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
Howard Hawks and John Ford Howard Hawks and John Ford. Howard Hawks Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
when did the movie the thing come out
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1982
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what is the movie about?
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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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where is he from?
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Carthage, New York
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what film genre is he known for?
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Low-budget horror films.
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what are the methods he is known for using in his movies?
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His films are characterized by minimalist lighting and photography, static cameras, use of steadicam, and distinctive synthesized scores (usually self-composed).
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was he married?
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Yes - Carpenter was married to Barbeau from January 1, 1979, to 1984.
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who's films did he take interest in his early days?
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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
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
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
Barbeau was married to director John Carpenter from January 1, 1979 to 1984. The two met on the set of his television movie, "Someone's Watching Me!" (1978). The couple had a son, John Howard "Cody" Carpenter Junior (born May 7, 1984), shortly before they separated. During their marriage, the couple lived in Hollywood Hills but according to Barbeau remained "totally outside Hollywood's social circles." Barbeau married actor/playwright/producer Billy Van Zandt, twelve years her junior, on December 31, 1992. The two met in 1991 when Barbeau was cast in the West Coast premiere of his play, "Drop Dead!" Billy is the half-brother of musician/actor Steven Van Zandt.
Adrienne Barbeau | Personal 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
In 1901, Carpenter married Rue Winterbotham, and they had one daughter, Genevieve Baldwin Carpenter, later Genevieve Carpenter Hill. After his wife's death in 1931, he married Ellen Borden.
John Alden Carpenter | Personal life
The film was shot in eighteen days. "I had some control over it," said Carpenter. "I was able to shoot only what I wanted, I wouldn't cover it... I just gave them what I wanted and it got okayed." Carpenter worked with Adrienne Barbeau, whom he married in 1979, for the first time when making "Someones Watching Me!". Barbeau later starred in "The Fog" (1980) and had a supporting role in "Escape from New York" (1981). The television station Leigh Michaels gets a job at is named KJHC. The last three letters are a secret wink to the writer and director's full name: John Howard Carpenter.
Someone's Watching Me! | Shooting
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
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's 1990s career is characterized by a number of notable failures: "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" (1992), "Village of the Damned" (1995), and "Escape from L.A." (1996) are examples of films that were critical and financial failures. Also notable from this decade are "Body Bags", a television horror anthology film that was made in collaboration with Tobe Hooper, "In the Mouth of Madness" (1995), yet another Lovecraftian homage, which did not do well either commercially or with critics but now has a cult following, and "Vampires" (1998), which featured James Woods as the leader of a band of vampire hunters in league with the Catholic Church.
John Carpenter | 1990s: Commercial decline and "Halloween H20: 20 Years Later"
The film was the first time Carpenter worked with Debra Hill, who played prominently in the making of some of Carpenter's most important films. Carpenter assembled a main cast that consisted of experienced but relatively obscure actors. The two main actors were Austin Stoker, who had appeared previously in science fiction, disaster, and blaxploitation films, and Darwin Joston, who had worked primarily for television and had once been Carpenter's next-door neighbor.
John Carpenter | 1970s: From student films to theatrical releases
In 1901, Carpenter married the composer John Alden Carpenter. They had one daughter Genevieve Baldwin Carpenter, later Genevieve Carpenter Hill. In 1929, they lived at 942 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago. On December 7, 1931, Carpenter died in Chicago, Illinois. She was 55 years old.
Rue Winterbotham Carpenter | Personal life
Cast as the female lead was Adrienne Barbeau, Carpenter's wife, who had appeared in Carpenter's TV movie "Someone's Watching Me!" in 1978. This was her first feature film. Barbeau also appeared in Carpenter's next film, "Escape from New York" (1981). Tom Atkins, a friend of Barbeau's, was cast as Nick Castle. "The Fog" was Atkins' first appearance in a Carpenter film, and he also appeared in Carpenter's next film, "Escape from New York" (1981) as well as "" (1982), which was produced and scored by Carpenter. Jamie Lee Curtis, who was the main star of Carpenter's 1978 hit "Halloween", appeared as Elizabeth.
