Name |
Larry Fessenden |
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Naionality |
American |
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Place of Birth |
New York City, New York, U.S. |
Famous for |
Acting |
Laurence T. Fessenden is an American producer, writer, director, and actor.
Baton Rouge Larry Fessenden was the winner of the 1997 Someone to Watch Spirit Award, and a nominee for the 2010 Piaget Spirit Award for producing. He is also the writer, director and editor of the award-winning art-horror trilogy Habit (nominated for 2 Spirit Awards), Wendigo and No Telling. His recent film, The Last Winter (nominated for a 2007 Gotham Award for best ensemble cast), premiered at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival and was distributed through IFC. Fessenden directed Skin and Bones for NBC TV's horror anthology Fear Itself. He wrote the screenplay with Guillermo del Toro of Orphanage, an English language remake of El Orfanato. Fessenden was awarded the 2007 Sitges Film Festival Maria Award for his work as a producer, actor, and director in genre film, and he won the 2009 Golden Hammer Award for "being such an inspiring force in the industry." In 2011, Fessenden was inducted into the "Fangoria Hall of Fame" and was honored by the UK's Total Film as an Icon of Horror during the Frightfest Film Festival.
Fessenden has been a producer on various projects including Rick Alverson's The Comedy, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (nominated for two 2009 Spirit Awards and on over 60 "Top 10 Movies of the Year" lists), Ti West's The House of the Devil and The Innkeepers, Joe Maggio's The Last Rites of Joe May, James McKenney's Satan Hates You, and Ilya Chaiken's Liberty Kid.