Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American screenwriter, film director and actor. He rapidly rose to fame in the early 1990s as a stylish auteur whose bold use of nonlinear storylines, memorable dialogue, and bloody violence brought new life to familiar American film archetypes. His father was Italian and his mother was of mixed Irish and Native American descent.

Filmography

Director & screenplay

• My Best Friend's Birthday (1987)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992)
• Pulp Fiction (1994)
• Four Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") (1995)
• Jackie Brown (1997)
• Kill Bill (Vol. 1 2003, Vol. 2 2004)
• Sin City (2005) (Special Guest Director)
• ' (2005) "Grave Danger: Vols. I & II" (Guest Writer and Director)
• Grind House "Death Proof" segment (2006)
• Inglorious Bastards no official release date announced, possible 2007 release

Screenplay

• True Romance (1993)
• Natural Born Killers (1994)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

Actor

• My Best Friend's Birthday (1987) Clarence Pool
• Reservoir Dogs (1992) Mr. Brown
• Pulp Fiction (1994) Jimmie Dimmick
• Sleep With Me (1994) Syd
• Destiny Turns On the Radio (1995) Johnny Destiny
• Four Rooms (segment "The Man from Hollywood") Chester
• Desperado (1995) Pick-up Guy
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) Richard Gecko
• Girl 6 (1996) Q.T
• Little Nicky (2000) Deacon
• Alias (TV Series) (2001) McKenas Cole
• Hell Ride (2006)
• "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz" 2005

Executive producer

• Killing Zoe (1994)
• Four Rooms (1995)
• From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
• Curdled (1996)
• God Said, 'Ha!' (1998)
• Daltry Calhoun (2005)
• Freedom's Fury (2005)
• Hell Ride (producer, 2006)