Larry Fessenden

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Laurence T. "Larry" Fessenden (born March 23, 1963) is an American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, and cinematographer. He has starred in films such as The Last Winter (2006), I Can See You (2008), Bitter Feast (2010), You're Next (2011), and We Are Still Here (2015). His screenwriting efforts include Habit (1997), Wendigo (2001), and The Last Winter (2006), all of which he also directed. He has also directed Beneath (2013), and a segment of the anthology horror comedy film The ABCs of Death 2 (2014).

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Personal life

Larry Fessenden was born in New York City, New York. he attended St. Bernard's School, then Phillips Academy, from which he was expelled. He is married to Beck Underwood and the couple has one child.

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Career

Fessenden has operated the production company Glass Eye Pix since 1985. Fessenden was influenced by the old Universal Monsters.

An actor, screenwriter, director and film editor, he has worked, in addition to feature films, on such television projects as the NBC horror anthology Fear Itself (2008), directing the episode "Skin and Bones". He wrote the screenplay of Orphanage (2007) with Guillermo del Toro, an English-language remake of El Orfanato.

Fessenden has worked as a mentor to young directors, such as Jim Mickle and Ti West. He has been a producer on projects including Ilya Chaiken's Liberty Kid (2007), Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008), James McKenney's Satan Hates You (2010), West's The House of the Devil (2009) and The Innkeepers (2011), Joe Maggio's The Last Rites of Joe May (2011), and Rick Alverson's The Comedy (2012). Under his low-budget horror banner ScareFlix, Fessenden has produced films including West's The Roost (2005) and Trigger Man (2007), Glenn McQuaid's I Sell the Dead (2008), Maggio's Bitter Feast (2010), and Mickle's Stake Land (2010).

As a character actor, Fessenden has appeared in numerous films, including Martin Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead (1999), Steve Buscemi's Animal Factory (2000), Brad Anderson's Session 9 (2001) and Vanishing on 7th Street (2010), Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (2005), Neil Jordan's The Brave One (2007), McQuaid's I Sell the Dead (2008), Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008), Mickle's Mulberry Street (2006) and Stake Land (2010), and Joe Swanberg's Silver Bullets (2011). Fessenden stars in and has directed the films Habit (1997), Wendigo (2001), and The Last Winter (2006). Fessenden also starred in the Sundance Film Festival pictures River of Grass (1994) directed by Reichardt, and Margarita Happy Hour (2001) directed by Chaiken.

In 2010, Fessenden produced Tales from Beyond the Pale, a 10-episode audio series. In 2011, he released his third rock album with the band Just Desserts. In 2012, he executive produced and was interviewed in the documentary Birth of the Dead, which examines the legacy of Night of the Living Dead. In 2015, he starred alongside Alexandra Turshen and Lauren Molina in the thriller Body and portrayed Smith in the mystery thriller film Pod, in which he also acted as executive producer. Fessenden will star alongside Noah Segan as one of the leads in Joe Begos' revenge thriller The Mind's Eye.

In 2015, Fessenden voiced the DJ in the horror anthology Southbound and played the role of a mysterious stranger armed with a flamethrower in interactive game Until Dawn. In 2016, he produced and co-starred in his son Jack's feature debut, Stray Bullets.

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Awards and honors

Awards

• Won - 1997 Independent Spirit Award Someone to Watch Award (Habit)
• Nominated - 1997 Independent Spirit Award for Best Director (Habit)
• Nominated - 1997 Austin Film Festival Award for Best Feature Film (Habit)
• Won - 1999 Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival Audience Award for Feature Film (Habit)
• Won - 1999 Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival Award for Best Editing (Habit)
• Won - 1999 Williamsburg Brooklyn Film Festival Award for Best Actor (Habit)
• Won - 2001 Woodstock Film Festival Jury Prize for Best Feature Film (Wendigo)
• Nominated - 2003 Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Screenplay (Wendigo)
• Won - 2007 Sitges Film Festival Maria Honorary Award (Himself)
• Nomination - 2009 Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature Film (Wendy and Lucy)
• Won - 2009 AFI Award for Movie of the Year (Wendy and Lucy)
• Nominated - 2010 Piaget Spirit Award for Producing (Himself)
• Nominated - 2010 Independent Spirit Award Producers Award (I Sell the Dead and The House of the Devil)
• Won - 2011 Chlotrudis Award for Career So Far (Himself)
• Nominated - 2014 Chicago International Film Festival Audience Choice Award (The ABCs of Death 2)

Honors

• 2011 - Inducted into the Fangoria Hall of Fame
• 2011 - Total Film Icon of Horror at the London FrightFest Film Festival

