Name
Quentin Tarantino
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1963-03-27 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
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 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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- 1995 Four Rooms as Chester
- 1992 Reservoir Dogs as Mr. Brown
- 1994 Pulp Fiction as Jimmie Dimmick
- 1996 From Dusk Till Dawn as Richard Gecko
- 2007 Death Proof as Warren
- 2007 Planet Terror as Rapist #1
- 2005 The Muppets' Wizard of Oz as Self - Kermit's Director
- 2021 Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained as Self - Filmmaker
- 2023 Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview as Self
- 1995 Desperado as Pick-Up Guy
- 2019 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood as Red Apple Ad Director (uncredited) (voice)
- 2000 Little Nicky as Deacon
- 2007 Sukiyaki Western Django as Ringo
- 1998 Full Tilt Boogie as Self
- 2006 50 Films to See Before You Die as Self
- 2008 Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX as Self
- 1998 God Said, 'Ha!' as Self
- 1995 Destiny Turns on the Radio as Destiny
- 2004 The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing as Self
- 2002 BaadAsssss Cinema as Self
- 2012 Django Unchained as The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee
- 1994 Sleep with Me as Sid
- 2004 Double Dare as Self
- 2011 Corman's World as Self - Filmmaker
- 2022 Shoot to Live as Self
- 2003 The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 1' as Self
- 2004 The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2' as Self
- 1996 The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera as Self
- 2005 Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That as Self
- 2004 John Travolta: The Inside Story as Self
- 2018 Why Are We Creative? as Self
- 2023 The Moviemakers: Tarantino as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 The Legend of the Palme d'Or as Self
- 2023 Sly as Self
- 2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self
- 2022 Halftime as Self
- 2011 Nightmare Factory as Self
- 2000 Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone as Self
- 2004 Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession as Self
- 1998 Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's as Self
- 1996 Curdled as Ritchie Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited)
- 2022 American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective as Self
- 1998 Kisses in the Dark as Panhandle Slim (voice) (The Coriolis Effect)
- 2007 Grindhouse as Warren (segment "Death Proof") / Rapist #1 (segment "Planet Terror")
- 2022 Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America as Self
- 2020 A Love Letter To Making Movies as Self
- 1994 Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder as Self
- 2007 Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema as Self
- 2005 Nos Bastidores de Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 She's Funny That Way as Quentin Tarantino
- 1994 You Talkin' to Me? as Self
- 2021 We Are Cinema as Self (archive footage)
- 2004 Celluloid Horror as Himself
- 2015 A Christmas Eve Conversation With Quentin Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson as Self
- 2015 The Hateful Eight as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 2009 Inglourious Basterds as First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited)
- 2012 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief as Self
- 2006 Back to the Well: 'Clerks II' as Self
- 2022 Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
- 1991 Reservoir Dogs as Mr. White
- 2010 Quentin Tarantino: A Life in Pictures as Self
- 2019 What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael as Self
- 1989 Vegetables as Quentin
- 1994 The Coriolis Effect as Panhandle Slim (voice)
- 2013 Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking as Self
- 1997 Jackie Brown as Answering Machine (voice) (uncredited)
- 2014 One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film as Self
- 2002 Jackie Brown: How It Went Down as Self
- 2018 Friedkin Uncut as Self
- 1996 Girl 6 as Director #1 - NY
- 2018 The Great Buster: A Celebration as Self
- 2011 POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold as Self
- 1999 Forever Hollywood as Self
- 2008 Not Quite Hollywood as Self
- 2022 Ennio as Self
- 2007 Diary of the Dead as Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
- 2002 All the Love You Cannes! as Self
- 2020 Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth as Self
- 2005 Reservoir Dogs Revisited as (archive)
- 2011 Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis as Self
- 2017 John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
- 2022 Michael Cimino, God Bless America as Self
- 2019 QT8: The First Eight as Self (archive footage)
- 1994 Somebody to Love as Bartender
- 2013 I Tarantiniani as Self
- 2004 Mario Bava: Operazione paura as Self
- 2025 Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet as Self
- 1993 Eddie Presley as Asylum Attendant
- 2002 Pulp Fiction: The Facts as Self
- 2025 When We Went MAD! as Self
- 2017 Plankton Salesmen as Self (archive footage)
- 2002 Sundance 20 as Himself
- 2026 Only What We Carry as John Percy
- 2025 The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge as Bill (voice) (uncredited)
- 2004 Kill Bill: Vol. 2 as Director's voice (uncredited)
- 2022 Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber as Tarantino (voice)
- 2002 Heart of the Festival as Self (archive footage)
- Soon Invisible Women as Self
- 2002 Pulp Fiction: Behind The Scenes Montages
- 2006 Hostel Dissected as Self
- 2026 Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern
- 2016 The Artist's Adventures as Self
- Soon Tangled Up in Blue
- 2026 Robert Richardson: The White Devil as Self
- 1985 The Golden Girls ( 1 episode ) as Elvis Impersonator
- 2001 Alias ( 3 episodes ) as McKenas Cole
- 2009 The Jay Leno Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2014 The Director's Chair ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2005 Iconoclasts ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
- 1994 All-American Girl ( 1 episode ) as Desmond
- 2005 The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Duck Dodgers ( 1 episode ) as Master Moloch (voice)
- 2016 Emigratis ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 Lip Sync Battle ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2008 Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2016 Untraditional ( 9 episodes ) as Himself
- 2022 Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber ( 7 episodes ) as Tarantino's Voice (voice)
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2006 Scream Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2022 Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2004 On Air with Ryan Seacrest ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1953 The Oscars ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 2003 Real Time with Bill Maher ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 2018 Eli Roth's History of Horror ( 4 episodes ) as Self
- 2016 The Artist's Adventures ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2025 Number One on the Call Sheet ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 1967 Omnibus ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 1998 The Entertainment Biz ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2019 The Hateful Eight ( 4 episodes ) as Narrator
