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Name
Harvey Keitel

Known For
Acting

Birthday
1939-05-13 (87 years old)

Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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.

Known For

Movies

Tv Shows

1976 Taxi Driver as Sport
1973 Mean Streets as Charlie Cappa
2006 A Crime as Roger Culkin
1992 Reservoir Dogs as Mr. White / Larry Dimmick
2004 National Treasure as Sadusky
1995 Smoke as Augustus 'Auggie' Wren
1991 Thelma & Louise as Hal
1997 Cop Land as Ray Donlan
1994 Pulp Fiction as The Wolf
1993 The Piano as George Baines
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn as Jacob Fuller
2000 U-571 as CPO Henry Klough
1991 Bugsy as Mickey Cohen
1992 Sister Act as Vince LaRocca
1999 Three Seasons as James Hager
2005 Be Cool as Nick Carr
1993 Point of No Return as Victor the Cleaner
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ as Judas
1995 Clockers as Det. Rocco Klein
1995 Blue in the Face as Auggie Wren
1996 Head Above Water as George
1982 The Border as Cat
2000 Fail Safe as Brig. Gen. Warren Black
2002 Taking Sides as Steve Arnold
2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets as Sadusky
1991 Mortal Thoughts as Det. John Woods
1995 Ulysses' Gaze as A
2026 Hellfire as Jeremiah
2003 Crime Spree as Frankie Zammeti
1993 Rising Sun as Lt. Tom Graham
1986 Wise Guys as Bobby DiLea
1993 The Young Americans as John Harris
1989 The January Man as Police Commissioner Frank Starkey
1992 Bad Lieutenant as LT
2009 Wrong Turn at Tahoe as Nino
2005 Shadows in the Sun as Weldon Parish
1980 Bad Timing as Inspector Netusil
2002 Red Dragon as Jack Crawford
1990 The Two Jakes as Julius "Jake" Berman
2000 Little Nicky as Dad
2009 The Ministers as Joseph Bruno
2004 Puerto Vallarta Squeeze as Walter McGrane
1999 Holy Smoke as PJ Waters
2025 The Wrecker as Dante
1982 That Night of Varennes as Thomas Paine
1994 Monkey Trouble as Azro
1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson as The Relative (Ed Goodman)
1998 Full Tilt Boogie as Self
2007 One Last Dance as Terrtano
2003 Ginostra as Matt Benson
1990 Two Evil Eyes as Roderick Usher
1997 FairyTale: A True Story as Harry Houdini
1968 Who's That Knocking at My Door as J.R.
1998 Lulu on the Bridge as Izzy Maurer
2006 The Stone Merchant as The Merchant
1978 Blue Collar as Jerry Bartowski
2001 The Grey Zone as SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt
1998 Gunslinger's Revenge as Johnny Lowen
1994 Somebody to Love as Harry Harrelson
1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore as Ben Eberhardt
1978 Fingers as Jimmy Fingers
1998 Finding Graceland as Elvis
2004 The Bridge of San Luis Rey as Uncle Pio
1997 City of Industry as Roy Egan
2002 Beeper as Zolo
1987 The Pick-up Artist as Alonzo Scolara
1983 Copkiller as Lt. Fred O'Connor
2010 Little Fockers as Randy Weir
1993 Dangerous Game as Eddie Israel
1977 The Duellists as Gabriel Feraud
1985 Vanessa in the Garden as Byron Sullivan
1980 Saturn 3 as Benson
1984 Falling in Love as Ed Lasky
2010 The Last Godfather as Don Carini
1998 Shadrach as Vernon
1985 Star Knight as Klever
1994 Imaginary Crimes as Ray Weiler
1986 The Men's Club as Solly Berliner
2000 Presence of Mind as The Master
2010 A Beginner's Guide to Endings as Duke White
1986 Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) as Frankie
1987 Blindside as Penfield Gruber
1983 Exposed as Rivas
2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel as Ludwig
2026 Kill Code as Eion
1994 Who Do You Think You're Fooling? as Mr. White (archive footage)
2012 Fatal Honeymoon as Tommy Thomas
2013 The Congress as Al
1979 Eagle's Wing as Henry
2005 The Outsider as Self
1988 Dear Gorbachev as Nikolaj Bucharin
1986 The Inquiry as Ponzio Pilato
2000 Prince of Central Park as The Guardian
2007 My Sexiest Year as Zowie
2002 Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film as Self
2003 The Galíndez File as Edward Robards
1998 Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs as Self
1975 That's the Way of the World as Coleman Buckmaster
2014 Two Men in Town as Bill Agati
Soon Live Fast, Die Laughing
2013 A Farewell to Fools as Father Johanis
1984 Dream One as Mr. Legend
2012 Moonrise Kingdom as Commander Pierce
2024 Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film as Self (archive footage)
1988 Hello Actors Studio as Self
2014 By the Gun as Salvatore Vitaglia
2003 A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon' as Self
1999 Making 'Taxi Driver' as Self
Soon Paradise Inc. as Hubert Humbolt
2024 Joe Baby as Randall Kane
2024 Spread as Frank Ferretti
1976 Welcome to L.A. as Ken Hood
1986 Off Beat as Mickey
2003 Dreaming of Julia as Che
1990 Drums of Fire as Sandoval
1988 Down Where the Buffalo Go as Carl
2015 Youth as Mick Boyle
Soon Theirs
2025 Milarepa as Marpa
1983 A Stone in the Mouth as The Fugitive
2024 Paradox Effect as Silvio
1976 Mother, Jugs & Speed as Speed
2015 Behind the White Glasses as Self
2001 Nailed as Tony Romano
1994 Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder as Self
1990 White Hunter as Thomas
2027 Fate
2015 The Ridiculous 6 as Smiley
2009 Inglourious Basterds as OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)
1971 Brewster McCloud as The Photographer (uncredited)
2019 The Irishman as Angelo Bruno
2023 Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between as Self
1995 Amazing Stories: The Movie IV as Byron Sullivan (archive footage)
2016 Chosen as Papi
1970 Street Scenes 1970 as Self
1989 This Ain't Bebop
1989 Imagining America
2016 The Comedian as Mac Schiltz
2018 Isle of Dogs as Gondo (voice)
2014 Rio, I Love You as O Ator
2025 The Letter as Finn O'Brien
2017 Madame as Bob Fredericks
1974 Virginia Hill as Bugsy Siegel
1985 Baciami Strega
1996 The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money as Self
2004 This Year in Czernowitz as Self
2018 The Last Man as Noe
2019 The Painted Bird as Priest
2015 Outlaws as The Director
2018 First We Take Brooklyn as Anatoly
2018 Lies We Tell as Demi
2003 Chasing The Elephant as The Mystery Man
1986 The American Bride as Sacha
1990 Martin Scorsese Directs as Self
2000 Viper as Leone
2019 Esau as Abraham
2020 Fatima as Professor Nichols
2003 Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty
2019 See You Soon as Billy
2000 The Ten Commandments of Creativity as Self
2021 Lansky as Meyer Lansky
2015 Scorsese's GoodFellas as Self
1995 Get Shorty as Harvey Keitel (uncredited)
1973 Pueblo as Seaman (uncredited)
1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye as Soldier (uncredited)
1980 Death Watch as Roddy
2021 Blood on the Crown as General Hunter Blair
1987 Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam as Donald Jacques (voice)
2002 Nowhere as El Gringo
2014 Gandhi of the Month as Edward Baker
2020 11 Colours of the Bird as Self
2003 The John Garfield Story as Self
2002 Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds as Self (archive footage)
1988 Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of Christ as Self
1971 A Memory of Two Mondays as Jerry
2023 The Baker as Merchant
2021 Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend as Self (archive footage)
2025 Laws of Man as Cassidy Whittaker
1993 Inside 'The Piano' as Self
2006 Arthur and the Invisibles as Miro (voice)
2003 Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood as Self
2016 Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A as Self
1992 Blast 'Em as Self (uncredited)
2001 Adam Sandler Goes to Hell as Self
Soon Untitled Harvey Keitel/Daphna Kastner Film
Soon Minute Mark
Soon Pawn Shop
Soon The Method as Robert

