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.
Early life
John Carpenter
John Carpenter | Early life
Low-budget horror films. Horror, action, and science fiction films. He  is associated most commonly with horror, action, and science fiction films horror, action, and science fiction films
when did the movie the thing come out
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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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Bill Lancaster.
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John Carpenter
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Carthage, New York
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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
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
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
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
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
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 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'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"
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
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
, Carpenter was more involved with his music career than filmmaking, although he was involved in 2018's "Halloween" reboot.
John Carpenter | Film music and solo records
For a recent interview, Carpenter stated that it was his father's work, as a music teacher, which first sparked an interest in him to make music. This interest was to play a major role in his later career: he composed the music to most of his films, and the soundtrack to many of those became "cult" items for record collectors. A 21st-Century revival of his music is due in no small amount to the Death Waltz record company, which reissued several of his soundtracks, including "Escape from New York", "Halloween II", "", "Assault on Precinct 13", "They Live", "Prince of Darkness", and "The Fog".
John Carpenter | Film music and solo records
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Carpenter originally wrote the screenplay for "Escape from New York" in 1976, in the aftermath of Nixon's Watergate scandal. Carpenter said, "The whole feeling of the nation was one of real cynicism about the president." He wrote the screenplay, but no studio wanted to make it because, according to Carpenter, "[i]t was too violent, too scary, [and] too weird". He had been inspired by the film "Death Wish", which was very popular at the time. He did not agree with this film's philosophy, but liked how it conveyed "the sense of New York as a kind of jungle, and I wanted to make a science-fiction film along these lines".
Escape from New York | Development and writing
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
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
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
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
He died in Middletown, New York.
Hunter Carpenter | Death
Carpenter had just made "Dark Star", but no one wanted to hire him as a director, so he assumed he would make it in Hollywood as a screenwriter. The filmmaker went on to do other films with the intention of making "Escape" later. After the success of "Halloween", Avco-Embassy signed producer Debra Hill and him to a two-picture deal. The first film from this contract was "The Fog". Initially, the second film he was going to make to finish the contract was "The Philadelphia Experiment", but because of script-writing problems, Carpenter rejected it in favor of this project. However, Carpenter felt something was missing and recalls, "This was basically a straight action film.
Escape from New York | Pre-production
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
His last feature film credit was in John Carpenter's "The Ward" (2011).
Mark Chamberlin | Life and career
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
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 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
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
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
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
Escape from New York is a 1981 post-apocalyptic action film directed by John Carpenter. Escape from New York may also refer to:
Escape from New York (disambiguation) | Introduction
Carpenter wrote the film in the mid-1970s in reaction to the Watergate scandal. After the success of "Halloween" (1978), he had enough influence to begin production and filmed it mainly in St. Louis, Missouri, on an estimated budget of $6 million. Debra Hill and Larry J. Franco served as the producers. The film was co-written by Nick Castle, who had collaborated with Carpenter by portraying Michael Myers in "Halloween".
Escape from New York | Introduction
Carpenter's first major film as director, "Dark Star" (1974), was a science fiction comedy that he co-wrote with Dan O'Bannon (who later went on to write "Alien", borrowing freely from much of "Dark Star"). The film reportedly cost only $60,000 and was difficult to make as both Carpenter and O'Bannon completed the film by multitasking, with Carpenter doing the musical score as well as the writing, producing, and directing, while O'Bannon acted in the film and did the special effects (which caught the attention of George Lucas who hired him to work with the special effects for the film "Star Wars").
John Carpenter | 1970s: From student films to theatrical releases
Carleton Upham Carpenter, Jr. (born July 10, 1926) is an American film, television and stage actor, magician, songwriter, and novelist.
Carleton Carpenter | Introduction
Television Television Movies Film
John L. Roman | Filmography
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
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
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
"The Ward" was filmed in Super 35, the first time Carpenter has ever used that system. Carpenter has stated he feels that the 35mm Panavision anamorphic format is "the best movie system there is", preferring it to both digital and 3D film.
John Carpenter | Techniques
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
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
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 is most widely known for his early work in horror and genre cinema and for his collaborations with directors James Cameron, McG, and Robert Luketic. His first major project as Director of Photography was the 1988 horror-comedy "". His work on the 1997 film "Titanic" earned him an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, an ASC Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Theatrical Releases, a nomination for a BAFTA Award, as well as numerous other accolades.
Russell Carpenter | Career
He also played the "Screwdriver Zombie" in Romero's classic "Dawn of the Dead" (1978). The music that was composed for the score of "Creepshow" was also featured in the fake trailer for "Thanksgiving" in the film "Grindhouse" (2007).
John Harrison (director) | Early life and career
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 received praise for his ability to make low-budget films. Carpenter's next film was "Assault on Precinct 13" (1976), a low-budget thriller influenced by the films of Howard Hawks, particularly "Rio Bravo". As with "Dark Star", Carpenter was responsible for many aspects of the film's creation. He not only wrote, directed, and scored it, but also edited the film using the pseudonym "John T. Chance" (the name of John Wayne's character in "Rio Bravo"). Carpenter has said that he considers "Assault on Precinct 13" to have been his first real film because it was the first film that he filmed on a schedule.
