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Laurence T. Fessenden (born March 23, 1963)[1] is an American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, and cinematographer.[1] He is the founder of the New York based independent production outfit Glass Eye Pix. His writer/director credits include No Telling (written with Beck Underwood, 1991), Habit (1997), Wendigo (2001), and The Last Winter (written with Robert Leaver, 2006), which is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art.[2] He has also directed the television feature Beneath (2013), an episode of the NBC TV series Fear Itself (2008) entitled "Skin and Bones", and a segment of the anthology horror-comedy film The ABCs of Death 2 (2014). He is the writer, with Graham Reznick, of the BAFTA Award-winning Sony PlayStation video game Until Dawn. He has acted in numerous films including Like Me (2017), In a Valley of Violence (2016), We Are Still Here (2015), Jug Face (2012), Broken Flowers (2005), The Dead Don't Die (2019), Bringing Out the Dead (1999) and I Sell the Dead (2009).

Larry Fessenden
Larry Fessenden in August 2010
Born	Laurence T. Fessenden (1963-03-23) March 23, 1963 (age 59) New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation	Actor producer screenwriter director film editor cinematographer
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Beck Underwood (1 child)

Personal life

Fessenden was born in New York City, New York.[1] He attended St. Bernard's School, then Phillips Academy, from which he was expelled.[3] He is married to Beck Underwood and the couple have one child.

Career

Fessenden has operated the production company Glass Eye Pix since 1985.[4] Fessenden regards the old Universal Monsters as a substantial influence for him.[5] In a review of Fessenden's film Wendigo (2001), Dave Kehr of the New York Times stated, "The independent filmmaker Larry Fessenden has set himself a challenging project: to approach the themes and thrills of the classic American horror movies through a determinedly modern approach, as if John Cassavetes had been working for Universal in the early 30s."[6]

As 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.[7]

Fessenden has worked as a mentor to young directors, such as Jim Mickle and Ti West.[8] 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). More recently he has produced for prolific horror auteur Mickey Keating with Darling (2015) and Psychopaths (2017).

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) for which he won best actor at the Slamdance Film Festival; Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (2008), Mickle's Mulberry Street (2006) and Stake Land (2010), Joe Swanberg's All the Light in the Sky (2011), and Ted Geoghegan's We Are Still Here. Fessenden also starred in the Sundance Film Festival picture River of Grass (1994), which was Reichardt's debut feature, and Margarita Happy Hour (2001) directed by Chaiken. He has appeared on television in Louie, The Strain, and as himself in National Geographic's Brain Games.

In 2010, Fessenden partnered with Glenn McQuaid to launch Tales from Beyond the Pale, a series of macabre audio dramas [8] now available as a 47 episode podcast. In 2011, he released his third rock album with the band Just Desserts, an on-going partnership with songwriter Tom Laverack.[9] In 2012, he executive produced and was interviewed in the documentary Birth of the Living Dead, which examines the legacy of Night of the Living Dead.[10] In 2016, he produced, acted, and served as cinematographer in his son Jack's feature debut, Stray Bullets.[11] The same year also saw Fessenden release a book titled, Sudden Storm, A Wendigo Reader.[12]

Fessenden has also established a strong presence in the video game world. In 2015, he and Graham Reznick collaborated on writing the video game Until Dawn. Fessenden also played the role of a mysterious stranger armed with a flamethrower in the game itself.[13] The game earned positive reviews and would go on to receive the "Original Property" award in the 2016 BAFTA Games Awards.[14] Fessenden and Reznick also set a Guinness World Record for "Longest script for a graphic adventure videogame," with their script reaching 1,000 pages.[15] The two writers would team up again in 2016 to develop a spin-off game known as Until Dawn: Rush of Blood,[16] and later in 2018 for the Until Dawn prequel, The Inpatient.[17]

Fessenden has run the company Glass Eye Pix since 1985 with the mission of "supporting individual voices in the arts." Glass Eye Pix continues to nurture young talent, most recently producing the debut features of Robert Mocker (Like Me, starring Addison Timlin and Fessenden), Ana Asensio (Most Beautiful Island), and Jenn Wexler (The Ranger).[18]

Fessenden's Frankenstein-themed feature, Depraved, which he wrote, directed, edited and produced, was released on Friday the 13th of September, 2019 through IFC Midnight.

