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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Quentin Tarantino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Late Night with Seth Meyers

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Graham Norton Show

Real Time with Bill Maher

Saturday Night Live

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Golden Globe Awards

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

All Movies (103)

• Only What We Carry2026 · as John Percy
• Dernsie: The Amazing Life of Bruce Dern2026
• The Lost Chapter: Yuki's Revenge2025 · as Bill (voice) (uncredited)
• Stella Stevens: The Last Starlet2025 · as Self
• When We Went MAD!2025 · as Self
• Sly2023 · as Self
• The Moviemakers: Tarantino2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Burt Reynolds: The Last Interview2023 · as Self
• Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey2022
• Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America2022 · as Self
• American Badass: A Michael Madsen Retrospective2022 · as Self
• Halftime2022 · as Self
• Shoot to Live2022 · as Self
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber2022 · as Tarantino (voice)
• Ennio2022 · as Self
• Michael Cimino, God Bless America2022 · as Self
• We Are Cinema2021 · as Self (archive footage)
• Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained2021 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend2021 · as Self
• Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth2020 · as Self
• A Love Letter To Making Movies2020 · as Self
• QT8: The First Eight2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019 · as Red Apple Ad Director (uncredited) (voice)
• What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael2019 · as Self
• Friedkin Uncut2018 · as Self
• The Great Buster: A Celebration2018 · as Self
• Why Are We Creative?2018 · as Self
• Plankton Salesmen2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• John Travolta, le miraculé d'Hollywood2017 · as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
• The Artist's Adventures2016 · as Self
• The Hateful Eight2015 · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• A Christmas Eve Conversation With Quentin Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson2015 · as Self
• The Legend of the Palme d'Or2015 · as Self
• She's Funny That Way2015 · as Quentin Tarantino
• One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film2014 · as Self
• I Tarantiniani2013 · as Self
• Quentin Tarantino: 20 Years of Filmmaking2013 · as Self
• Django Unchained2012 · as The LeQuint Dickey Mining Co. Employee
• 12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief2012 · as Self
• Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis2011 · as Self
• Corman's World2011 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Nightmare Factory2011 · as Self
• POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold2011 · as Self
• Quentin Tarantino: A Life in Pictures2010 · as Self
• Inglourious Basterds2009 · as First Scalped Nazi / American Soldier in 'Pride of Nation' (uncredited)
• Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX2008 · as Self
• Not Quite Hollywood2008 · as Self
• Sukiyaki Western Django2007 · as Ringo
• Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema2007 · as Self
• Diary of the Dead2007 · as Newsreader (voice) (uncredited)
• Death Proof2007 · as Warren
• Planet Terror2007 · as Rapist #1
• Grindhouse2007 · as Warren (segment "Death Proof") / Rapist #1 (segment "Planet Terror")
• Back to the Well: 'Clerks II'2006 · as Self
• 50 Films to See Before You Die2006 · as Self
• Hostel Dissected2006 · as Self
• Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That2005 · as Self
• Reservoir Dogs Revisited2005 · as (archive)
• The Muppets' Wizard of Oz2005 · as Self - Kermit's Director
• Nos Bastidores de Hollywood2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing2004 · as Self
• The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 2'2004 · as Self
• Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession2004 · as Self
• Mario Bava: Operazione paura2004 · as Self
• John Travolta: The Inside Story2004 · as Self
• Kill Bill: Vol. 22004 · as Director's voice (uncredited)
• Double Dare2004 · as Self
• Celluloid Horror2004 · as Himself
• The Making of 'Kill Bill Vol. 1'2003 · as Self
• Jackie Brown: How It Went Down2002 · as Self
• Pulp Fiction: The Facts2002 · as Self
• Pulp Fiction: Behind The Scenes Montages2002
• BaadAsssss Cinema2002 · as Self
• All the Love You Cannes!2002 · as Self
• Heart of the Festival2002 · as Self (archive footage)
• Sundance 202002 · as Himself
• Little Nicky2000 · as Deacon
• Once Upon a Time: Sergio Leone2000 · as Self
• Forever Hollywood1999 · as Self
• Full Tilt Boogie1998 · as Self
• Kisses in the Dark1998 · as Panhandle Slim (voice) (The Coriolis Effect)
• Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen's1998 · as Self
• God Said, 'Ha!'1998 · as Self
• Jackie Brown1997 · as Answering Machine (voice) (uncredited)
• Curdled1996 · as Ritchie Gecko (Archival Photo) (uncredited)
• The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera1996 · as Self
• Girl 61996 · as Director #1 - NY
• From Dusk Till Dawn1996 · as Richard Gecko
• Four Rooms1995 · as Chester
• Desperado1995 · as Pick-Up Guy
• Destiny Turns on the Radio1995 · as Destiny
• Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder1994 · as Self
• Somebody to Love1994 · as Bartender
• Sleep with Me1994 · as Sid
• Pulp Fiction1994 · as Jimmie Dimmick
• The Coriolis Effect1994 · as Panhandle Slim (voice)
• You Talkin' to Me?1994 · as Self
• Eddie Presley1993 · as Asylum Attendant
• Reservoir Dogs1992 · as Mr. Brown
• Reservoir Dogs1991 · as Mr. White
• Vegetables1989 · as Quentin
• Invisible Women— · as Self
• Tangled Up in Blue—

All TV Shows (35)

• Number One on the Call Sheet2025 · as Self
• Who's Talking to Chris Wallace?2022 · as Self
• Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber2022 · as Tarantino's Voice (voice)
• The Hateful Eight2019 · as Narrator
• Eli Roth's History of Horror2018 · as Self
• The Artist's Adventures2016 · as Self
• Untraditional2016 · as Himself
• Emigratis2016 · as Self
• The Late Show with Stephen Colbert2015 · as Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
• Lip Sync Battle2015 · as Self
• The Director's Chair2014 · as Self
• Late Night with Seth Meyers2014 · as Self
• The Jay Leno Show2009 · as Self - Guest
• Elvis Mitchell: Under the Influence2008 · as Self
• The Graham Norton Show2007 · as Self
• Scream Awards2006 · as Self
• Iconoclasts2005 · as Self
• The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson2005 · as Self
• On Air with Ryan Seacrest2004 · as Self
• Duck Dodgers2003 · as Master Moloch (voice)
• Real Time with Bill Maher2003 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live!2003 · as Self - Guest
• Alias2001 · as McKenas Cole
• The Entertainment Biz1998 · as Self
• All-American Girl1994 · as Desmond
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien1993 · as Self - Guest
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno1992 · as Self
• The Golden Girls1985 · as Elvis Impersonator
• Saturday Night Live1975 · as Self - Host
• Omnibus1967 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self - Presenter
• Golden Globe Awards1944 · as Self - Presenter