Claim: John Heard acted in a movie directed by the director of Carrie.

Carrie is a 1976 American supernatural horror film based on Stephen King 's 1974 epistolary novel of the same name . The film was directed by Brian De Palma and produced by Paul Monash , with a screenplay by Lawrence D. Cohen .   The film received two Academy Award nominations , one for Sissy Spacek in the title role and one for Piper Laurie as her abusive mother . The film featured numerous young actors -- including Nancy Allen , William Katt , Amy Irving , and John Travolta -- whose careers were launched , or escalated , by the film . It also relaunched the screen and television career of Laurie , who had not been active in show business since 1961 .   Carrie was the first of more than 100 film and television productions adapted from , or based on , the published works of Stephen King .