirement in 1936.
John Alden Carpenter | Biography
Guleserian aspired to be a filmmaker from a young age. He worked as an ice cream truck driver before studying cinematography at college, first as an undergraduate at Columbia College Chicago and then graduate school at the AFI Conservatory. While studying, he spent his spare time "shooting short films for any director that would let me" to gain experience.
John Guleserian | Early life
John Chapman was born July 14, 1965, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and grew up in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. In 1983 he graduated from Windsor Locks High School.
John A. Chapman | Early life
Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr. (born July 10, 1926) is an American film, television and stage actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist.
Carleton Carpenter | Introduction
Carpenter's father was John Carpenter the elder, born around 1362 to Richard or Renaud Carpenter of Cambrai and his wife Christina of London. John Carpenter the bishop was also known as John Carpenter the elder. He had three siblings, Margery, John the younger, and William. His two brothers were baptised in Hereford. He was baptised on 4 May 1399 in St Peter's Church, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, England. He had a notable uncle also called John Carpenter, town clerk of London. According to Douglas-Smith, Carpenter was Warden of St. Anthony's Hospital, London and Rector of St. Mary Magdalen. A Master John Carpenter, then King's clerk, is referred to in Patent Rolls of 17 March 1433 and 9 July 1435, the first being a grant for life of the wardenship.
John Carpenter (bishop) | Early life
Carpenter was a descendant of the Rehoboth Carpenter family who came to America in the mid-1630s.
George Moulton Carpenter Jr. | Family
Born was Elwood Dager in Toledo, Ohio to a well-off Scottish-English family, executives in the steel and iron industry, Cromwell graduated from private high school at Howe Military Academy in 1905, but never pursued a higher education.
John Cromwell (director) | Early life and education
Carpenter was a descendant of Samuel Carpenter, a close associate of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. He married on September 28, 1886 in Wilmington, Delaware to Mary Cowgill Conwell, who was born June 10, 1863 in Delaware and died February 12, 1929.
Horace Thompson Carpenter | Personal
Johnston was born in Austin, Texas, and attended California State University, Long Beach, and Pasadena's Art Center College of Design.
Joe Johnston | Early life
After a short time as assistant master at a Unitarian school near Birmingham, in 1802 he was appointed librarian at the Liverpool Athenaeum.
Lant Carpenter | Early life
Born in Missouri, Vogler studied filmmaking at the USC School of Cinema-Television, the alma mater of George Lucas.
Christopher Vogler | Early life and education