Name
Stephen King
Known For
Writing
Birthday
1947-09-21 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Portland, Maine, USA
Biography
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author. He is widely known for his horror novels and has been crowned the "King of Horror". He has also explored other genres: suspense, crime, science-fiction, fantasy, and mystery. Though known primarily for his novels, he has written approximately 200 short stories, most of which have been published in collections.
His debut, Carrie (1974), established him in horror. Different Seasons (1982), a collection of four novellas, was his first major departure from the genre. Among the films adapted from King's fiction are Carrie (1976), The Shining (1980), The Dead Zone and Christine (both 1983), Stand by Me(1986), Misery (1990), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Dolores Claiborne (1995), The Green Mile (1999), The Mist (2007), and It (2017).
He has also published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman and has co-written works with other authors, notably his friend Peter Straub and sons Joe Hill and Owen King. He has also written nonfiction, notably Danse Macabre (1981) and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000).
Among other awards, he has won the O. Henry Award for "The Man in the Black Suit" (1994) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller for 11/22/63 (2011). He has also won honours for his overall contributions to literature, including the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the 2007 Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates called King "a brilliantly rooted, psychologically 'realistic' writer for whom the American scene has been a continuous source of inspiration, and American popular culture a vast cornucopia of possibilities."
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Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker...
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Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife...
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- 1991 Golden Years as Bus Driver
- 1981 Knightriders as Hoagie Man
- 1982 Creepshow as Jordy Verrill (segment "The Lonesome Death Of Jordy Verrill")
- 1987 Creepshow 2 as Truck Driver
- 2023 King on Screen as Self (archive footage)
- 2013 Stuck in Love as Self (voice)
- 2000 Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me as Self
- 1999 Stephen King: Shining in the Dark as Self
- 1986 Stephen King's World of Horror as Self
- 2000 Stephen King: Fear, Fame and Fortune as Himself
- 2005 Gotham Cafe as Mr. Ring (voice)
- 2021 The Timekeepers of Eternity as Tom Holby (archive footage)
- 2014 Walking the Mile as Self
- 1986 Maximum Overdrive as ATM Asshole (uncredited)
- 2018 101 Seconds as Self
- 2005 Fever Pitch as Stephen King (uncredited)
- 1996 Thinner as Pharmacist
- 1987 Long Live the New Flesh: The Films of David Cronenberg as Self
- 2011 A Night at the Movies: The Horrors of Stephen King as Self
- 1995 Golden Tales 2
- 2025 Chain Reactions as Self
- 1992 The Rock Bottom Remainders as Self
- 1989 Stephen King's World of Horror as Self
- 2014 Meister des Grauens - Thomas Gottschalk präsentiert Stephen King as Self
- 1989 Pet Sematary as Minister
- 2018 Stephen King: Master of Horror as Self
- 1992 Sleepwalkers as Cemetery Caretaker
- 2019 It Chapter Two as Shopkeeper
- 2019 Die Stephen King Story as Himself
- 2007 Diary of the Dead as Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
- 2019 The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends as Self
- 2000 Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile as Self - Author
- 2008 When Darkness Came: The Making of The Mist as Self
- 2019 The King: Stephen King's America as Himself
- 2020 Stephen King: A Necessary Evil as Self - Writer (archive footage)
- 2002 Unlocking Rose Red: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer as Stephen King
- 2025 My Father, the BTK Killer as Self - Author, 'The Good Marriage' / Guest, CBS This Morning (archive footage)
- 2004 Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at The Shawshank Redemption as Self
- 1989 The Simpsons ( 1 episode ) as Stephen King (voice)
- 2008 Sons of Anarchy ( 1 episode ) as Bachman
- 2004 Stephen King's Kingdom Hospital ( 1 episode )
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 The Shining ( 1 episode ) as Gage Creed
- 1952 Today ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1984 Jeopardy! ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2012 Finding Your Roots ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1994 The Stand ( 2 episodes ) as Teddy Weizak
- 1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2013 Under the Dome ( 1 episode ) as Diner Patron
- 1995 The Langoliers ( 2 episodes ) as Tom Holby
- 1993 Frasier ( 1 episode ) as Brian (voice)
- 1999 Storm of the Century ( 1 episode ) as Lawyer in Ad (uncredited)
- 2002 Rose Red ( 1 episode ) as Pizza Guy
- 2004 100 Scariest Movie Moments ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 2020 Duncanville ( 1 episode ) as (voice)
- 1994 Baseball ( 0 episode ) as Various (voice)
- 1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2008 Markus Lanz ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2018 Eli Roth's History of Horror ( 6 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 Morgenmagazin ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1991 Golden Years ( 1 episode ) as Bus Driver
- 1998 Sternstunde Kunst ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1967 Omnibus ( 1 episode )
