Quentin Tarantino Biography (1963-)

Full name, Quentin Jerome Tarantino; born March 27, 1963, in Knoxville, TN; son of Tony Tarantino (an amateur musician) and Connie Zastoupil (a nurse andlater a health care executive); stepson of Curt Zastoupil (a musician). Addresses: Office: A Band Apart Productions, 112 Capra Bldg., 10202 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232.; Agent: Mike Simpson, William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212-2775.; Manager: Rigney Friedman Business Management, 12400 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 850, Los Angeles, CA 90025.; Publicist: Bumble Ward, Bumble Ward & Associates Public Relations,8383 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 340, Beverly Hills, CA 90211.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, writer, producer, actor
Birth Details: March 27, 1963; Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Director
Reservoir Dogs, Miramax, 1992
Pulp Fiction, Miramax, 1994
"The Man from Hollywood," Four Rooms, Miramax, 1995
Jackie Brown (also known as Rum Punch), Miramax, 1997
40 Lashes, 1999
Kill Bill, Miramax, 2003
Executive Producer
(With Lawrence Bender) Killing Zoe, October Films, 1994
(With Alexandre Rockwell) Four Rooms, Miramax, 1995
Curdled, Miramax, 1996
From Dusk Till Dawn, Dimension, 1996
God Said "Ha!," Oh, Brother Productions, 1998
From Dusk Till Dawn: The Hangman's Daughter, Miramax, 1999
From Dusk Till Dawn: Texas Blood Money, Miramax, 1999
Producer
Mighty Peking Man, Cowboy Pictures/Rolling Thunder Pictures, 1999
(Producer of rerelease) Siunin Wong Fei-hung tsi titmalau (also known as Iron Monkey, Iron Monkey: The Young Wong Fei Hong, and Shai nian Huang Fei-Hong zhi tie ma liu; originally released in 1993, 2001
Kill Bill, Miramax, 2003
Film Appearances
Mr. Brown, Reservoir Dogs, Miramax, 1992
Hospital orderly, Eddie Presley, 1993
Bartender at Club X, Somebody to Love, October Films, 1994
Jimmie, Pulp Fiction, Miramax, 1994
Sid, Sleep with Me, United Artists, 1994
Voice of Panhandle Slim, The Coriolis Effect (also known as Kisses in the Dark), 1994
Chester, "The Man from Hollywood," Four Rooms, Miramax, 1995
Johnny Destiny, Destiny Turns on the Radio, Savoy Pictures, 1995
Pickup guy, Desperado (also known as El Mariachi 2), Columbia, 1995
Q. T., Girl 6, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1996
Richard Gecko, Curdled, Miramax, 1996
Richard Gecko, From Dusk Till Dawn, Dimension, 1996
Himself, Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's, Northern Arts Entertainment, 1996
Answering machine voice, Jackie Brown (also known as Rum Punch), Miramax, 1997
Himself, Full Tilt Boogie, Miramax, 1997
Himself, God Said "Ha!," Oh, Brother Productions, 1998
Himself, Jackie Chan: My Story, 1998
Himself, Forever Hollywood, 1999
Deacon, Little Nicky, New Line Cinema, 2000
Lucy Picard Is Famous, First Look Pictures Releasing, 2001
Himself, All the Love You Cannes!, 2002
Himself, Baadasssss Cinema, 2002
Himself, Pulp Fiction: The Facts, 2002

