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John Carpenter

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ActorComposer b. 1948 On stage 19661992

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". On April 3, 2025, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Carpenter's early films included critical and commercial successes such as Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984). Though he has been acknowledged as an influentia…

On stage 5 productions, 26 years

1966 Dinner at Eight Alvin Theatre · Revival · directed by Tyrone Guthrie 127 perf.
1967 After the Rain John Golden Theatre · Original · directed by Vivian Matalon 64 perf.
1967 Galileo Vivian Beaumont Theater · Revival · directed by John Hirsch 76 perf.
1984 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Cort Theatre · Original · directed by Lloyd Richards 276 perf.
1992 Guys and Dolls Martin Beck Theatre · Revival · directed by Jerry Zaks 1,143 perf.

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Worked with more than once1 names

John Randolph Jones 2 productions

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In the literature6 passages

  • More recently, three of the unfortunate female characters in Halloween 2 , director Rob Zombie’s 2009 sequel to his 2007 reboot of John Carpenter’s 1978 slasher classic, wore replicas of The Rocky Horror Picture Show ’s Frank-n-Furter, Magenta and Columbia costumes for much of the movie’s blood-spattered final act.ebooks/Bagnall, Rob/Still the Beast is Feeding_ 40 Years of Rocky Horror - Rob Bagnall & Phil Barden.txt
  • Cast: Peter Gallagher, Nathan Lane, Josie de Guzman, Faith Prince, Walter Bobbie, John Carpenter, Steve Ryan, Ernie Sabella, J.K. Simmons,ebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt
  • THE OFFICE MURDERS by Martin Fox; Director, Clinton Atkinson; Stage Manager, Cindy Edstrom. CAST: John Carpenter (Ed), Norma Sandra Lloyd (Nurse), Paul DeJohn (Virgil), Peter Rogan (Hubert), Michael Pendrey (Rev. Stringer)theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • Designer, William Pitkin. CAST: John Carpenter, Impert, Tom Kapen, Connie Van Ess, Vance Jeffris, Margaret Barry Keena, Gene GeBauer, James Staley, Mitchell McGuire, Hollander, David KaSnider, Phoebe Dorin, James J. Mapes, Jack gen, Rick Asam, Jeff Kelly Designer, NOON by Terrence McNally; Director, Arthur Storch;Phoebe DoWilliam Pitkin.…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1973 74 Season, v. 30 (Willis).txt
  • Leonard Jackson, Theresa Merritt, Robert Judd, Joe Seneca, (above) Lou Criscuolo, John Carpentertheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1984-85 Season, v. 41 (Willis).txt
  • ; Susan Browning, John Carpenter, Carol Locatell in "The March on Russia" (Gerry Goodstein)theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1990-1991 Season, v. 47 (Willis).txt

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