- Lawrence Bender
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name = Lawrence Bender
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birthdate =17 October fy|1957
birthplace =The Bronx ,New York City U.S. Lawrence Bender (born
October 17 fy|1957) is an Americanfilm producer . He rose to fame by producing "Reservoir Dogs " in fy|1992 and has produced all ofQuentin Tarantino 's films since with the exception of "Death Proof ".In the 1980s, he worked as a grip on the syndicated anthology series "
Tales from the Darkside ". In fy|1989, he produced the film "Intruder", in which leading roles areSam Raimi andBruce Campbell . In addition, he has been the producer on many other successful movies including "Good Will Hunting ", "The Mexican ", the fy|2007Academy Award winning film "An Inconvenient Truth ", "Kill Bill ", "Pulp Fiction", and the "From Dusk Till Dawn " trilogy. He was an executive producer of the "Legend of Earthsea" TV miniseries.Bender makes
cameo appearance in many of the films he produces: he was a police officer chasing Mr. Pink in "Reservoir Dogs ", a customer – billed as a "long-haired yuppie scum", a role he also played in "Four Rooms " – at the diner in "Pulp Fiction" and a hotel clerk in "Kill Bill Volume 2".Since May fy|2005 Bender has been a contributing blogger at
The Huffington Post . He now works in Hollywood running the day-to-day operations of his own production company, Lawrence Bender Productions. Bender has been working withNine Inch Nails 'Trent Reznor to create a television TV series based on the 2007 album "Year Zero".cite web
url = http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/arts/music/08pare.html?_r=3&ref=arts&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
title = Frustration and Fury: Take It. It’s Free.
publisher = "The New York Times "
last = Pareles
first = Jon
date =2008-06-08
archiveurl = http://www.webcitation.org/5YUa9v4NA
archivedate = 2008-06-11
accessdate = 2008-06-09]Filmography
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*imdb name|id=0004744|name=Lawrence Bender
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-bender Lawrence Bender atHuffPo ]
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