Carmen Filpi

Who was Carmen Filpi?

Carmen Filpi was an American actor who starred in films and on television. He is well known for playing a homeless man in a lot of films.

His first feature film was in the 1969 film Wild Gypsies, he also starred in The Ice Pirates, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Life Stinks, and The Wedding Singer. Carmen also acted in the 2000 made-for-TV film Goodbye Casanova with Yasmine Bleeth. Carmen's final film was in 2002 in the film Eight Crazy Nights.

Horror film fans remember him from the 1988 hit horror film Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers as the Reverend Jackson P. Sayer. He portrayed a man passionate of his convictions and as a good Samaritan. Because Dr. Sam Loomis' transportation was destroyed while en route to Haddonfield, the reverend picked up the psychiatrist who was trying to hitchhike alongside a rural highway. The good reverend referred to his newfound passenger as a "fellow pilgrim." He paralleled a message to Loomis that "you can't kill damnation, mister. It don't die like a man dies." Loomis understood the reverend's insight privately reassuring himself that his patient Michael Myers seemed to be a relentless form of this damnation.