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 American film producer. He rose to fame by producing "Reservoir Dogs" in fy|1992 and has produced all of Quentin 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 are Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. In addition, he has been the producer on many other successful movies including "Good Will Hunting", "The Mexican", the fy|2007 Academy 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 with Nine 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]

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*imdb name|id=0004744|name=Lawrence Bender
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lawrence-bender Lawrence Bender at HuffPo]