L.M. Kit Carson Filmography

Born:: Dallas, TX
Occupation:: Actor, Co-producer, Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: L.M. Kit Carson is a screenwriter, director and actor best known for writing the script to the distinguished film David Holzman's Diary (1968). He also wrote the sequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide...Read More

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Lisa Picard is Famous

Actors: Daniel London, Griffin Dunne, L.M. Kit Carson

Synopsis: Actor-turned-filmmaker Griffin Dunne directs this mockumentary about the lives of struggling thespians. The film focuses on Lisa Picard (Laura Kirk), a fledgling actress about to burst on the scene thanks to a bit part in a made-for-TV movie. She is followed around by Dunne as she makes her Read More

8/22/01
Perfume

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Joanne Baron, Angela Bettis, Sonia Braga, D.W. Brown, Coolio

Synopsis: As a number of luminaries on the international fashion scene converge for a major show, their personal and professional crises come to a head in this comedy-drama. Lorenzo Mancini (Paul Sorvino) is an internationally famous designer who has learned he has only a short time to live. As Mancini Read More

2001
Senso Unico

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Lothaire Bluteau, Laila Rouass, Stefania Rocca, L.M. Kit Carson

Synopsis: In this offbeat romantic drama, Francesco (Lothaire Bluteau), a cartoonist who draws an adults-only sex-and-adventure feature, finds his relatively quiet life in Messina turned upside down by the arrival of a film crew from England, who've moved into town to shoot a movie under the direction of an Read More

1999
Hurricane

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Isidra Vega, Brendan Sexton III

Synopsis: A teenager tries to do the right thing with heavy odds stacked against him in this hard-hitting independent drama. Marcus (Brendan Sexton III) is a 14-year-old growing up in a tough section of New York City. Marcus' father is dead, and his mother is in prison; while she told him that it was for Read More

1997
Bottle Rocket

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Andrew Wilson, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Robert Musgrave, Lumi Cavazos, James Caan

Synopsis: A bright, optimistic caper comedy from first-time director Wes Anderson, Bottle Rocket focuses on a group of young Texans aspiring to become master thieves. Their leader is Dignan (Owen C. Wilson, who also co-wrote the screenplay), an upbeat if naive charmer who convinces his friends Anthony (Wilson Read More

1996
Running on Empty

Actors: Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Martha Plimpton, Jonas Abry

Synopsis: In this family drama from director Sidney Lumet, Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play Arthur and Annie Pope, a pair of '60s radicals who have eluded the FBI for 16 years after bombing a napalm laboratory as a Vietnam War protest. This lifestyle involves continually moving their base of operations Read More

9/9/88
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Caroline Williams, Bill Johnson, Jim Siedow, Bill Moseley

Synopsis: Over ten years after making the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper returns to his deranged family of reclusive cannibals for another round of chainsaw chases and non-stop screaming. Hooper brings a real budget this time (having recently directed Poltergeist for Steven Spielberg) and the Read More

8/22/86
Chinese Boxes

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Will Patton, Gottfried John, Adelheid Arndt, Robbie Coltrane, Beate Jensen

Synopsis: Per its title, Chinese Boxes plays the riddle-wrapped-in-a-mystery-wrapped-in-an-enigma angle to the hilt. Will Patton plays an innocent American who finds himself in the middle of international intrigue. With West Berlin as backdrop, the story takes so many twists and turns that one may well need Read More

1984
Breathless

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Gere, Valérie Kaprisky, Art Metrano, John Ryan, William Tepper

Synopsis: A botched attempt to remake Jean-Luc Godard's classic nouvelle vague entry, Á Bout de souffle, Breathless follows Jesse (Richard Gere), a fugitive wanted for the murder of a police officer. In the course of his flight from the law, he hitches up with a beautiful French college student (the Read More

1983
Paris, Texas

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Aurore Clément, Hunter Carson

Synopsis: Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he stumbles into a bar and collapses. A German doctor of dubious credentials finds a phone number in Travis' wallet, which belongs to his brother, Walt (Dean Stockwell). Walt is Read More

1983
The Last Word

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Harris, Karen Black, Martin Landau, Dennis Christopher, Biff McGuire

Synopsis: Danny Travis (Richard Harris) is a kindly Irish inventor and widower whose projects leave his family in a constant state of near poverty. He takes on the system when the city slates his apartment building for demolition. Danny uncovers a plot hatched by the scheming Governor Davis (Biff McGuire) Read More

1980
The Lexington Experience

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this documentary, it becomes clear that the musicians of the rock group, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. are no strangers to drug use themselves. Their attitudes and drug use are discussed in backstage interviews in between sessions of a concert at the Federal Narcotics Rehabilitation Center in Read More

1971
American Dreamer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: Dennis Hopper, who has been seen onscreen in small roles from the mid-50s, hit paydirt in Easy Rider, released in 1969. Aimed at the audience that attended Easy Rider, American Dreamer is a documentary/biography of Dennis Hopper. While this film is intended to look like it used cameras so Read More

1971
David Holzman's Diary

Actors: L.M. Kit Carson

Synopsis: Improvisational filmmaker Jim McBride knew enough of the "cinema verite" genre to poke fun at it in David Holzman's Diary. L.M. "Kit" Carson plays Holzman, who tries to put all of his life experiences on celluloid. His insistence upon poking his camera where it isn't wanted results only in Read More

1968