People

Who wore it, who made it.

Seventeen people, one mask.

Who wore it

Masked Michael Myers (1978)

Nick Castle

Carpenter's friend from USC; wore the mask for the masked scenes and was paid $25 a day.

Established 1

Michael, unmasked (1978)

Tony Moran

Credited as "Michael age 23"; the face in the reveal near the end. He did not wear the mask.

Established 2 1

Production designer, art director, co-editor; wore it in the closet scene

Tommy Lee Wallace

Bought the Kirk mask, altered it, and appears as Michael Myers in the closet scene. Later directed Halloween III.

Established 3 4

Stunt double (1978)

James Winburn

Performed the balcony fall in the climax. "I put on the Michael Myers mask a number of times." Died November 2022, aged 85.

Established 5

Producer and co-writer; wore it in specific shots

Debra Hill

Per the AFI Catalog, she wore the mask during filming and provided the hands of six-year-old Michael in the opening shot. She kept the mask between films and confirmed its reuse in the sequel.

Established 2 6 7

Masked Michael Myers (Halloween II, 1981)

Dick Warlock

Wore the same mask Castle had worn, kept it afterward in an Elvis Presley tin, and later sold it to collector Mark Roberts.

Established 6 8

Who made it

Sculptor of the 1975 Kirk and Spock masks

Bill (William) Malone

Don Post Studios artist in the 1970s; left in 1980 to direct (Scared to Death, Creature, House on Haunted Hill, FeardotCom). "I sculpted the original Michael Myers which was really just a Bill Shatner 'Star Trek' mask."

Established 9 10 11

Don Post Studios

Don Post Jr.

Ran the mask company; claims the studio modified a Kirk mask for the filmmakers; sought a Myers license in 1981; marketed "The Mask" from 1986; lost the 2000 lawsuit.

Established 12 10

Sculptor of Don Post's 1986 "The Mask"

Neil Surges

Freelance sculptor handed the Shatner foam master in 1985; recognized the face and logged the job as "finish Wiliam [sic] Shatner bust."

Established 12

Sculptor of Cinema Secrets' 1999 licensed mask

Chris Hanson

Worked from three small pictures of the mask and a videotape of the film; approved by licensing agent Mickey Yablans.

Established 12

Sculptor, Trick or Treat Studios

Justin Mabry

Sculpted the studio's licensed 1978 Myers mask and its 2017 recreation of the 1975 Kirk mask.

Established 13 14

Designers of the 2018 film's mask

Christopher Nelson & Vincent Van Dyke

A new sculpt, informed by forty years of looking at the original.

Established 15

Around it

The face

William Shatner

Did not sit for the mask and has no stake in it. First reaction: "Is that a joke? Are they kidding?" Has worn a Michael Myers mask trick-or-treating with his children.

Established 16 17

Director and co-writer

John Carpenter

"It looked nothing like William Shatner, nothing like anybody, really. It was just a strange mask, which was perfect for us."

Established 18 19

Illustrator, Halloween II

Rick Sternbach

Found the leftover Don Post Kirk mask in the production office in 1981 and got the company to identify it by model number.

Established 20 21

Owner of the screen-used mask

Mark Roberts

Bought it from Dick Warlock around 2003 with the costume, boots, scalpel and knife; keeps it in dark, airtight, climate-controlled storage.

Reported 8

Historian of Don Post Studios

Lee Lambert

Author of The Illustrated History of Don Post Studios; interviewed Malone; source for the Paramount license terms and the mask's poor sales.

Established 10 22