Quentin Tarantino

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AKA: Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Nationality: American
Birthdate: 03/27/1963
Birthplace: Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

biography

The career of Quentin Tarantino instantly became the stuff of Hollywood legend. Of course, winning an Oscar, Golden Globe and numerous critics' awards for Best Original Screenplay for the groundbreaking and much-imitated "Pulp Fiction" (1994) added significantly to his luster. Not bad for a high school dropout who picked up much of his film education while working as a video store clerk. For better or worse, the entertainment press selected Tarantino as the symbol of a new generation of young, hot directors. Hailed by Variety as "the video store generation of filmmakers,” these would-be Continued

Credits

Director
2009
Screenplay
2009
Producer
2009
Screenplay
2009
Executive Producer
2008
Interviewee
2008
Executive Producer
2007
Producer
2007
Director
2007
Screenplay
2007
(TV Show)
2006-2006
Executive Producer
2006
Executive Producer
2005
(TV Show)
2005-2005
Director
2005
Story By
2005
Special Guest Director
2005
Screenplay
2004
Based on the Character The Bride
2004
Director
2004
(TV Show)
2004-2004
McKenas Cole
2004
Source Material
2003
Director
2003
Screenplay
2003
Producer
2001
Producer
1999
Director
1997
screenplay
1997
Director
1996
screenplay
1996
Executive Producer
1996
Executive Producer
1996
Screenplay
1996
Executive Producer
1996
Richard Gecko
1996
screenplay
1996
Pick-up Guy
1995
(TV Show)
1995-1995
Director
1995
Screenplay
1994
Director
1994
Stories By
1994
Executive Producer
1994
From Story
1994
Mr Brown
Presented By
Herself
Characters as Source Material
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Director
screenplay
screenplay
presenter

milestones

Year
Milestone
 
Began making (unfinished) first film, "My Best Friend's Birthday" from a screenplay co-written with Craig Hamann; they both co-starred
1985 
Spent five years working at Video Archives, a well-stocked video store in Manhattan Beach, CA; co-worker was future writing collaborator Roger Avary
 
Hired with Avary as production assistants for a Dolph Lundgren video after impressing producer John Langley - a regular customer at Video Archives - with their film knowledge
 
Met future producer Lawrence Bender while working at Cinetel Productions
1990 
Made acting debut, as an Elvis impersonator, in an episode of NBC's "The Golden Girls"
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