John Carpenter filmography

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.

Films

Year	Film	Credited as
		Director	Producer	Writer	Composer	Actor	Role
1970	The Resurrection of Broncho Billy			Yes	Yes
1974	Dark Star	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
1976	Assault on Precinct 13	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Gang Member
1978	Eyes of Laura Mars			Yes
	Halloween	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Voice of Paul (Annie's boyfriend)
1980	The Fog	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Bennett
1981	Escape from New York	Yes		Yes	Yes
	Halloween II		Yes	Yes	Yes
1982	The Thing	Yes				Yes	Norwegian in video footage
	Halloween III: Season of the Witch		Yes		Yes
1983	Christine	Yes			Yes
1984	The Philadelphia Experiment		Yes
	Starman	Yes				Yes	Man in helicopter
1986	Big Trouble in Little China	Yes		Yes	Yes	Yes	Worker in Chinatown
	Black Moon Rising		Yes	Yes
	The Boy Who Could Fly					Yes	Coupe de Villes band member
1987	Prince of Darkness	Yes		Yes	Yes
1988	They Live	Yes		Yes	Yes
	Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers				Yes
1992	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	Yes				Yes	Helicopter pilot
1993	The Silence of the Hams					Yes	Trench coat man
1995	In the Mouth of Madness	Yes			Yes
	Village of the Damned	Yes			Yes	Yes	Man at gas station phone
	Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers				Yes
1996	Escape from L.A.	Yes		Yes	Yes
1998	Vampires	Yes			Yes
	Halloween H20: 20 Years Later				Yes
2001	Ghosts of Mars	Yes		Yes	Yes
	Vampires: Los Muertos		Yes
2002	Halloween: Resurrection				Yes
2005	Assault on Precinct 13			Yes
	The Fog		Yes	Yes
2007	Halloween			Yes
2010	The Ward	Yes
Year	Film	Director	Producer	Writer	Composer	Actor	Role
		Credited as

^ I Credited as editor.
^ II Uncredited acting role.
^ III Theme music only.

Highest-grossing films

This is a list of films directed by John Carpenter that grossed more than $10 million at the US box office according to Box Office Mojo. Carpenter's films have grossed domestically a total of more than $282 million, with an average of $18 million per film.

Rank	Title	Lifetime gross (US$)
1	Halloween	47.0 million
2	Starman	28.7 million
4	Escape From L.A.	25.4 million
5	Escape From New York	25.2 million
6	The Fog	21.3 million
7	Christine	21.0 million
8	John Carpenter's Vampires	20.3 million
9	The Thing	19.6 million
10	Memoirs of an Invisible Man	14.3 million
11	Prince of Darkness	14.1 million
12	They Live	13.0 million

Television

Year	Title	Credit
1978	Zuma Beach	Writer
	Someone's Watching Me!	Director, writer
1979	Better Late Than Never	Writer
	Elvis	Director
1990	El Diablo	Writer
1991	Blood River	Writer
1993	Body Bags	Director, producer, composer, actor
1999	Silent Predators	Writer
2005	Cigarette Burns	Director
2006	Masters of Horror episode Pro-Life	Director

References

General

• "John Carpenter Movie Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=johncarpenter.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-15. 
• "John Carpenter > Filmography". Allmovie. http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:84225~T2. Retrieved 2008-01-15. 
• Conrich, Ian; David Woods (2004). The Cinema of John Carpenter: The Technique of Terror. Wallflower Press. ISBN 1904764142. 

Specific

External links

• John Carpenter at the Internet Movie Database