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John Carpenter is a film director, screenwriter, composer (United States).
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, composer, and actor. Most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s, he is generally recognized as a master of the horror genre. At the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, the French Directors' Guild gave him the Golden Coach Award and lauded him as "a creative genius of raw, fantastic, and spectacular emotions". On April 3, 2025, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Carpenter's early films included critical and commercial successes such as Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), and Starman (1984).
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| Born | 16 January 1948 |
| Profession | film director, screenwriter, composer |
| Nationality | United States |
| Educated at | University of Southern California, USC School of Cinematic Arts, Western Kentucky University |
| Spouse | Adrienne Barbeau, Sandy King |
| Children | Cody Carpenter |
| Awards | The George Pal Memorial Award, Time Machine Award |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Pisces |
| Nakshatra | Uttara Bhadrapada (Pada 1) |
| Sun Sign | Capricorn |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Virgo |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 666 Hollywood personalities with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 64 of them (10%) have the Moon in Pisces, like John Carpenter, and 30 (5%) share the Uttara Bhadrapada Nakshatra — the #2 most common Moon Nakshatra among Hollywood personalities, where Dhanishta leads with 31 (5%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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John Carpenter was born on 16 January 1948. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
John Carpenter's Moon sign (Rashi) is Pisces and the Nakshatra is Uttara Bhadrapada, pada 1, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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