Lawrence Bender

**Lawrence Bender** (born October 17, 1957) is an American movie producer. He became famous when he was the producer of _Reservoir Dogs_ in 1992. He has produced all of Quentin Tarantino's movies except _Death Proof_.

In the 1980s, he worked as a grip on the series _Tales from the Darkside_. In 1989, he produced the movie _Intruder_, in which leading roles are Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell. He has also been the producer on many other successful movies including _Good Will Hunting_, _The Mexican_, the 2007 Academy Award winning movie _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 movies 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 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_.

## 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)

## Other websites

- Lawrence Bender
- Lawrence Bender at HuffPo

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Lawrence Bender
- **image**: LawrenceBenderIBAug09.jpg
- **caption**: Bender at a premiere for _Inglourious Basterds_ in August 2009
- **birthname**: Lawrence Bender
- **birth place**: The Bronx, New York City U.S.
- **occupation**: movie producer