Laurence T. "Larry" Fessenden (born March 23, 1963) is an American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, and cinematographer.
He voiced and motion captured the role of The Stranger in the game Until Dawn and Dan T. in Until Dawn: Rush of Blood.
Early Life[]
Larry Fessenden was born in New York City, New York. Fessenden comes from a privileged background: his father was a banker, and Fessenden 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.
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.[6] 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.
Filmography[]
As actor
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | White Trash | Man Who Looks Through Trash |
| 1981 | Lifeline | Man (short) |
| 1981 | A Face in the Crowd | Narrator (voice only) |
| 1982 | Habit | Sam (video) |
| 1991 | No Telling | Eden Ridge Employee |
| 1997 | Habit | Sam |
| 2001 | Session 9 | Craig McManus |
| 2006 | The Last Winter | Charles Foster |
| 2007 | Trigger Man | Henchman |
| 2008 | I Can See You | Mickey Hauser |
| 2008 | Wendy and Lucy | Man in Park |
| 2008 | I Sell The Dead | Willy Grimes |
| 2009 | Blood Red Earth | Cowboy (short) |
| 2009 | Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever | Bill |
| 2010 | Hypothermia | Fishing Host |
| 2010 | Bitter Feast | William Coley |
| 2010 | Satan Hates You | Glumac |
| 2010 | Vanishing on 7th Street | Bike Messenger |
| 2010 | Stake Land | Roadhouse Bartender |
| 2011 | You're Next | Erik Harson |
| 2011 | Silver Bullets | Sam |
| 2012 | Wolf Dog Tales | Wolf Dog |
| 2012 | All the Light in the Sky | Rusty |
| 2012 | Bro | Louis |
| 2012 | Jug Face | Sustin |
| 2012 | The Battery | Frank |
| 2013 | We Are What We Are | Bearded Tenant |
| 2014 | Late Phases | O'Brien |
| 2014 | Worst Friends | Jerry |
| 2015 | Pod | Smith |
| 2015 | Body | Arthur |
| 2015 | We Are Still Here | Jacob Lewis |
| 2015 | In a Valley of Violence | Roy |
| 2015 | Until Dawn | The Stranger (voice and likeness) |
| 2015 | Carnage Park | |
| 2015 | Darling | Officer Maneretti |
| 2016 | The Transfiguration | Drunk Man |
| 2016 | Until Dawn: Rush of Blood | Dan T. (voice and likeness) |
As writer[]
| 1979 | The Eliminator (short) |
| 1980 | White Trash (short) |
| 1980 | The Field (short) |
| 1981 | Lifeline (short) |
| 1981 | A Face in the Crowd |
| 1982 | Habit (video) |
| 1989 | Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer |
| 1991 | No Telling |
| 1997 | Habit |
| 2001 | Wendigo |
| 2006 | The Last Winter |
| 2008 | Santa Claws (short) |
| 2015 | Until Dawn (video game) |
As director[]
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 1978 | Jaws (short) |
| 1979 | The Eliminator (short) |
| 1980 | White Trash (short) |
| 1980 | The Field (short) |
| 1981 | Lifeline (short) |
| 1981 | A Face in the Crowd |
| 1982 | Habit (video) |
| 1985 | Experienced Movers |
| 1986 | Chinatown (documentary short) |
| 1987 | Mismatch (documentary short) |
| 1989 | Hollow Venus: Diary of a Go-Go Dancer |
| 1991 | No Telling |
| 1997 | Habit |
| 2001 | Wendigo |
| 2002 | Searching for the Wendigo (documentary short) |
| 2006 | The Last Winter |
| 2008 | Fear Itself (TV series; episode Skin and Bones) |
| 2013 | Beneath |
| 2014 | Frankenstein Cannot Be Stopped (video short) |
| 2014 | The ABCs of Death 2 (segment N is for Nexus) |
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Larry Fessenden at the Internet Movie Database
Actors
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 Hayden Panettiere |
 Peter Stormare |
 Rami Malek |
 Brett Dalton |
 Meaghan Martin | ||
 Galadriel Stineman |
 Noah Fleiss |
 Nichole Bloom |
 Jordan Fisher |
 Ella Lentini | ||
 Larry Fessenden | ||||||