John Carpenter Biography & Filmography

John Carpenter was born on January 16, 1948. He like others of the period grew up during the golden age of Sci-Fi films and Carpenter like many others took an avid interest. Unlike most others however he decided to take his passion for the genre and film in general and pursue it as a career. Although he attended more then one college and later dropped out he still managed to astoundingly win an Academy Award for a student film he made so early in his career. This however was only the beginning of a career that would show him to be one of the most important film directors of modern times.


Filmography Data Provided by Internet Movie Database:

2008:
The Prince
L.A. Gothic

2005-2006:
"Masters of Horror": (2 Episodes)

2001:
Ghosts of Mars

1998:
Vampires

1996:
Escape from L.A.

1995:
Village of the Damned
In the Mouth of Madness

1993:
Body Bags

1992:
Memoirs of an Invisible Man

1988:
They Live

1987:
Prince of Darkness

1986:
Big Trouble in Little China

1984:
Starman

1983:
Christine

1982:
The Thing

1981:
Escape from New York

1980:
The Fog

1979:
Elvis

1978:
Someone's Watching Me!
Halloween

1976:
Assault on Precinct 13

1974:
Dark Star

1969:
Sorceror from Outer Space
Warrior and the Demon
Gorgon, the Space Monster

1963:
Terror from Space

1962:
Revenge of the Colossal Beasts