The Fog | Casting
Carpenter married Annabelle Lee in 1954. They lived in Ayot Bury, Ayot St Peter near Welwyn in Hertfordshire, had two children and remained married until his death.
Richard Carpenter (screenwriter) | Personal life
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
Robert also appeared in two other John Carpenter movies; namely "Someone's Watching Me!" (1978) and "Starman" (1984). His other film credits include "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), "Just You and Me, Kid" (1979), "Zoot Suit" (1981), "The Gladiator" (1986) and "Impulse" (1990).
Robert Phalen | Introduction
She was born Rue Winterbotham, the daughter of Joseph Humphrey Winterbotham (1852–1925), a Chicago manufacturer, bank director, Chicago Art Institute benefactor and Michigan state senator, and his wife Genevieve Winterbotham, née Baldwin (1853–1906).
Rue Winterbotham Carpenter | Early life
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
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
He met Nancy Ludwig, a cheerleader and his future wife, in high school. As a teenager, Hughes found movies as an escape. According to childhood friend Jackson Peterson, "His mom and dad criticized him a lot (...) She [Marion] would be critical of what John would want to do". Hughes was an avid fan of the Beatles, and according to several friends, he knew a lot about movies and the Rat Pack.
John Hughes (filmmaker) | Early life
Carpenter was married four times, divorced three times, and had a total of eight children by three wives, seven of whom survived to adulthood. He married his first wife, Rene, in September 1948. They had five children: Marc Scott, Kristen Elaine, Candace Noxon, Robyn Jay, and Timothy Kit, who died in infancy. By 1968, Carpenter and his wife had separated, with him living in California and Rene with their children in Washington, D.C. The Carpenters divorced in 1972. In 1972, Carpenter married his second wife, Maria Roach, the daughter of film producer Hal Roach. Together, they had two children: Matthew Scott, and Nicholas Andre, who would later become a filmmaker.
Scott Carpenter | Personal life
He married Genevieve Baldwin (1853-1906) of New Haven, Connecticut, and they had four children, including Rue Winterbotham Carpenter. Their sons John and Joseph, Jr. were educated at Yale University, and their daughters, Rue and Genevieve, travelled to Europe.
Joseph Winterbotham | Personal life
Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Carpenter started her film career at the age of three. Her fame grew in the early-1920s as she made a series of successful appearances in films such as, "Helen's Babies" with Baby Peggy, and "The Sign of the Rose". She had occasional adult roles through 1940s, then she retired from film business. Carpenter died of emphysema in Oxnard, California.
Jeanne Carpenter | Biography
Carpenter would also make a featured appearance in Wood's 1959 film, "Night of the Ghouls". By the 1960s, western film work had dried up and Carpenter's output decreased, with his last film role being in 1961's "Tomboy and the Champ".
Johnny Carpenter | Film career
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
He remained a plasterer for the rest of his life and was an active member of the plasterer’s union, which he joined in 1924. In June 1922, he married Mary Jane Parrott, a cotton mill worker. Mary would continue to work in local cotton mills for the duration of their marriage.
Jack Hilton (author) | Early 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 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
"So I suppose my own aesthetic evolved from looking at certain kinds of pictures--Bergman and Ozu and John Ford, if you will." Rafelson began dating Toby Carr in high school and they later married in the mid-1950s. The couple had two children: Peter Rafelson, born in 1960, and Julie Rafelson, born in 1962. Toby Rafelson was a production designer on many films, including her husband's "Five Easy Pieces", "The King of Marvin Gardens", and "Stay Hungry", as well as Martin Scorsese's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and Jonathan Demme's "Melvin and Howard".
Bob Rafelson | Early life
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
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
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
He went to sea as a cabin boy in 1860, aged 14, with his father's permission.
James Henry 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
In 1969 he married Kathleen Hoyt Ridder, granddaughter of Victor F. Ridder.
