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Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the sci-fi horror film The Thing, directed by John Carpenter and based on a story by John W. Campbell Jr. See the full cast and crew list, including actors, producers, writers, composers, and more.
The Thing is a 1982 American science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter from a screenplay by Bill Lancaster.Based on the 1938 John W. Campbell Jr. novella Who Goes There?, it tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing", an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms.
Jun 25, 1982 · A horror sci-fi movie about a shape-shifting alien that hunts a research team in Antarctica. See the cast and crew list, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more on IMDb.
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Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the sci-fi horror film The Thing, directed by John Carpenter. See the full list of actors, producers, writers, composers, and more.
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- Donald Moffat As Garry. Donald Moffat portrayed Garry, a stern station commander and leader of Outpost 31 in The Thing. Like many other characters in the film, his fate was grim, but the actor's future was not.
- Thomas G. Waites As Windows. Thomas G. Waites was one of the youngest members of The Thing's cast, and he played a goofy and short-fused radio operator named Windows.
- David Clennon As Palmer. David Clennon played Palmer in The Thing, an assistant mechanic who delivers many laughs. After this role, he has gone on to work on film projects like 1984's Falling in Love, 2005's Syriana, 2011's J.Edgar with Leonardo DiCaprio, and 2014's Gone Girl.
- Richard Dysart As Cooper. The award-winning actor who played the chief physician in The Thing, Richard Dysart, had a successful career afterward. Dysart passed away in 2015 at the age of 86, but before that, he proved his acting chops many times over in the horror genre and beyond.
In remote Antarctica, a group of American research scientists are disturbed at their base camp by a helicopter shooting at a sled dog. When they take in the dog, it brutally attacks both human ...
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When scientist Dr. Carrington (Robert Cornthwaite) reports a UFO near his North Pole research base, the Air Force sends in a team under Capt. Patrick Hendry (Kenneth Tobey) to investigate. What ...
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