Quentin Jerome Tarantino
Currently alive, at 45 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Actors, Producers
1963 - Born on the 27th of March in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1992 - Quentin Tarantino took Hollywood by storm with the cult hit Reservoir Dogs.
1993 - Wrote and directed his next feature, Pulp Fiction, which featured three interweaving crime story lines; Tony Scott's big-budget production of True Romance was also released that year.
1994 - He was elevated from a cult figure to a major celebrity. Pulp Fiction won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that May, beginning the flood of good reviews for the picture.
- His combination of clever dialogue and brutal violence hit a new peak with Pulp Fiction, which won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and revived the career of John Travolta.
- Wrote story for movie "Natural Born Killer"
1995 - Began to dabble in acting, appearing with Antonio Banderas in Desperado, and with George Clooney in From Dusk Til Dawn.
1996 - He served as the screenwriter and executive producer for the George Clooney schlock-fest From Dusk Till Dawn, and the following year renewed some of his earlier acclaim as the director and screenwriter of Jackie Brown.
1997 - He had a solid, if not spectacular, hit with Jackie Brown, starring Pam Grier.
2003 - He announced that his film, Kill Bill would be released in two parts.
2007 - He teamed with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez for the "double feature" project, Grindhouse.
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Grindhouse: The Sleaze-filled Saga of an Exploitation Double Feature by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (Hardcover - Apr 6, 2007)  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Pulp Fiction by Quentin Tarantino (Paperback - Dec 1, 1994) Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Quentin Tarantino: Man and His Movies, The by Jami Bernard (Paperback - Dec 6, 1995) Worshiped like a film star by fans of his ultrahip and violent movies, reviled and condemned by the self-appointed guardians of mortality, Quentin Tarantino has become the cult hero of the nineties...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Natural Born Killers: The Original Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino (Paperback - Jun 25, 2000) Natural Born Killersis a disturbing and brilliant indictment of violence in the media and American celebrity culture. Mickey and Mallory Knox, outlaw lovers on the run, go on a killing spree of...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Reservoir Dogs: The Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino (Paperback - Aug 4, 2000) Quentin Tarantino's films have single-handedly revived and redefined American noir, bringing to Hollywood a new energy, irony, and cool. Tarantino has won awards and accolades around the world,... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Quentin Tarantino and Philosophy (Popular Culture and Philosophy) (Paperback - Nov 28, 2007) The films of Quentin Tarantino are ripe for philosophical speculation, raising compelling questions about justice and ethics, violence and aggression, the nature of causality, and the flow of time.... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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