Lewis Crampton | 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
He later worked in the theatre as assistant carpenter, shifting scenes. On completion of his apprenticeship, he worked as a carpenter for some years. He married in 1805 - in the 1849 biography he stated "I have been a married man four and forty years". The couple had ten children, eight girls and two boys, but one girl and both boys died in infancy.
Billy Purvis (1853) | Early life
After his honorable discharge in 1946 John trained at the New York Institute of Photography and the Brooklyn Institute of Motion Picture Production. Upon graduating, he went into an apprenticeship program at the Signal Corps Pictorial Center for film editing. During this time, he met the love of his life Carole at a dance in Harlem at the Hotel Theresa on the top floor in the Skyline Ballroom. They were married on August 22nd 1954 in Idlewild, Michigan. They had 3 children, and 6 grandsons. He died at his White Plains, New York home on August 13, 2018, aged 95.
John Carter (film editor) | Personal 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
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
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
Carpenter was a son of Erastus and Mary (née Taylor) Carpenter, born in 1821 at Auburn, Cayuga, New York, where his father was an early merchant. He married Sevira Wethey in 1848, with whom he had two children before her untimely death in 1864.
William H. Carpenter (1821–1885) | Personal
John Carpenter had three grandchildren from his first marriage and six great grandchildren.
John Henry Carpenter | Biography
Francis Carpenter (1910–1973) was an American child actor active in films of the silent era. He co-starred with Virginia Lee Corbin in several film such as "Jack and the Beanstalk".
Francis Carpenter (actor) | Introduction
Stompanato left his wife and child and moved to Hollywood, California, in 1947. His wife was granted a divorce in Illinois on the grounds of desertion in January 1949. The next month, Stompanto, described in a news article as a "ceramics manufacturer," married actress Helen Gilbert. Three months later, Gilbert announced she would seek to end the marriage, calling it a "mistake." They divorced in July 1949.
Johnny Stompanato | Early 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
After spending the winter in a tent in Belgium, he chose Florida. At the Ringling School of Art he met Roberta Ann Lethermon, and they were married 1949.
John Boatright | Early life and education
Carpenter married on 21 April 1908 Hélène Jeanne, daughter of Henry, Baron d'Este.
George Alfred Carpenter | Family
Parker. He received his LL.B. degree from Boston University School of Law in 1897. One of Carpenter's law school classmates was David I. Walsh, with whom he remained friendly after their graduation.
Arthur P. Carpenter | 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
Carpenter later became national sales manager at Akai, and arranged his business trips to coincide with Crane's dinner-theater touring schedule so that the two could continue seducing and videotaping women after "Hogan's Heroes" had run its course.
John Henry Carpenter | Relationship with Bob Crane
In 1897, Carpenter married Addie Laura Boynton (1875-1959). They were married until his death, and had no children.
Arthur P. Carpenter | Family
The couple was married in 1871.
John Michael Kohler | Early life
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
Carpenter was a son of George and Phoebe (née Hooper) Carpenter. In 1891, he married Emma Eason of Dublin, with whom he had two sons.
George Herbert Carpenter | Personal
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
He also worked on films such as "The Third Man" (1949), "Outcast of the Islands" (1951) and "The Sound Barrier" (1952).
John Hawkesworth (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
Carpenter married and divorced Paul Ord Hamilton, J. H. S. Lucas-Scudamore and the actor Eric Berry; she was twice married to and twice divorced from the songwriter Captain James Kennedy. She died of a stroke in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, aged 88.
Constance Carpenter | Personal 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
In a beginning film course at USC Cinema during 1969, Carpenter wrote and directed an 8-minute short film, "Captain Voyeur". The film was rediscovered in the USC archives in 2011 and proved interesting because it revealed elements that would appear in his later film, "Halloween" (1978). The next year he collaborated with producer John Longenecker as co-writer, film editor, and music composer for "The Resurrection of Broncho Billy" (1970), which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. The short film was enlarged to 35 mm, sixty prints were made, and the film was released theatrically by Universal Studios for two years in the United States and Canada.
