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Quentin Tarantino
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor, Associate Producer, Screen Story
Born:
March 27, 1963 in Knoxville, TN
Biography:Director/screenwriter/actor/producer "Quentin Tarantino" was perhaps the most distinctive and volatile talent to emerge in American film in the early '90s. Unlike the previous generation of American filmmakers, Tarantino learned his craft from his days as a video clerk rather than as a film-school student. Consequently, he developed an audacious fusion of pop culture and independent arthouse cinema; his films were thrillers that were distinguished as much by their clever, twisting dialogue as their outbursts of extreme violence. Tarantino initially began his career as an actor (his biggest role was as an "Elvis" impersonator on an episode of The Golden Girls), taking classes while he was working at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, CA.

During his time at Video Archives, the fledgling filmmaker began writing screenplays, completing his first, "True Romance", in 1987. With his co-worker, "Roger... Full Biography

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