John Carpenter | 1970s: From student films to theatrical releases
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
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
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 T. "Jack" Carpenter (born September 18, 1984) is an American actor.
Jack Carpenter (actor) | Introduction
Carpenter's compositional style was considered to be mainly "mildly modernistic and impressionistic"; also, many of his works strive to encompass the spirit of America, including the patriotic "The Home Road" and several of his works are jazz-inspired. He composed three ballets: "Krazy Kat: A Jazz Pantomime", based on the "Krazy Kat" comics, was premiered at the New York Town Hall on 20 January 1922, and was the first work by a concert composer to use the word 'jazz' in its title; possibly his best-known is "Skyscrapers" (1926), set in New York (it premiered at the Metropolitan Opera), but equally inspired by his native Chicago.
John Alden Carpenter | Works
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
Carpenter was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois on January 26, 1971.
Jana Carpenter | Early 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
"Escape from New York" opened in New York and Los Angeles July 10, 1981. The film grossed $25.2 million in American theaters in summer 1981. The film received generally positive reviews. As of October 4, 2019, it had an 85% positive rating at the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes from 62 reviews, with the critical consensus: "Featuring an atmospherically grimy futuristic metropolis, "Escape from New York" is a strange, entertaining jumble of thrilling action and oddball weirdness". "Newsweek" magazine wrote of Carpenter: "[He has a] deeply ingrained B-movie sensibility - which is both his strength and limitation. He does clean work, but settles for too little.
Escape from New York | Critical reception
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
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
Stephen Carpenter, born in Weatherford, Texas, and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, is an American writer, director, and cinematographer with nine films and two television works to his credit, and more in development. Carpenter has been writing since 7th grade. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theater, Film and Television. He lectures on writing and story structure at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His screenplays include "The Man", starring Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy, "Blue Streak", starring Martin Lawrence, and others. He has written and directed several thrillers, including "Soul Survivors", starring Eliza Dushku and Casey Affleck.
Stephen Carpenter (writer) | Introduction
Commenting on the role and on appearing in another of Carpenter's films, she said "That's what I love about John. He's letting me explore different aspects of myself. I'm spoiled rotten now. My next director is going to be almost a letdown".
The Fog | Casting
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
The John A. Carpenter Research Material Collection at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library in New York City houses Carpenter's papers. The collection includes manuscripts, typescripts, research notes, reviews of Carpenter's books, his articles and lectures, and other materials. It also contains his materials for a project biographing all agents of the Freeman's Bureau.
John A. Carpenter | Legacy
Cone was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in South Carolina. He moved to Chicago in 2004 and, in his words, taught himself to make movies "by making movies."
Stephen Cone | Early life
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
"The Ward", Carpenter's first film since 2001's "Ghosts of Mars", premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 13, 2010. Carpenter narrated the video game "F.E.A.R. 3," while also consulting on its storyline. On October 10, 2010, Carpenter received the Lifetime Award from the Freak Show Horror Film Festival. Test footage from the set of "Darkchylde" emerged in July 2010 and on October 31, 2010, it was announced Carpenter will direct. On February 3, 2015, the indie label Sacred Bones Records released his album "Lost Themes". On October 19, 2015, All Tomorrow's Parties announced that Carpenter will be performing old and new compositions in London and Manchester, England.
John Carpenter | 2010s: "The Ward", focus on music and return to "Halloween"
He graduated from USC in 1990, and was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. Singleton considered pursuing computer science, but enrolled in USC's Filmic Writing program under Margaret Mehring. The program was designed to take students directly into the Hollywood system as proficient writer/directors. He cited the original "Star Wars" film as one of his strongest influences and the work of Steven Spielberg as a source of inspiration.
John Singleton | Early life
The genre received its impetus from the publication by Alexander Jackson Davis of "Rural Residences" and from detailed plans and elevations in publications by Andrew Jackson Downing.
Carpenter Gothic | Introduction
By the late 1870s, Carpenter became increasingly interested in religion and spirituality; art historian Mary Bartlett Cowdrey believed "that religious obsession somehow undermined Carpenter's work". Carpenter died in New York City—a brief obituary appearing in "The New York Times" misstated the title of his most famous work.
Francis Bicknell Carpenter | Later career and death
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
In the 1980s, Joston's acting career became more sporadic, and he made a gradual transition from acting to working full-time as a teamster on film and television transportation crews. He had begun working as a teamster when he was between acting jobs, which, according to Joston, was much of the time; eventually, he became so busy working on film crews that he rarely had time to look for roles. After 1986, he worked primarily in transportation until his retirement in 1994. In 1982, when Carpenter was scheduled to direct the film adaptation of Stephen King's novel "Firestarter", Joston was considered for the role of John Rainbird, the Native-American assassin; but after Universal Pictures executives fired Carpenter from the project (following the commercial failure of "The Thing") and replaced him with Mark L.
Darwin Joston | Later career
He was hit and killed by a train in 1933.
