Loomis put it in the original film) to a recognizably human stain on real, flesh-and-blood survivors like Loomis and Laurie Strode ( Jamie Lee Curtis), Michael’s sister-the P.T.S.D.-stricken star of David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween, which comes to theaters October 19. But all managed to successfully disappear into the part, a role that has transformed over the decades (and 11 films) from the embodiment of “pure evil” (as Donald Pleasence’s paranoid Dr.
Their backgrounds range from stunt coordinator ( Dick Warlock, of Halloween II) to professional wrestler (6-foot-8-inch Tyler Mane, Adult Michael in the 20 Halloween remakes) to Stella Adler Studio-trained actor ( James Jude Courtney, of this year’s Halloween sequel). Castle had no formal training as an actor, but neither did many of his successors-a little less than a dozen actors over the past 40 years. The first man to play masked killer Michael Myers-the real star of the Halloween franchise-was Nick Castle, who went to college and played in a band with Halloween director and co-writer John Carpenter.