John Carpenter | 1960s: Student films and Academy Award
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
The date of John Carpenter's marriage has not been found, nor has the maiden name of his wife, Katherine. Katherine was born in or of Zeeland (now a province of the Netherlands) about 1372. Her will was written 31 March 1457 and proved in June 1458. She was later buried with her husband in the Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. They had no children.
John Carpenter (town clerk) | Marriage
They married in 1937.
John Cade | Early life
He eventually became a roofer and painter. He met his future wife Agnes in Philadelphia. They had six children together in California where they moved in the early 1940s.
Jimmy Kinnon | Early life
In 1945 he married Claire, also an archaeologist, whom he had met as a student.
Michael J. O'Kelly | Early life
He had a wife, the former Estelle Cohen, and a son, Jerry, and daughter, Betty Schwartz. He died at the age of 78 in 1976.
John Barsha | Early and personal life
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
He and his first wife, Nancy, divorced. He married his second wife, Sarah. Cox was raised by a Jewish mother. He now practices Catholicism with his family.
John H. Cox | Early life
She was a talented photographer of landscapes and architecture, with pictures published in "Architectural Review" and "Horizon". She married John Rayner, features editor of the "Daily Express", in 1939.
Joan Leigh Fermor | Early life
She recovered sufficiently to become chief medical librarian at Boulder Community Hospital in 1945. His father remained in New York, and he seldom saw him. He found it hard to find work during the Great Depression, but eventually secured a good position at Givaudan. His parents divorced in 1945, and his father remarried. Carpenter lived with his maternal grandparents in the family home at the corner of Aurora Avenue and Seventh Street. He later denied naming his spacecraft "Aurora 7" after Aurora Avenue. He was educated at University Hill Elementary School in Boulder, and Boulder High School, where he played the clarinet, was a cheerleader, and served on the editorial board of the student newspaper.
Scott Carpenter | Early life
Carpenter was then in a legal dispute with "They Live" production company Alive Films regarding his contract. He had had several projects fall through: a film with Cher called "Pincushion", "Exorcist III", and a version of "Dracula". He was reluctant to make "Memoirs" at first. “When you have lots of money and lots of time, it's really grueling. I enjoy being an independent, and it’s not possible to be one in this situation. But then I thought. ‘Why not?’ I hadn’t done a movie for a long time.” The actor had to convince Warner Bros. that Carpenter, who they still saw as a horror director, could work well for the picture.
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (film) | John Carpenter
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
Carpenter married movie producer Milton Feldman, who was born July 19, 1911 in New York City and died October 8, 1976 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California; they had two children.
Imogen Carpenter | Personal
Jenney then remarried twice. First he married Anne Marshall West on November 11, 1938. After her death he married Mary Mellon Wise who survived his death. Carpenter commissioned the paintings of thoroughbred horses "Jabneh" (b. 1952) in 1956 and his dam "Belle Soeur" (b. 1945) by equine artist Ann Collins in 1959.
Louisa d'Andelot Carpenter | Biography
Not wanting to become a burden on his family, after a year of recuperating he returned to his cobbler's bench in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1836, John married Cylena Drury and they had three children: Arabella, Arathusa, and Seymour.
John &quot;Grizzly&quot; Adams | Early years
Many of Carpenter's films have been re-released on DVD as special editions with numerous bonus features. Examples of such are: the collector's editions of "Halloween", "Escape from New York", "Christine", "The Thing", "Assault on Precinct 13", "Big Trouble In Little China", and "The Fog". Some were re-issued with a new anamorphic widescreen transfer. In the UK, several of Carpenter's films have been released as DVD with audio commentary by Carpenter and his actors ("They Live", with actor/wrestler Roddy Piper, "Starman" with actor Jeff Bridges, and "Prince of Darkness" with actor Peter Jason). Carpenter has been the subject of the documentary film "John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies", and American Cinematheque's 2002 retrospective of his films.
John Carpenter | Legacy
In the late 1940 he separated from his wife and in 1953 he bought the movie ranch now carrying his name.
George Spahn | Early life
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
It was also there that he met and married his first wife, Sali Thompson. They would have five children together: John, Susan, Diane, and twins Kathleen and Kevin.
