John Carpenter

John Carpenter is an American film director and composer, born in 1948 in Carthage, New York. He wrote or co-wrote the music for nearly all of his own films, so the themes of Halloween, Escape from New York and The Fog come from the same hand that directed them. Since 2015 he has also released albums of new instrumental music that were not written for any film. John Carpenter directed Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978), The Thing (1982, scored by Ennio Morricone), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and They Live (1988).