Himself, Planet of the Pitts, 2003
Voice of Pai Mei, Kill Bill, Miramax, 2003
Once upon a Time in Mexico, Columbia, 2003
Television Work
Director; Episodic
"Motherhood," ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, 1995
Television Appearances
Episodic
Himself, The Last Resort with Jonathan Ross (also known as TheLast Resort), Channel 4, 1987
Elvis impersonator, "Sophia's Wedding: Part 1," Golden Girls, NBC,1988
"The President's Coming! The President's Coming: Parts 1 & 2," TheGolden Girls, NBC, 1990
Himself, Alternative Nation, MTV, 1994
"Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder," Omnibus, BBC, 1994
The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS, 1994
Charlie Rose, PBS, c. 1994
Desmond Winocki, "Pulp Sitcom," All American Girl, ABC, 1995
Host, Saturday Night Live (also known as NBC's Saturday Night, Saturday Night, and SNL), NBC, 1995
Himself, American Cinema, PBS, 1995
Himself, "Computers," Dennis Miller Live, HBO, 1996
The Entertainment Business, Bravo, 1998
The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS, 1998
Himself, Christopher Jones: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1999
Himself, Intimate Portrait: Pam Grier, Lifetime, 1999
McKenas Cole, "The Box: Parts 1 & 2," Alias, ABC, 2002
Specials
Himself, Anatomy of Horror, UPN, 1995
(In archive footage) Himself, MST3K Little Gold Statue Preview Special, Comedy Central, 1995
MTV News Raw, MTV, 1995
Himself, The Typewriter, the Rifle, and the Movie Camera, Independent Film Channel, 1996
Awards Presentations
Presenter, The 1995 MTV Movie Awards, MTV, 1995
The American Film Institute Salute to Clint Eastwood, 1996
Stage Appearances
Harry Roat, Wait until Dark, Wilbur Theatre, Boston, MA, then Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, both 1998
Appeared in community theatre productions.
RECORDINGS
Video Games
Jack Cavallo, Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, Knowledge Adventure, 1996
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Captain Peachfuzz and the Anchovy Bandit, 1985
Reservoir Dogs, Miramax, 1992, published in Reservoir Dogs andTrue Romance: Two Screenplays, Grove Press (New York City), 1995
True Romance, Warner Bros., 1993, published in Reservoir Dogs and True Romance: Two Screenplays, Grove Press, 1995
(With Julia Sweeney and Jim Emerson) It's Pat, Buena Vista, 1994
(Author of story) Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros., 1994, published by Regency, 1994
(With Roger Avary) Pulp Fiction, Miramax, 1994, published as Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay, Hyperion (New York City), 1994, published in England as Pulp Fiction: Three Stories about One Story, Faber (London), 1994
(Rewriter with Michael Schiffer and Richard P. Henrick) Crimson Tide, Buena Vista, 1995
"The Man from Hollywood," Four Rooms, Miramax, 1995
(With Robert Kutzman) From Dusk Till Dawn, Dimension, 1996, published by Hyperion, 1995
(Author of news report) Curdled, Miramax, 1996
(With David Weisberg and Douglas Cook) The Rock, Buena Vista, 1996
Jackie Brown (also known as Rum Punch; based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard), Miramax, 1997, published as Jackie Brown: A Screenplay, Hyperion, 1997
(Author of story) From Dusk Till Dawn: Texas Blood Money, Miramax,1999
Kill Bill (based on his novel), Miramax, 2003
Teleplays
Movies
(With Frank Norwood) Past Midnight, 1992
Episodic
"Motherhood," ER (also known as Emergency Room), NBC, 1995
Novels
Author of the novel Kill Bill, 2003
Nonfiction
Quentin Tarantino: Interviews, edited by Gerald Peary, UniversityPress of Mississippi (Jackson), 1998
(With Christopher Heard) Ten Thousand Bullets: The Cinematic Journey of John Woo, Lone Eagle, 1999
Quentin Tarantino: The Film Geek Files, edited by Paul Woods, Plexus, 2000

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Bernard, Jimi, Quentin Tarantino: The Man and His Movies, Harper,1995
Clarkson, Wensley, Quentin Tarantino: Shooting from the Hip, Overlook Press (Woodstock, NY), 1995
Dawson, Jeff, Quentin Tarantino: The Cinema of Cool, Applause Books (New York City), 1995
Newsmakers 1995, Issue 4, Gale, 1995
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, St. James Press, 2000

Periodicals

Cineaste, summer, 1995, p. 4
Entertainment Weekly, December 30, 1994, p. 23
Film Comment, January/February, 1996, pp. 83-88
Interview, April, 1995, p. 42
Literature-Film Quarterly, January, 1998, pp. 60-66
Movieline, August, 1994, pp. 51-54, 88, 90
Newsweek, June 6, 1994, p. 79
New York Times Biographical Service, December 6, 1992, pp. 1571-74
People Weekly, March 23, 1998, p. 130
Rolling Stone, October 6, 1994, pp. 79-81; November 3, 1994, pp. 77-80, 110; January 22, 1998, pp. 61-62
Time, November 16, 1992, pp. 95-97
Variety, March 6, 2000, p. 7

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