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John Carpenter
Born in Carthage, New York, and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, John Carpenter was captivated by movies, especially Westerns. The son of a college music professor, he attended Western Kentucky University, then enrolled in the University of Southern California's School of Cinema. After winning an Academy Award® for his 1970 short subject, The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (completed while a film student at USC), Carpenter directed a series of low-budget, highly-commercial and critically-acclaimed movies, including Dark Star, Assault on Precinct 13 and Halloween.
Following Halloween, he established his reputation further with such genre hits as The Fog, They Live, Prince Of Darkness and Christine. His rank as an action director on a wider scale is also evident in such productions as Escape From New York, The Thing and Big Trouble In Little China.
His motion picture credits also include the comedy-thriller Memoirs Of An Invisible Man, the psychological horror film In The Mouth Of Madness, the sci-fi love story Starman, which earned Jeff Bridges a Best Actor Oscar® nomination, and Village Of The Damned, the terrifying remake of the classic 1950s horror story. For the small screen, Carpenter directed the thriller Someone's Watching Me, the acclaimed biographical mini-series Elvis and the Showtime horror trilogy John Carpenter Presents Body Bags. The "master of terror," as one critic describes him, shaped the imagination of filmgoers and generations of young filmmakers with other thrillers such as Vampires, Escape from LA and Ghosts of Mars.
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