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)[19]
• Nominated – 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)[20]
• Won – 2010 Slamdance Special Jury Mention for Best Performance (I Sell the Dead) [21]
• Nominated – 2010 Independent Spirit Award Producers Award (I Sell the Dead and The House of the Devil)[22]
• Won – 2011 Chlotrudis Award for Career So Far (Himself)
• Nominated – 2014 Chicago International Film Festival Audience Choice Award (The ABCs of Death 2)
• Nominated – 2015 Fright Meter Award for Best Supporting Actor (We Are Still Here) [23]
• Nominated – 2016 Fangoria Chainsaw Award for Best Supporting Actor (We Are Still Here)[24]
• Won – 2016 BAFTA Games Award for Original Property (Until Dawn)
• Won – 2017 Develop Award for Best Performance (Until Dawn: Rush of Blood) [25]

Honors

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

Filmography

As actor

Year	Title	Credit	Notes
TBA	Showing Up		Post-production
TBA	I Know Where You Live	Skeet	Pre-production
2023	Brooklyn 45
2022	Offseason	H. Grierson
2021	The Spine of Night	Prophet of Doom
2021	Jakob's Wife	Pastor Jakob Fedder
2020	Cold Wind Blowing	The Wolf
2019	Dementer	Larry
2019	The Dead Don't Die	Danny Perkins
2019	Depraved	Ratso
2018	Sadistic Intentions	Father
2018	The Ranger	Uncle Pete
2018	Clara's Ghost	Fan Man/Man In Bar
2017	Hidden Agenda	Vernon LeMay	Video game
2017	Psychopaths	Henry Earl Starkweather
2017	Most Beautiful Island	Rudy
2017	Small Crimes	Earl
2017	Like Me	Marshall
2017	Girlfriend's Day	Taft
2016	The Stakelander	Biggs
2016	Until Dawn: Rush of Blood	Dan T	Video game
2016	Stray Bullets	Charlie
2016	No Way to Live	Jerry
2016	Good Funk	Kevin
2016	The Transfiguration	Drunk Man
2016	Callback	Joe
2016	In a Valley of Violence	Roy
2016	Carnage Park	Travis
2015	Darling	Officer Maneretti
2015	Southbound	The D.J.	Voice Only
2015	The Mind's Eye	Mike Connors
2015	Until Dawn	Stranger	Video game; Voice & likeness
2015	We Are Still Here	Jacob Lewis
2015	Body	Arthur
2015	Pod	Smith
2014	Worst Friends	Jerry
2014	The Strain	Jack Noon	Episode: "Runaways"
2014	Louie	Upset Man	Episode: "Elevator: Part 6"
2014	Late Phases	O'Brien
2013	We Are What We Are	Bearded Tenant
2013	Ritual	Motel Clerk
2012	Jug Face	Sustin
2012	Wolf Dog	Wolf Dog
2012	Hellbenders	Detective Elrod
2012	Wolf Dog Tales	Wolf Dog	Video short; Voice only
2011	Silver Bullets	Sam
2011	You're Next	Erik Harson
2010	Stake Land	Roadhouse Bartender
2010	Vanishing on 7th Street	Bike Messenger
2010	Satan Hates You	Glumac
2010	Bitter Feast	William Coley
2010	Hypothermia	Fishing Host
2009	Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever	Bill
2009	Blood Red Earth	Cowboy	Short film
2008	I Sell The Dead	Willy Grimes
2008	Wendy and Lucy	Man in Park
2008	I Can See You	Mickey Hauser
2007	The Brave One	Sandy Combs
2007	Trigger Man	Henchman
2007	The Hunter	Kenny	Short film
2006	Mulberry St	Man Behind Gate
2006	The Pod	Telly	Short film
2006	The Last Winter	Charles Foster
2006	Automatons	Enemy Guard
2006	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Boaz	Episode: "Diamond Dogs"
2005	Headspace	Father
2005	The Resurrection Apprentice	Willy Grimes	Short film
2005	Broken Flowers	Will
2005	The Roost	Tow Truck Driver
2004	The Off Season	Phil
2004	Imaginary Heroes	Store Clerk
2002	Happy Here and Now	Clifton
2002	Bad Day for a Tow	Tow Guy	Short film
2001	Session 9	Craig McManus
2001	Third Watch	Ruby Granger	Episode: "A Hero's Rest"
2000	Animal Factory	Benny
2000	Hamlet	Kissing Man
1999	Bringing Out The Dead	Cokehead
1997	Habit	Sam
1994	River of Grass	Lee Ray Harold
1991	No Telling	Eden Ridge Employee
1982	Habit	Sam	Video
1981	A Face in the Crowd	Narrator	Voice only
1981	Lifeline	Man	Short film
1980	White Trash	Man Who Looks Through Trash	Short film

