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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Known For

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Self

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Self

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Real Time with Bill Maher

Self

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Saturday Night Live

Self - Host

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

Self

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2024	Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet	Himself
2024	Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird	(archive footage)
2023	Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview	Self
2023	Cannes Uncut	Self (Archive)
2023	The Moviemakers: Tarantino	Self (archive footage)
2023	Sly	Self
2023	Robert De Niro: Hiding in the Spotlight	Self - Interviewee (archive footage)
2022	Shoot to Live	Self
2022	Halftime	Self
2022	American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective	Self
2022	Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America	Self
2022	Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey
2022	Ennio	Self
2022	Michael Cimino, God Bless America	Self
2021	Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained	Self - Filmmaker
2021	Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend	Self
2021	We Are Cinema	Self (archive footage)
2020	A Love Letter To Making Movies	self
2020	Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth	Self
2019	Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood	Red Apple Ad Director (uncredited) (voice)
2019	What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael	Self
2019	QT8: The First Eight	Self (archive footage)
2018	Why Are We Creative?	Self
2018	Friedkin Uncut	Self
2018	The Great Buster: A Celebration	Self
2017	Plankton Salesmen	Self (archive footage)
2017	John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood	Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2015	The Legend of the Palme d'Or	Self
2015	She's Funny That Way	Quentin Tarantino
2015	A Christmas Eve Conversation With Quentin Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson	Self
2015	The Hateful Eight	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
2014	One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film	Self
2013	Propaganda	Self (archive footage)
2013	Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking	Self
2013	I Tarantiniani	Self
2012	Django Unchained	The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee
2012	12-12-12 \| The Concert for Sandy Relief	Self
2011	Corman's World	Self - Filmmaker
2011	Nightmare Factory	Self
2011	POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold	Self
2011	Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis	Self
2010	Quentin Tarantino: A Life in Pictures	Self
2009	Inglourious Basterds	First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited)
2008	Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX	Self
2008	Not Quite Hollywood	Self
2007	Death Proof	Warren
2007	Planet Terror	Rapist #1
2007	Sukiyaki Western Django	Ringo
2007	Grindhouse	Warren (segment "Death Proof") / Rapist #1 (segment "Planet Terror")
2007	Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema	Self
2007	Diary of the Dead	Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
2006	50 Films to See Before You Die	Self
2006	Tarantino's Mind	Mr. Brown / Richard Gecko (archive footage)
2006	Back to the Well: 'Clerks II'	Self
2005	The Muppets' Wizard of Oz	Self - Kermit's Director
2005	Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That	Self
2005	Nos Bastidores de Hollywood	Self
2005	‘Reservoir Dogs’ Revisited
2004	The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing	Self
2004	Double Dare	Self
2004	The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2'	Self
2004	John Travolta: The Inside Story	Self
2004	Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession	Self
2004	Celluloid Horror	Himself
2004	Mario Bava: Operazione paura	Self
2003	The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 1'	Self
2002	BaadAsssss Cinema	Self
2002	Jackie Brown: How It Went Down	Self
2002	All the Love You Cannes!	Self
2002	Pulp Fiction: The Facts	Self
2000	Little Nicky	Deacon
2000	Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone	Self
1999	Forever Hollywood	Self
1998	Full Tilt Boogie	Self
1998	God Said, 'Ha!'	Self
1998	Jackie Chan: My Story	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1998	Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's	Self
1998	Kisses in the Dark	Panhandle Slim (voice) (The Coriolis Effect)
1997	Jackie Brown	Answering Machine (voice) (uncredited)
1996	From Dusk Till Dawn	Richard Gecko
1996	The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera	Self
1996	Curdled	Ritchie Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited)
1996	Girl 6	Director #1 - NY
1995	Four Rooms	Chester
1995	Desperado	Pick-Up Guy
1995	Destiny Turns on the Radio	Destiny
1994	Pulp Fiction	Jimmie Dimmick
1994	Sleep with Me	Sid
1994	Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder	Self
1994	You Talkin' to Me?	Self
1994	The Coriolis Effect	Panhandle Slim (voice)
1994	Somebody to Love	Bartender
1993	Eddie Presley	Asylum Attendant
1992	Reservoir Dogs	Mr. Brown
1991	Reservoir Dogs	Mr. White
1989	Vegetables	Quentin
1987	My Best Friend's Birthday	Clarence Pool

Year	TV Show	Role
2025	Number One on the Call Sheet	Self
2022	Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber	Tarantino's Voice (voice)
2022	Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?	Self
2018	Eli Roth's History of Horror	Self
2016	Emigratis	Self
2016	Untraditional	Himself
2016	The Artist's Adventures	Self
2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self
2015	Lip Sync Battle	Self
2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self
2014	The Director's Chair	Self
2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self
2009	The Jay Leno Show	Self
2008	Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence	Self
2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self
2006	Scream Awards	Himself
2005	Iconoclasts	Self
2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self
2004	On Air with Ryan Seacrest	Self
2003	Duck Dodgers	Master Moloch (voice)
2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self
2003	Real Time with Bill Maher	Self
2001	Alias	McKenas Cole
1994	All-American Girl	Desmond
1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest
1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Self
1985	The Golden Girls	Elvis Impersonator
1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host
1967	Omnibus	Self
1953	The Oscars	Self
1953	The Oscars	Self - Presenter
1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter