Tom Atkins appeared in a substantial share of the horror and action films of the late 1970s and 1980s, including The Fog, Escape from New York, Halloween III, Creepshow, Lethal Weapon and Night of the Creeps.
Night of the Creeps gives him the lead and the line about thrill me, and the film is largely remembered because of him.
He worked repeatedly for John Carpenter, and the mustache and worn-out delivery made him the default older cop of the period.
He came from theatre in Pittsburgh, where he still works, and has been generous about the genre audience that sustained the career.
Danny GloverA suicidal LAPD detective is partnered with a family-man veteran during a Christmas drug investigation that turns into open warfare. Lethal Weapon is Richard Donner's 1987 American action film about a suicidal Los Angeles Police Department narcotics detective who is…
Adrienne BarbeauJohn Carpenter directs the story of a California coastal town haunted by the vengeful ghosts of mariners killed a century earlier. The Fog is John Carpenter's 1980 American horror film depicting a California coastal town haunted on its centennial by…
Adrienne BarbeauEscape from New York is John Carpenter's dystopian action film and one of the foundational works of 1980s post-apocalyptic cinema. Carpenter directed and co-wrote with Nick Castle.
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