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Fessenden

American  
[fes-uhn-duhn] / ˈfɛs ən dən /

noun

  1. William Pitt, 1806–69, U.S. statesman.


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The script by Blair Butler and Gary Dauberman is based on a PlayStation game written by filmmakers Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, who took inspiration from movies like “Evil Dead” and “Poltergeist.”

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 26, 2025

Fessenden has long been a cult-horror mainstay as producer, director, writer and actor.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 12, 2024

But Larry Fessenden, who starred and directed in one of the best vampire movies of the 1990s, the intimate New York indie “Habit,” sees new opportunities for horror.

From New York Times Oct. 30, 2021

She captured, amid a host of snaps and pops, a presentation that sounded a lot like what Fessenden described, including the swelling strings of “O, Holy Night.”

From Washington Post Dec. 31, 2019

It was the first ever wireless broadcast of a piece of recorded music: ‘Ombra mai fu\ Handel’s ‘Largo’, transmitted by an intrepid radio pioneer named Reginald Fessenden.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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