Harvey Keitel
Acting
Biography
Harvey Johannes Keitel (born May 13, 1939) is an American actor known for his portrayal of morally ambiguous and "tough guy" characters. He rose to prominence during the New Hollywood movement, and has held a long-running association with director Martin Scorsese, starring in six of his films: Who's That Knocking at My Door (1967), Mean Streets (1973), Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974), Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and The Irishman (2019). Keitel received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor nomination for his portrayal of Mickey Cohen in Bugsy (1991). He won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for The Piano (1993). Other films include Blue Collar (1978), Thelma & Louise (1991), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Bad Lieutenant (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), From Dusk till Dawn (1996), Holy Smoke! (1998), Cop Land (1997), and Youth (2015). He has acted in the Wes Anderson films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), and Isle of Dogs (2018). He played FBI Agent Peter Sadusky in both National Treasure (2004), and National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2006) and reprised his role in the Disney+ series National Treasure: Edge of History (2022). From 1995 to 2017, he was a co-president of the Actors Studio, alongside Al Pacino and Ellen Burstyn.
Born: May 13, 1939
Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Known For
Martin Scorsese Directs
Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Thelma Schoonmaker, the director’s own parents, and others build a perception of Scorsese that not everybody knows.
Pulp Fiction
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Scorsese's GoodFellas
In this produced by Brett Ratner new retrospective documentary we hear from cast members and additional participants include Harvey Keitel, Leonardo DiCaprio and Terence Winter, creator of Boardwalk Empire and screenwriter of The Wolf of Wall Street. The program gives us thoughts about Scorsese's approach to the material, casting, characters, and performances, costumes and period details, photography, music, and retrospective thoughts about the film. It is filled with memorable stories and observations from a wide array of commentators.
Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Taxi Driver
Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Reservoir Dogs
A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and Nice Guy Eddie -- unravel.
Martin Scorsese, the Italian-American Master
Martin Scorsese is the unchallenged master of the cinematic quest for Italian-American identity. He has etched the cinematic image of the Sicilian mafiosi and the reality of America with incredible actors like DiCaprio and De Niro.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The powerful real-life story of Lali Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film
Shadows have followed Harvey Keitel wherever he went, from his blasphematory childhood, to the army and his iconic roles in films such as Scorsese’s Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. Treated as an outcast after being fired from the set of Apocalypse Now, he made a triumphant return with directors such as Tarantino and Jane Campion.
Filmography
as Jeremiah
as Finn O'Brien
as Dante
as Marpa
as Cassidy Whittaker
as Frank Ferretti
as Silvio
as Lali Sokolov (Old)
as Randall Kane
as Self (archive footage)
as Merchant
as Self
as Peter Sadusky
as Cus D'Amato
as Meyer Lansky
as General Hunter Blair
as Professor Nichols
as Self
as Abraham
as Angelo Bruno
as Priest
as Billy
as Noe
as Gondo (voice)
as Anatoly
as Demi
as Bob Fredericks
as Mac Schiltz
as Papi
as Smiley
as The Director
as Self
as Mick Boyle
as Self
as Salvatore Vitaglia
as O Ator (segment "O Milagre")
as Bill Agati
as Ludwig
as Al
as Father Johanis
as Tommy Thomas
as Commander Pierce
as Don Carini
as Randy Weir
as Duke White
as Nino
as Joseph Bruno
as OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)
as Lt. Gene Hunt
as Peter Sadusky
as Zowie
as Terrtano
as Miro (voice)
as The Merchant
as Roger Culkin
as John O'Neill
as Self
as Weldon Parish
as Nick Carr
as Uncle Pio
as Peter Sadusky
as Walter McGrane
as Himself
as Che
as Edward Robards
as Frankie Zammeti
as Self
as Matt Benson
as Self (archive footage)
as Zolo
as Jack Crawford
as El Gringo
as Self
as Steve Arnold
as SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
as Tony Romano
as Dad
as The Master
as The Guardian
as Leone
as CPO Henry Klough
as Brig. Gen. Warren Black
as PJ Waters
as Self
as James Hager
as Johnny Lowen
as Vernon
as Elvis
as Izzy Maurer
as Self
as Harry Houdini
as Ray Donlan
as Self
as Roy Egan
as George
as Self - Guest
as Jacob Fuller
as Himself (Uncredited)
as A
as Det. Rocco Klein
as Auggie Wren
as (archive footage)
as Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
as Ray Weiler
as Harry Harrelson
as The Wolf
as Self
as Azro
as Mr. White (archive footage)
as Eddie Israel
as John Harris
as Lt. Tom Graham
as George Baines
as Victor the Cleaner
as Self
as LT
as Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
as Vince LaRocca
as Mickey Cohen
as Hal
as Det. John Woods
as Sandoval
as Julius "Jake" Berman
as Self
as Roderick Usher
as Thomas
as Police Commissioner Frank Starkey
as Nikolaj Bucharin
as Self
as Judas
as Carl
as Donald Jacques (voice)
as Alonzo Scolara
as Penfield Gruber
as Ponzio Pilato
as Sacha
as Solly Berliner
as Bobby DiLea
as Mickey
as Byron Sullivan
as Klever
as Byron Sullivan
as Mr. Legend
as Ed Lasky
as Ernest Jurgens
as Ernest Jurgens
as The fugitive
as Rivas
as Lt. Fred O'Connor
as Thomas Paine
as Cat
as (segment "This Ain't Bebop")
as Inspector Netusil
as Benson
as Roddy
as Henry
as Jimmy Fingers
as Jerry Bartowski
as Gabriel Feraud
as Ken Hood
as The Relative (Ed Goodman)
as Speed
as Sport
as Self - Host
as Self - Cameo (uncredited)
as Coleman Buckmaster
as Ben Eberhardt
as Bugsy Siegel
as Jerry Talaba
as Charlie Cappa
as Seaman (uncredited)
as The Photographer (uncredited)
as Jerry
as Jerry
as Self
as Self
as Soldier (uncredited)
as Ernie
as German Soldier (uncredited)
as Self
as Eion