Question: What year was the director known for the Halloween series born?
Context: Esta Malka Charkham (born 29 March 1949) is a British television and film producer and casting director known for the films "Chariots of Fire" (1981) and "Supergirl" (1984) and the television series "Robin of Sherwood" (1984), among others.  She is a Director of the casting agency Esta Charkham Associates; the Founder and Principal of West London Drama Training, an independent theatre school for young people between the ages of 7 and 18; and a former Director of the National Youth Theatre. Danielle Andrea Harris (born June 1, 1977) is an American actress and film director, best known as a scream queen for her participation in several horror films, including four entries in the "Halloween" series: 1988's "", 1989's "" (as Jamie Lloyd), 2007's "Halloween" and 2009's "Halloween II" (as Annie Brackett).  Other such turns include portraying Tosh in "Urban Legend" (1998), Belle in "Stake Land" (2010), and taking over the lead role of Marybeth Dunston in the "Hatchet" trilogy, for "Hatchet II" (2010) and "Hatchet III" (2013). Trivikram Srinivas (Akella Naga Srinivasa Sarma), is an Indian film screenwriter, dialogue writer, and director known for his works exclusively in Telugu cinema.  In the year 2000, he wrote dialogues for "Nuvve Kavali", which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu for that year.  Regarded as the "wizard of words" Trivikram's craft is known for its high dose of comedy, fast-paced repartee, farcical situations, escapist themes, and comedy thriller plot lines involving action, emotion, courtship, family and marriage. The International GTSprint Series was a grand tourer-style sports car racing founded in 2010 by FG Group, led by Maurizio Flammini, and afterwards by Superstars World of Racing SpA, a company managed by the same group.  The series born under the name of Superstars GTSprint and took the current name the following year, and was canceled before the 2014 season due to lack of entries. Left for Dead is a Canadian horror film and the debut film for Mindscape Films, described by director Christopher Harrison as "an '80s slasher flick", similar to John Carpenter's "Halloween" series. Treehouse of Horror, also known as "The Simpsons" Halloween specials, is a series of Halloween specials within the animated series "The Simpsons", each consisting of three separate, self-contained segments.  These segments usually involve the Simpson family in some horror, science fiction, or supernatural setting.  They take place outside the show's normal continuity and completely abandon any pretense of being realistic, being known for their far more violent and much darker nature than an average "Simpsons" episode.  The first, entitled "Treehouse of Horror", aired on October 25, 1990, as part of the second season and was inspired by EC Comics horror tales.  Since then, there have been 26 other "Treehouse of Horror" episodes, with one airing every year. Tom Braidwood (born September 27, 1948) is a Canadian actor and director known for the role of Melvin Frohike, one of the conspiracy theorists known as The Lone Gunmen on the American television series "The X-Files".  Braidwood also served as an assistant director on the show from seasons one through five; was a second unit director on "Millennium", another series from Chris Carter, the creator of "The X-Files"; and a producer of the second season of the Canadian TV series "Da Vinci's Inquest", on which he also directed some episodes. Thomas "Tommy" Lee Wallace (born September 6, 1949) is an American film producer, director, editor, and screenwriter.  He is best known for directing horror films such as "", "Fright Night Part 2" and "It".  He is a long-time collaborator of director John Carpenter, getting his first credit as an art director on Carpenter's directorial debut "Dark Star".  Along with Charles Bornstein, he edited both the original "Halloween" and "The Fog".  Initially approached to direct "Halloween II", a position eventually taken by Rick Rosenthal, he directed the following entry "Season of the Witch." William H. "Blackie" Pitt (March 18, 1925 – March 28, 1992) is a NASCAR Grand National Series born in the American town of Rocky Mount, North Carolina.  He is best known as the 1954 NASCAR Rookie of the Year. John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American movie director, screenwriter, producer, musician, editor and composer.  Although Carpenter has worked with various movie genres, he is associated most commonly with horror, action and science fiction movies of the 1970s and 1980s.
Answer: 1948