Harvey Keitel

Biography

Harvey 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Harvey Keitel, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Sport

Taxi Driver

Charlie Cappa

Mean Streets

Roger Culkin

A Crime

Mr. White / Larry Dimmick

Reservoir Dogs

Peter Sadusky

National Treasure

Augustus 'Auggie' Wren

Smoke

Hal

Thelma & Louise

Ray Donlan

Cop Land

The Wolf

Pulp Fiction

George Baines

The Piano

Jacob Fuller

From Dusk Till Dawn

CPO Henry Klough

U-571

Mickey Cohen

Bugsy

Vince LaRocca

Sister Act

James Hager

Three Seasons

Nick Carr

Be Cool

Victor the Cleaner

Point of No Return

Judas

The Last Temptation of Christ

Det. Rocco Klein

Clockers

Auggie Wren

Blue in the Face

George

Head Above Water

Cat

The Border

Brig. Gen. Warren Black

Fail Safe

Steve Arnold

Taking Sides

Peter Sadusky

National Treasure: Book of Secrets

Det. John Woods

Mortal Thoughts

A

Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα

Jeremiah

Hellfire

Frankie Zammeti

Crime Spree

Lt. Tom Graham

Rising Sun

Bobby DiLea

Wise Guys

John Harris

The Young Americans

Police Commissioner Frank Starkey

The January Man

LT

Bad Lieutenant

Nino

Wrong Turn at Tahoe

Weldon Parish

Shadows in the Sun

Inspector Netusil

Bad Timing

Jack Crawford

Red Dragon

Julius "Jake" Berman

The Two Jakes

Dad

Little Nicky

Joseph Bruno

The Ministers

Walter McGrane

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze

PJ Waters

Holy Smoke

The Wrecker

Thomas Paine

La Nuit de Varennes

Azro

Monkey Trouble

The Relative (Ed Goodman)

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

Self

Full Tilt Boogie

Terrtano

茶舞

Matt Benson

Ginostra

Roderick Usher

Due occhi diabolici

Harry Houdini

FairyTale: A True Story

J.R.

Who's That Knocking at My Door

Izzy Maurer

Lulu on the Bridge

The Merchant

Il mercante di pietre

Jerry Bartowski

Blue Collar

SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt

The Grey Zone

Johnny Lowen

Il mio West

Harry Harrelson

Somebody to Love

Ben Eberhardt

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Jimmy Fingers

Fingers

Elvis

Finding Graceland

Uncle Pio

The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Roy Egan

City of Industry

Zolo

Beeper

Alonzo Scolara

The Pick-up Artist

Lt. Fred O'Connor

Copkiller

Randy Weir

Little Fockers

Eddie Israel

Dangerous Game

Gabriel Feraud

The Duellists

Byron Sullivan

Vanessa in the Garden

Benson

Saturn 3

Ed Lasky

Falling in Love

Don Carini

The Last Godfather

Vernon

Shadrach

Klever

El caballero del dragón

Ray Weiler

Imaginary Crimes

Solly Berliner

The Men's Club

The Master

El celo

Duke White

A Beginner's Guide to Endings

Frankie

Un complicato intrigo di donne, vicoli e delitti

Penfield Gruber

Blindside

Rivas

Exposed

Ludwig

The Grand Budapest Hotel

Eion

Hard Matter

Mr. White (archive footage)

Who Do You Think You're Fooling?

Tommy Thomas

Fatal Honeymoon

Al

The Congress

Henry

Eagle's Wing

Self

The Outsider

Nikolaj Bucharin

Caro Gorbaciov

Ponzio Pilato

L'Inchiesta

The Guardian

Prince of Central Park

Zowie

My Sexiest Year

Fingers: A Conversation About Independent Film

Edward Robards

El misterio Galíndez

Self

Mythos Hollywood - Das Geheimnis des Erfolgs

Coleman Buckmaster

That's the Way of the World

Bill Agati

La Voie de l‘ennemi

Live Fast, Die Laughing

Father Johanis

A Farewell to Fools

Mr. Legend

Nemo

Commander Pierce

Moonrise Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Harvey Keitel : À l'ombre des ténèbres

Self

Hello Actors Studio

Salvatore Vitaglia

By the Gun

Himself

A Director's Journey: The Making of 'Red Dragon'

Self

Making 'Taxi Driver'

Hubert Humbolt

Rio Heat

Randall Kane

Joe Baby

Frank Ferretti

Spread

Ken Hood

Welcome to L.A.

Mickey

Off Beat

Che

Dreaming of Julia

Sandoval

La batalla de los tres reyes

Carl

Down Where the Buffalo Go

Mick Boyle

Youth

Theirs

Marpa

Milarepa

Self

Martin Scorsese, l'Italo-Américain

The fugitive

Une pierre dans la bouche

Silvio

Paradox Effect

Self (archive footage)

QT8: The First Eight

Speed

Mother, Jugs & Speed

Self

Dietro gli occhiali bianchi

Tony Romano

Nailed

Self

Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder

Thomas

Grandi cacciatori

Fate

Smiley

The Ridiculous 6

OSS Commander Who Agrees to Deal (voice) (uncredited)

Inglourious Basterds

Ben

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

The Photographer (uncredited)

Brewster McCloud

Angelo Bruno

The Irishman

Self

Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between

(archive footage)

Amazing Stories: The Movie IV

Papi

Chosen

Self

Street Scenes

Archive Footage

Once Upon a Time in Hollyweird

This Ain't Bebop

Imagining America

Mac Schiltz

The Comedian

Gondo (voice)

Isle of Dogs

O Ator (segment "O Milagre")

Rio, Eu Te Amo

Finn O'Brien

The Letter

Bob Fredericks

Madame

Bugsy Siegel

Virginia Hill

Baciami Strega

Self

The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money

Himself

Dieses Jahr in Czernowitz

Ernest Jurgens

La bella Otero

Noe

The Last Man

Priest

Nabarvené ptáče

The Director

Outlaws

Anatoly

First We Take Brooklyn

Demi

Lies We Tell

The Mystery Man

Chasing The Elephant

Sacha

La sposa americana

Self

Martin Scorsese Directs

Leone

Vipera

Abraham

Эсав

Professor Nichols

Fatima

Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty

Miro

Arthur et les Minimoys

Billy

See You Soon

Self

The Ten Commandments of Creativity

Meyer Lansky

Lansky

Self

Scorsese's GoodFellas

Himself (Uncredited)

Get Shorty

Seaman (uncredited)

Pueblo

Soldier (uncredited)

Reflections in a Golden Eye

Roddy

La Mort en direct

General Hunter Blair

Blood on the Crown

Donald Jacques (voice)

Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

El Gringo

Nowhere

Edward Baker

Gandhi of the Month

Self

11 barev ptáčete

Self

The John Garfield Story

Self (archive footage)

Duelling Directors: Ridley Scott & Kevin Reynolds

Self

Location Production Footage: The Last Temptation of the Christ

Jerry

A Memory of Two Mondays

Merchant

The Baker

Self (archive footage)

Quentin Tarantino: From a Movie Buff to a Hollywood Legend

Cassidy Whittaker

Laws of Man

Self

Inside 'The Piano'

Private Investigator

Who Killed the Idea?

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

186

Gender

Male

Birthday

1939-05-13

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

هارفي كيتل