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Halloween (1978) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- Dick Warlock & Adam Gunn
- George P. Wilbur, Tom Morga, & Erik Preston
- Don Shanks
- George P. Wilbur & A. Michael Lerner
- Chris Durand
- Brad Loree
- Tyler Mane & Daeg Faerch
- Tyler Mane & Chase Wright Vanek
- James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle & Airon Armstrong
- Frédéric Poirier
Halloween II
In preparing to shoot Halloween II, John Carpenter and Debra Hill knew that due to the amount of action that Michael would be a part of, a professional stunt actor would be the best choice for the role of Michael Myers. Dick Warlock, who also served as the stunt coordinator on Escape from New Yorkand as Kurt Russell’s personal stuntman for over 25 years, was chosen for the role. For flashbacks in which Michael Myers appears again as a young boy, he was portrayed by 14-year-old Adam Gunn.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
After the disappointing box office of Halloween III: Season of the Witch (which did not feature Michael Myers) and a long hiatus fraught with difficulties in how to resurrect the slasher killer, he finally came back to terrify audiences once again in Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers. George P. Wilbur and Tom Morga shared the role of Michael in the fourth film. Morga plays Michael in the opening ambulance sequence, the gas station scene when he’s wrapped in gauze, the dinner scene with...
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
In Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers, Michael returns to hunt down Jamie Lloyd once more. In this film, Michael Myers is played by Don Shanks, who was also known at the time for having played one of the Santas in the Silent Night, Deadly Night movies. Shanks has a double role in Halloween 5, playing both Michael Myers and the mysterious Man in Black who attacks the police station and breaks Michael out of his cell. It should also be noted that George P. Wilbur is credited for stunts p...
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
The sixth installment of the Halloween movie series, Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, sees George P. Wilbur return to the franchise as Michael Myers, playing The Shape through most of the film. However, because of test audience disapproval, Halloween 6was rushed back into production. Large portions of the film were re-shot with A. Michael Lerner replacing George P. Wilbur as Michael because the studio wanted the villain to appear less bulky. This change results in the continuity error o...
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween H20 takes place 20 years after the original attacks on Haddonfield’s teenagers, ignoring the events of Halloweens 4, 5, and 6, and serving as a direct sequel to the first two films. Michael Myers is played by Chris Durand as he comes to find Laurie Strode and her son John at a boarding school where she serves as the dean. This brought the Halloween franchise back to its roots and allowed fans to cheer on Laurie once again as she battled The Shape. Other than Halloween H2O, Durand ha...
Halloween: Resurrection
Halloween: Resurrection follows Michael Myers as he finally kills off Laurie Strode, then returns to Haddonfield to find that his derelict childhood home is used for a live internet horror show. In this film, Michael Myers is played exclusively by Brad Loree, though Busta Rhymes and cameraman Charlie, played by Brad Sihvon, both don a Michael mask at certain points in the film. Like most of the Michael Myers actors, Loree was mostly a stuntman in movies, with work in Jennifer's Body, Cabin in...
Rob Zombie’s Halloween
Rob Zombie’s reimagining of the original Halloween brought more human elements to Michael Myers, exploring his backstory and also ramping up the psychopath element. Because of this, a lot more screen time is devoted to the young Michael Myers, played by Daeg Faerch. For the monstrous adult Michael Myers, Tyler Mane, also known for playing Rufus "RJ" Firefly, Jr. in Rob Zombie’s The Devil’s Rejects, took the role. A retired professional wrestler, Mane brought the size and strength to the role...
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II
In Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, Tyler Mane returned to his role as the adult Michael Myers, chasing after Laurie Strode and killing swaths of teens in his wake, while the young Michael Myers was played by Chase Wright Vanek. Daeg Faerch had originally signed on to reprise his role as the young Michael Myers actor in this film but was recast due to having grown quite a bit taller since the first movie. Faech was 12 when he played Michael Myers in Halloween while Vanek was 13 when he took on the...
Halloween
In the Blumhouse revival of Halloween, Nick Castle returned to his role as Michael Myers 40 years after he originated the role. Actor and stuntman James Jude Courtney supported him. While it was originally announced by the production company that the role would primarily belong to Nick Castle, with Courtney being there to supplement, it was revealed after the movie’s release that most of the screen time shows Courtney behind the Michael Myers mask. Castle appears as Myers in the window scene...
Dead by Daylight
While Michael Myers appears in many video games, Dead by Daylight is the only game in which Myers is credited to a voice actor. Though Dead by Daylight’s version of Michael Myers holds true to the original killer in Halloween and never speaks in the game, his breathing and grunts are done by Frédéric Poirier, an animator and composer known for his work on Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money.
- Donald Pleasence (Dr. Sam Loomis) When Myers murdered his older sister at the age of six, Dr. Sam Loomis became his appointed psychiatrist. The more Dr. Loomis observed Myers over the years, the more he realized that the young man was pure evil.
- Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode) There aren't too many iconic screams as good as Jamie Lee Curtis' in Halloween, but one could say she had a genetic predisposition to great lungs and vocal cords — just ask her mother, Janet Leigh, who produced one of the most celebrated screams in Hitchcock's Psycho (1960).
- Nick Castle (Michael Myers) Nick Castle took on Michael Myers' silent murderous ways, unkempt hair and sharp chef's knife. Castle did such a fine job at personifying the creepy character that director Carpenter teamed up with him again, but this time, serving as Carpenter's co-writer for the dystopian film Escape from New York (1981), which starred fellow Halloween cast member Pleasence.
- Tony Moran (Michael Myers) Castle's face didn't do the trick for Myers' maskless unveiling. So in came actor Tony Moran. A struggling actor when he got the role, Moran was paid $250 to play the part.
Halloween is an American slasher media franchise that consists of thirteen films, as well as novels, comic books, a video game and other merchandise.
- 1978–present
- List of novels
- List of comics
- Halloween (1978)
- Jamie Lee Curtis in 1978. Curtis made her big-screen debut as Laurie Strode, the teen terrorized by a masked maniac, single-handedly shattering the "scream queen" stereotype like no other actress before or since.
- Jamie Lee Curtis Now. Curtis reprised her role as Laurie in Halloween II, Halloween H20, Halloween Resurrection and the latest trilogy: 2018’s Halloween, 2021’s Halloween Kills and 2022’s Halloween Ends.
- Donald Pleasence in 1974. The character actor who played Myers’ appointed psychiatrist, Dr. Loomis, died at 75 in 1995 from complications of a heart valve replacement surgery.
- Nancy Loomis in 1980. Nancy Loomis stole every scene she was in as Laurie's wise-cracking pal, Annie. She followed that sassy supporting role as the deadpan assistant of Janet Leigh—yes, Curtis' Psycho mom—in Carpenter's 1980 film The Fog (seen here).
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Aug 8, 2016 · Jamie Lee Curtis (Laurie Strode) The most enduring character in the Halloween franchise, Jamie Lee Curtis played Michael's sister Laurie Strode. Her role in Halloween was her film debut.
John Carpenter. Screenplay. Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
