Quentin Tarantino

Directing · Born 1963-03-27 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

Biography

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s he was an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films have earned him a variety of Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Palme d'Or Awards and he has been nominated for Emmy and Grammy Awards. In 2007, Total Film named him the 12th-greatest director of all time. Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, the son of Connie McHugh Tarantino Zastoupil, a health care executive and nurse born in Knoxville, and Tony Tarantino, an actor and amateur musician born in Queens, New York. Tarantino's mother allowed him to quit school at age 17, to attend an acting class full time. Tarantino gave…

Filmography

• Reservoir Dogs as Mr. Brown
• Pulp Fiction as Jimmie Dimmick
• From Dusk Till Dawn as Richard Gecko
• Desperado as Pick-Up Guy
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as Red Apple Ad Director (uncredited) (voice)
• Django Unchained as The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee
• Sly as Self
• The Hateful Eight as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• Inglourious Basterds as First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited)
• Reservoir Dogs as Mr. White

TV

• The Golden Girls as Elvis Impersonator
• Alias as McKenas Cole
• The Jay Leno Show as Self - Guest
• The Director's Chair as Self
• Iconoclasts as Self
• Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
• All-American Girl as Desmond
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self
• Duck Dodgers as Master Moloch (voice)