Nick Castle est un scénariste, acteur et réalisateur de film américain né le 21 septembre 1947 à Los Angeles (Californie, États-Unis). Ami de John Carpenter depuis l'université, il intègre le groupe de ce dernier, « The Coupe de Villes » (avec également un autre étudiant, Tommy Lee Wallace) et demeure célèbre pour sa participation au tournage du film La Nuit des masques. Il y interprète le personnage appelé « The Shape » (la forme, la silhouette), qui n'est autre que le surnom donné au tueur Michael Myers quand celui-ci porte son masque légendaire.

Biographie

Early life
Castle was born Nicholas Charles Castle, Jr. in Kingsport, Tennessee the son of Millie and Nicholas Charles Castle, Sr. who was an actor and top choreographer for motion pictures, television, and the stage, and was nominated for an Emmy. As a child, Nick Castle often appeared as an extra or in bit roles in his father's films. He studied film at USC, where he served as cinematographer for the Academy Award-winning live action short film The Resurrection of Broncho Billy.


Career
Castle's film credits include Major Payne, Dennis the Menace, The Last Starfighter, and Connors' War as a director, Escape from New York and Hook as a screenwriter, and Tap as both.

He played Michael Myers in the 1978 horror classic Halloween, directed by former USC classmate John Carpenter, being paid $25 a day.

Castle's most recent project is the screenplay for August Rush, a musical-drama directed by Kirsten Sheridan and starring Freddie Highmore, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Robin Williams, and Keri Russell, released in 2007. He also stars as himself in the 2010 documentary Halloween: The Inside Story by Filipino filmmaker Nick Noble.

Castle won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for The Boy Who Could Fly, a Silver Raven (for Delivering Milo), a Grand Prize (for The Last Starfighter), a Bronze Gryphon, and a Gold Medal of the Regional Council.

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