Quentin Tarantino
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 up acting while attending the acting school, saying that he admired directors more than actors. Tarantino also worked in a video rental store before becoming a filmmaker, paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent, and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career.
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Acting (89 movies)
Four Rooms
1995
Reservoir Dogs
1992
Pulp Fiction
1994
From Dusk Till Dawn
1996
Death Proof
2007
Planet Terror
2007
The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
2005
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview
2023
Desperado
1995
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019
Little Nicky
2000
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007
Full Tilt Boogie
1998
50 Films to See Before You Die
2006
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
2008
God Said, 'Ha!'
1998
Destiny Turns on the Radio
1995
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004
BaadAsssss Cinema
2002
Django Unchained
2012
Sleep with Me
1994
Double Dare
2004
Corman's World
2011
Shoot to Live
2022
The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 1'
2003
The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2'
2004
The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera
1996
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
2005
John Travolta: The Inside Story
2004
Why Are We Creative?
2018
The Moviemakers: Tarantino
2023
The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
Sly
2023
Halftime
2022
Nightmare Factory
2011
Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone
2000
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004
Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's
1998
Curdled
1996
American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective
2022
Kisses in the Dark
1998
Grindhouse
2007
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
A Love Letter To Making Movies
2020
Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder
1994
Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema
2007
Nos Bastidores de Hollywood
2005
She's Funny That Way
2015
You Talkin' to Me?
1994
Tarantino's Mind
2006
We Are Cinema
2021
A Christmas Eve Conversation With Quentin Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson
2015
The Hateful Eight
2015
Inglourious Basterds
2009
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
Back to the Well: 'Clerks II'
2006
Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
2022
Reservoir Dogs
1991
Quentin Tarantino: A Life in Pictures
2010
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
2019
Vegetables
1989
Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking
2013
Jackie Brown
1997
One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film
2014
Jackie Brown: How It Went Down
2002
Friedkin Uncut
2018
Girl 6
1996
The Great Buster: A Celebration
2018
POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
2011
Forever Hollywood
1999
Not Quite Hollywood
2008
Ennio
2022
Diary of the Dead
2007
All the Love You Cannes!
2002
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
2020
‘Reservoir Dogs’ Revisited
2005
Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis
2011
John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood
2017
Michael Cimino, God Bless America
2022
QT8: The First Eight
2019
Somebody to Love
1994
I Tarantiniani
2013
Mario Bava: Operazione paura
2004
Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet
2024
Eddie Presley
1993
Pulp Fiction: The Facts
2002
When We Went MAD!
2025
Plankton Salesmen
2017
Directing (15 movies)
Four Rooms
1995
Grindhouse
2007
Reservoir Dogs
1991
Reservoir Dogs
1992
Pulp Fiction
1994
Jackie Brown
1997
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
2004
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
2003
Death Proof
2007
Inglourious Basterds
2009
Django Unchained
2012
The Hateful Eight
2015
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
2011
Chicks Who Love Guns
1997
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Reservoir Dogs | 1991 | Writer |
| Reservoir Dogs | 1992 | Writer |
| True Romance | 1993 | Screenplay |
| True Romance | 1993 | Writer |
| Killing Zoe | 1993 | Executive Producer |
| Pulp Fiction | 1994 | Writer |
| Dance Me to the End of Love | 1995 | Writer |
| Four Rooms | 1995 | Executive Producer |
| Four Rooms | 1995 | Writer |
| From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Screenplay |
| From Dusk Till Dawn | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| Curdled | 1996 | Executive Producer |
| Jackie Brown | 1997 | Screenplay |
| God Said, 'Ha!' | 1998 | Executive Producer |
| From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money | 1999 | Executive Producer |
| From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter | 2000 | Executive Producer |
| Hero | 2002 | Executive Producer |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 1 | 2003 | Writer |
| Kill Bill: Vol. 2 | 2004 | Screenplay |
| My Name Is Modesty: A Modesty Blaise Adventure | 2004 | Executive Producer |
| The Protector | 2005 | Executive Producer |
| Daltry Calhoun | 2005 | Executive Producer |
| Hostel | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| Freedom's Fury | 2006 | Executive Producer |
| Planet Terror | 2007 | Producer |
| Grindhouse | 2007 | Writer |
| Grindhouse | 2007 | Producer |
| Death Proof | 2007 | Screenplay |
| Death Proof | 2007 | Producer |
| Hostel: Part II | 2007 | Executive Producer |
| Sukiyaki Western Django | 2007 | Executive Producer |
| Hell Ride | 2008 | Executive Producer |
| Inglourious Basterds | 2009 | Writer |
| Stolz der Nation | 2009 | Producer |
| Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair | 2011 | Writer |
| The Man with the Iron Fists | 2012 | Producer |
| Django Unchained | 2012 | Writer |
| The Hateful Eight | 2015 | Screenplay |
| Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | 2019 | Producer |
| Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood | 2019 | Screenplay |
| Luckless Revanchists | 2025 | Producer |