Lawrence Bender

Lawrence Bender
Bender at a premiere for Inglourious Basterds in August 2009
Born	Lawrence Bender October 17, 1957 (1957-10-17) The Bronx, New York City U.S.
Occupation	Film producer

Lawrence Bender (born October 17, 1957) is an American film producer. He rose to fame by producing Reservoir Dogs in 1992 and has since produced all of Quentin Tarantino's films with the exception of Death Proof.

In the 1980s, he worked as a grip on the syndicated anthology series Tales from the Darkside. In 1989, he produced the film Intruder, in which leading roles are Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. His films to date, including such hits as Inglourious Basterds, Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting, have been honored with 29 Academy Award nominations, including three for Best Picture, and have won 6. His film An Inconvenient Truth, which raised unprecedented awareness about climate change, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His latest documentary, Countdown to Zero, features Tony Blair, Presidents, Musharef, Gorbachev, De Klerk and Carter among others, details the urgent risk posed by proliferation, terrorism, and accidental use of nuclear weapons. Other films include, From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), Anna And The King (1999), The Mexican (2001), Innocent Voices (2004), and Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992), Jackie Brown (1997), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (2004). Lawrence has also produced, Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights; Knockaround Guys; A Price Above Rubies; White Man's Burden; Killing Zoe; and Fresh. He also just finished shooting a new film, Safe (2011 film), which stars Jason Statham and will be released worldwide this year.

Bender makes cameo appearance in many of the films he produces: he was a police officer chasing Mr. Pink in Reservoir Dogs, a guest billed as a "long-haired yuppie scum" in both Pulp Fiction and Four Rooms and a hotel clerk in Kill Bill Volume 2.

Since May 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.

Bender is also a passionate social and political activist and supports many causes. In addition, Bender is on the Advisory Board to the Dean at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and serves on the board of The Creative Coalition. He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations the Pacific Council. He is a recipient of the Torch of Liberty Award from the ACLU and spends much of his time throwing fundraisers for political and social causes in Los Angeles.

Filmography

• Tale of Two Sisters (1989) (producer)
• Intruder (1989) (producer)
• Reservoir Dogs (1992) (producer)
• Fresh (1994) (producer)
• Pulp Fiction (1994) (producer)
• Killing Zoe (1994) (producer)
• Four Rooms (1995) (producer)
• White Man's Burden (1995) (producer)
• Snakeland (1996) (executive producer)
• From Dusk till Dawn (1996) (executive producer)
• Good Will Hunting (1997) (producer)
• Jackie Brown (1997) (producer)
• A Price Above Rubies (1998) (producer)
• From Dusk till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999) (executive producer)
• Anna and the King (1999) (producer)
• From Dusk till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000) (executive producer)
• Anatomy of a Hate Crime (TV) (2001) (executive producer)
• The Mexican (2001) (producer)
• Knockaround Guys (2001) (producer)
• Lost in Oz (TV) (2002) (executive producer)
• Stark Raving Mad (2002) (executive producer)
• Nancy Drew (TV) (2002) (executive producer)
• Kill Bill (2003, 2004) (producer)
• Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights (2004) (producer)
• The Survivors Club (TV) (2004) (executive producer)
• Voces inocentes (2004) (producer)
• Dr. Vegas (TV) (2004) (executive producer, "Pilot", "Limits")
• Earthsea (2004) (exeuctive producer)
• The Chumscrubber (2005) (producer)
• Build or Bust (TV) (2005) (executive producer)
• The Great Raid (2005) (producer)
• Goal! (2005) (executive producer)
• Flirt (TV) (2006) (executive producer)
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006) (producer)
• The Line-Up (TV) (2007) (executive producer)
• 88 Minutes (2007) (executive producer)
• Long Island Confidential (TV) (2008) (executive producer)
• The Youngest Candidate (2008) (producer)
• Inglourious Basterds (2009) (producer)
• Countdown to Zero (2010) (producer)
• Safe (2012) (producer)

External links

• Lawrence Bender
• Lawrence Bender at the Internet Movie Database
• Lawrence Bender at HuffPo