J. P. McCarthy | Early life
They married in 1951.
John Young (brewer) | Early life
In 1948 he was appointed Executive Producer at the studios by Rank's Managing Director John Davis with a brief to rein in financial losses. "Some producers objected because he was a showman," said one producer of this time. Early films made under St John at Rank included the musical "Trottie True" (1949) with Jean Kent, and the fantasy "The Rocking Horse Winner" (1949) with John Mills. "The Woman in Question" (1950) was a thriller with Kent and Dirk Bogarde, and "Highly Dangerous" (1950) was an unsuccessful attempt to restore Margaret Lockwood to her mid 1940s popularity. Under his austere and autocratic control, location filming was cut back, and budgets slashed.
Earl St. John | Early films
David Carpenter, a native of San Francisco, was physically abused as a child by his alcoholic father and domineering mother. As a boy, he had a severe stutter, a persistent bed-wetting problem, and exhibited cruelty to animals. At age 13, Carpenter was incarcerated for molesting two of his cousins. He married in 1955, in a union that produced three children.
David Carpenter | Early life
Despite production problems and mostly negative critical reception, "The Fog" was another commercial success for Carpenter. The film was made on a budget of $1,000,000, but it grossed over $21,000,000 in the United States alone. Carpenter has said that "The Fog" is not his favorite film, although he considers it a "minor horror classic".
John Carpenter | 1980s: Continued commercial success
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
It was typical of John during those lean days. He made the very best of whatever talent and facilities he had around him." Carpenter drew storyboards for key sequences, including the "ice cream truck" sequence, the death of the white warlord, Napoleon Wilson struggling to get the keys of the guard after the siege starts, and the failed escape by prisoner Wells.
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976 film) | Pre-production
In 1880, he married Catherine H. Gardiner. Carpenter was also a major in the militia.
Franklin Metcalfe Carpenter | Introduction
It was the religious principles of the early Friends that caused them to refuse military service and pay for the "Church tax" of the National Church.
Samuel Carpenter | Early life
He married Jean Anne Carpenter that same year and also entered the United States Air Force during the Korean War and served as a special agent for the Office of Special Investigation rising to the rank of First Lieutenant. In 1956, he and his wife moved back to his home state of Missouri. He received a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia, Missouri, in 1959.
Mel Carnahan | Early life and education
They had a son, John Jr. (born 1930).
Jack Howarth (actor) | Early and personal 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
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
His younger brother, James Edward Carpenter, served in the Union army as a private in the Eighth Pennsylvania Cavalry and later was commissioned a second lieutenant. He later became a first lieutenant, captain then a brevet major of volunteers.
Louis H. Carpenter | Early life and family
Baragrey was born in Haleyville, Alabama, and graduated from the University of Alabama in 1939. He met his wife actress Louise Larabee, while touring with USO shows during World War II.
John Baragrey | Early years
Carpenter was born to Verba Glen Carpenter and Edna Earl Pullam in Hayti, Missouri. He was raised in West Memphis, Arkansas, where he attended high school and played six-man football. In 1951, Lew married Ann Holt. The couple had four daughters; Cheryl, Cathy, Lisa and Rebecca. His brother, Preston Carpenter (19342011), married Jeanne Eytchison and the couple had three sons: Scott, Bruce, and Lewis Todd.
Lew Carpenter | Early years and family
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
Bicknell’s first marriage was to Maria Hatch, in Vermont, in 1868. However, the bride died two months later, dying in Wisconsin where they resided. Bicknell's second marriage, to the widow Nancy (Christian) Dobbins occurred in 1871.
John Dustin Bicknell | 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
On October 14, 1875, he married Harriet "Hattie" E. Beddoe.
John T. Priest | Early life
He married Anna Davis Barney in 1853, and had six children before her death in 1864. He married Harriet Zerviah Pope in 1867 and had four children. He died at his home at 276 Angell Street. He is buried with his parents and both of his wives in the Newman Cemetery in East Providence, Rhode Island.
Francis W. Carpenter | Family life