John Carpenter (athlete) | Legacy & Death
During that time he worked with directors including Sydney Pollack, Milos Forman, Tim Burton, John Schlesinger and Alan Parker. In 2001 John wrote and directed the short film "Chopsticks" , starring Ron Moody. The film was a finalist in the 2002 Turner Classic Movies short film competition.
John MacInnes (writer) | Early life
He was a Boy Scout, and earned the rank of Second Class Scout.
Scott Carpenter | Early life
After graduating from high school, he went on to college, but after a few years, decided to pursue acting as a career. He moved to New York City where he performed in off Broadway children's shows, musicals, student films, indie films, in featured roles on television shows, and in black box theater. Studying with Matthew Corozine opened the passion and heart even more.
Josh Carpenter | Introduction
Carpenter was educated at the Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (studying under Thomas Eakins), the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art and the New York Art Students League.
Horace Thompson Carpenter | Education
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
Debra Hill (November 10, 1950 – March 7, 2005) was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for producing various works of John Carpenter. She also co-wrote four of his films: "Halloween", "The Fog", "Escape from New York" and "Escape from L.A." They also wrote and produced "Halloween II" together, which Carpenter did not direct.
Debra Hill | Introduction
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
Carpenter followed up the success of "Halloween" with "The Fog" (1980), a ghostly revenge tale (co-written by Hill) inspired by horror comics such as "Tales from the Crypt" and by "The Crawling Eye", a 1958 film about monsters hiding in clouds. Completing "The Fog" was an unusually difficult process for Carpenter. After viewing a rough cut of the film, he was dissatisfied with the result. For the only time in his filmmaking career, he had to devise a way to salvage a nearly finished film that did not meet his standards. In order to make the film more coherent and frightening, Carpenter filmed additional footage that included a number of new scenes.
John Carpenter | 1980s: Continued commercial success
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 on 7 December 1946 in Oxford, England.
Christine Carpenter (historian) | 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
He is frequently distinguished in historical documents as "John Carpenter, the younger", "John Carpenter, Junior" (incorrectly), and as "John Carpenter, Jenkin". "Jenkin" or "Jenken" is a diminutive of the name John. John Carpenter was one of three men by that name who were prominent during the 15th century. Both others are mentioned in his will of 1442. One was his brother, John Carpenter the elder, who received much property from his younger brother.
John Carpenter (town clerk) | Introduction
He went to sea as a cabin boy in 1860, aged 14, with his father's permission.
James Henry Carpenter | Early life
Raised in Winnetka, Illinois, on the North Shore of Chicago, Byrum attended New Trier High School, and later studied at New York University in the late 1960s. His instructors included Haig P. Manoogian and graduate student Martin Scorsese, and classmates Oliver Stone and Eric Jenkins. At NYU, he co-wrote "Item 72-D, The Adventures of Spa and Fon" with director Edward Summer.
John Byrum | Early life
is a cleverly executed stunt, but it is also an effective alibi for a technically proficient filmmaker who really has nothing to say. Another John Carpenter is born, which is by no means a bad thing."
Le Dernier Combat | Release and reception
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
He began his career as an international model. During his time as a model, John became a friend of Andy Warhol. His first feature film as an actor came with a small role in 1981's "So Fine". His well-known roles came in the 1983 comedy film "Losin' It" as Spider; later that year, he starred in the John Carpenter horror film "Christine" as Dennis Guilder, and the 1985 comedy film, "My Science Project" as Michael Harlan. Also in 1985 he appeared in the poorly received "City Limits"; though unsuccessful at the box office, the film was later riffed in an episode of "Mystery Science Theater 3000".
John Stockwell (actor) | Career
In John, Mary follows Jesus to his crucifixion, and he expresses concern over her well-being (). Jesus is called a τέκτων ("tektōn") in , traditionally understood as carpenter but it could cover makers of objects in various materials, including builders. The gospels indicate that Jesus could read, paraphrase, and debate scripture, but this does not necessarily mean that he received formal scribal training.
Jesus | Early life, family, and profession
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
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
Singleton lived in Detroit until after the Civil War was underway. During this time, he worked as a carpenter.
Benjamin &quot;Pap&quot; Singleton | Early life and education
Carpenter was an early adopter of synthesizers, since his film debut "Dark Star", when he used an EMS VCS3 synth. His soundtracks went on to influence electronic artists who followed, but Carpenter himself admitted he had no particular interest in synthesizers other than that they provided a means to "sound big with just a keyboard". For many years he worked in partnership with musician Alan Howarth, who would realize his vision by working on the more technical aspects of recording, allowing Carpenter to focus on writing the music. The renewed interest in John Carpenter's music thanks to the Death Waltz reissues and "Lost Themes" albums caused him to, for the first time ever, tour as a musician.
John Carpenter | Film music and solo records
Carpenter III (1962), Kenneth Carpenter (1964), and Stephen Carpenter (1965).
Bill Carpenter | Personal 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
Tony Award New York Drama Critics' Circle Independent Reviewers of New England
Larry Carpenter | Awards and nominations