Nick Castle

Personal context

Summary

Nick Castle is an actor, screenwriter, and director known for playing Michael Myers in Halloween, co-writing Escape from New York, and directing The Last Starfighter, The Boy Who Could Fly, Tap, Dennis the Menace, and Major Payne. His films include horror, science fiction, family comedy, and dance drama; Tap centers on tap dancing and its performers. In 1989, he produced a video for the Mark Curtis Defense Committee, saying he believed Curtis had been framed and wanted to document the case and its supporters. No public statements on identity politics or DEI are on record.