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Filmography

As actor

• "Psychopaths" (2017)
• Most Beautiful Island as Rudy (2017)
• "Small Crimes" (2017) as Earl
• "Like Me" (2017) as Marshall
• "Girlfriend's Day" as Taft (2017)
• "The Stakelander" (2016) as Biggs
• "Until Dawn: Rush of Blood" as Dan T (2016) (Video Game)
• Stray Bullets as Charlie (2016)
• "No Way to Live" as Jerry (2016)
• The Transfiguration (2016) as Drunk Man
• "Carnage Park" as Travis (2016)
• Darling (2015) as Officer Maneretti
• Until Dawn as the Stranger (2015) (Video game; voice and likeness)
• We Are Still Here as Jacob Lewis (2015)
• Body as Arthur (2015)
• Pod as Smith (2015)
• Worst Friends as Jerry (2014)
• Late Phases as O'Brien (2014)
• We Are What We Are as Bearded Tenant (2013)
• "Ritual" as Motel Clerk (2013)
• Jug Face as Sustin (2012)
• Wolf Dog as Wolf Dog (2012)
• Hellbenders as Detective Elrod (2012)
• Wolf Dog Tales as Wolf Dog (2012) (Video short; voice only)
• Silver Bullets as Sam (2011)
• You're Next as Erik Harson (2011)
• Stake Land as Roadhouse Bartender (2010)
• Vanishing on 7th Street as Bike Messenger (2010)
• Satan Hates You as Glumac (2010)
• Bitter Feast as William Coley (2010)
• Hypothermia as Fishing Host (2010)
• Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever as Bill (2009)
• I Sell The Dead as Willy Grimes (2008)
• Wendy and Lucy as Man in Park (2008)
• I Can See You as Mickey Hauser (2008)
• The Last Winter as Charles Foster (2006)
• "The Roost" as Tow Truck Driver (2005)
• "The Off Season" as Phil (2004)
• Session 9 as Craig McManus (2001)
• "Animal Factory" as Benny (2000)
• "Hamlet" as Kissing Man (2000)
• "Bringing Out The Dead" as Cokehead (1999)
• Habit as Sam (1997)
• River of Grass as Lee Ray Harold (1994)
• No Telling as Eden Ridge Employee (1991)
• Habit as Sam (1982) (Video)
• A Face in the Crowd as Narrator (1981) (Voice only)
• Lifeline as Man (1981) (Short)
• White Trash as Man Who Looks Through Trash (1980) (Short)

As writer

• "Until Dawn: Rush of Blood" (2016) (Video Game)
• Until Dawn (2015) (Video game)
• Santa Claws (2008) (Short)
• The Last Winter (2006)
• Wendigo (2001)
• Habit (1997)
• No Telling (1991)
• Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer (1989)
• Habit (1982) (V)
• A Face in the Crowd (1981)
• Lifeline (1981) (Short)
• The Field (1980) (Short)
• White Trash (1980) (Short)
• The Eliminator (1979) (Short)

As director

• The ABCs of Death 2 (2014) (Segment: "N is for Nexus")
• Frankenstein Cannot Be Stopped (2014) (Video short)
• Beneath (2013)
• Fear Itself (2008) (TV series; episode: "Skin and Bones")
• The Last Winter (2006)
• Searching for the Wendigo (2002) (Documentary short)
• Wendigo (2001)
• Habit (1997)
• No Telling (1991)
• Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer (1989)
• Stunt: A Musical Motion Picture (1989) (Short)
• Mismatch (1987) (Documentary short)
• Chinatown (1986) (Documentary short)
• Experienced Movers (1985)
• Habit (1982) (Video)
• A Face in the Crowd (1981)
• Lifeline (1981) (Short)
• The Field (1980) (Short)
• White Trash (1980) (Short)
• The Eliminator (1979) (Short)
• Jaws (1978) (Short)

As Producer

• "The Stakelander" Producer (2016)
• "Stray Bullets" Producer (2016)
• "Callback" Co-Producer (2016)
• "Certain Women" Executive Producer (2016)
• "Darling" Executive Producer (2015)
• "Late Phases" Producer (2014)
• "Beneath" Producer (2013)
• "The Innkeepers" Producer (2011)
• "Hypothermia" Producer (2010)
• "Stake Land" Producer (2010)
• "Satan Hates You" Producer (2010)
• "Bitter Feast" Producer (2010)
• "The House of the Devil" Producer (2009)
• "I Sell the Dead" Producer (2008)
• "Wendy and Lucy" Producer (2008)
• "I Can See You" Executive Producer (2008)
• "Trigger Man" Executive Producer (2007)
• "The Last Winter" Producer (2006)
• "Automatons" Executive Producer (2006)
• "The Roost" Executive Producer (2005)
• "The Off Season" Executive Producer (2004)
• "River of Grass" Associate Producer (1994)

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See also

• Antidote Films
• Jeff Levy-Hinte

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References

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External links

• Larry Fessenden on IMDb
• Glass Eye Pix
• "Must-Read Interview with 'Bitter Feast' Indie Producer Larry Fessenden!". Bloody-disgusting.com. Retrieved 2011-08-04. 

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