As writer

Year	Title	Notes
2019	Depraved
2019	The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan	Video game
2018	The Inpatient	Video game
2017	Hidden Agenda	Video game
2016	Until Dawn: Rush of Blood	Video game
2015	Until Dawn	Video game
2008	Santa Claws	Short film
2006	The Last Winter
2001	Wendigo
1997	Habit
1991	No Telling
1989	Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer
1982	Habit	Video
1981	A Face in the Crowd
1981	Lifeline	Short film
1980	The Field	Short film
1980	White Trash	Short film
1979	The Eliminator	Short film

As director

Year	Title	Notes
2019	Depraved
2014	The ABCs of Death 2	Segment: "N is for Nexus"
2014	Frankenstein Cannot Be Stopped	Video short
2013	Beneath
2008	Fear Itself	Episode: "Skin and Bones"
2006	The Last Winter
2002	Searching for the Wendigo	Documentary short
2001	Wendigo
1997	Habit
1991	No Telling
1989	Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer
1989	Stunt: A Musical Motion Picture	Short film
1987	Mismatch	Documentary short
1986	Chinatown	Documentary short
1985	Experienced Movers
1982	Habit	Video
1981	A Face in the Crowd
1981	Lifeline	Short film
1980	The Field	Short film
1980	White Trash	Short film
1979	The Eliminator	Short film
1978	Jaws	Short film

As producer

Year	Title	Notes
2019	Depraved	Producer
2016	The Stakelander	Producer
2016	Stray Bullets	Producer
2016	Callback	Co-Producer
2016	Certain Women	Executive Producer
2015	Darling	Executive Producer
2014	Late Phases	Producer
2013	Beneath	Producer
2011	The Innkeepers	Producer
2010	Hypothermia	Producer
2010	Stake Land	Producer
2010	Satan Hates You	Producer
2010	Bitter Feast	Producer
2009	The House of the Devil	Producer
2008	I Sell the Dead	Producer
2008	Wendy and Lucy	Producer
2008	I Can See You	Executive Producer
2007	Trigger Man	Executive Producer
2006	The Last Winter	Producer
2006	Automatons	Executive Producer
2005	The Roost	Executive Producer
2004	The Off Season	Executive Producer
1994	River of Grass	Associate Producer

See also

• Antidote Films
• Jeff Levy-Hinte

References

External links

• Larry Fessenden at IMDb
• Glass Eye Pix
• "Must-Read Interview with 'Bitter Feast' Indie Producer Larry Fessenden!". Bloody-disgusting.com. 17 June 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-04.

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