1994 Inside the Actors Studio ( 1 episode ) as Self
1965 The F.B.I. ( 1 episode ) as Ernie
1997 The View ( 1 episode ) as Self
1973 Kojak ( 1 episode ) as Jerry Talaba
2008 Life on Mars ( 17 episodes ) as Lt. Gene Hunt
2006 The Path to 9/11 ( 2 episodes ) as John O'Neill
2002 V Graham Norton ( 1 episode ) as Self
2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert ( 1 episode ) as Self
2024 The Tattooist of Auschwitz ( 6 episodes ) as Lali Sokolov (Old)
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Self - Host
1985 Amazing Stories ( 1 episode ) as Byron Sullivan
1965 Hogan's Heroes ( 1 episode ) as German Soldier (uncredited)
2023 100 Years of Warner Bros. ( 2 episodes ) as Self
1996 The Rosie O'Donnell Show ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
2022 Mike ( 2 episodes ) as Cus D'Amato
2022 National Treasure: Edge of History ( 1 episode ) as Peter Sadusky
1953 The Oscars ( 1 episode ) as Self
1971 Great Performances ( 1 episode ) as Jerry
1967 Omnibus ( 1 episode ) as Self
1984 La bella Otero ( 4 episodes ) as Ernest Jurgens
1986 The Ellen Burstyn Show ( 1 episode ) as Frank Tanner
2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self
1988 The Play on One ( 1 episode ) as Carl
1975 Saturday Night Live ( 1 episode ) as Siegfried (uncredited)
1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Harvey Keitel

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