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John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, and composer. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award, lauding him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions".
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Carpenter
2026 · as Self (archive footage)

The Ward
2010 · Director

Ghosts of Mars
2001 · Director

Vampires
1998 · Director

Escape from L.A.
1996 · Director

Village of the Damned
1995 · Director

In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · Director

Body Bags
1993 · Director

Body Bags
1993 · as Coroner

Memoirs of an Invisible Man
1992 · Director

They Live
1988 · Director

Prince of Darkness
1987 · Director

Big Trouble in Little China
1986 · Director

Starman
1984 · Director

Christine
1983 · Director

The Thing
1982 · Director

Escape from New York
1981 · Director

The Fog
1980 · Director