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John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky University and then USC film school in Los Angeles. He began making short films in 1962, and won an Academy Award for Best Live-Action Short Subject in 1970, for The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970), which he made while at USC. Carpenter formed a band in the mid-1970s called The Coupe de Villes, which included future directors Tommy Lee Wallace and Nick Castle. Since the 1970s, he has had numerous roles in the film industry including writer, actor, composer, producer, and director. After directing Dark Star (1974), he has helmed both classic horror films like Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), and The Thing (1982), and noted sci-fi tales like Escape from New York (1981) and Starman (1984).- Actress
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She was born Sally Bliss in Carthage, New York. Her father had moved the family from Ohio and was a science teacher at Carthage High School. In 1927, the family moved to Amityville, Long Island. She attended drama school in Rhode Island and at age 17, she was invited to Hollywood by Howard Hughes, who she did not meet until about a year later. She signed with his studio and dated Hughes a few times as well. He also had her stage name changed to Carla Balenda and this is how she was credited until 1957, when she decided to change it back to her real name. Just before she was 19, she married a WWII pilot, John Martin, and they stayed together for fifteen years, having two boys from the union before divorcing in 1959. Six years later, she married prominent California attorney and author William Rutter, who wanted her to be home with her children. She left acting and later became involved in volunteer charity work. Her husband passed away in 2012. She has thirteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren and as of 2021, she was residing in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, California.- Fletcher Brothers was born on 8 March 1948 in Carthage, New York, USA. He is a producer, known for Escaping Satan's Web (1990) and Dancing with the Devil (1991).
- Lucille Hammill was born in 1902 in Carthage, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Judgment House (1917), The Battle Cry of Peace (1915) and Philanthropic Tommy (1915). She died on 17 June 1939 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Howard was born in a rural upstate New York town of Carthage in 1967. Shortly after high school, He moved to Syracuse, NY where he enrolled in business school, and still resides today. While studying in Syracuse, Howard was attracted to the local arts scene where he has devoted a lot of his time. Howard Joined the SGLC (Syracuse Gay and Lesbian Chorus) in 1992, and still sings with them to this day. Howard also has commercial, local theater, choral, and film credits.